Welcome to the Website of Kadampa Buddhism in North Carolina

Ven Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

With lakes, mountains, beaches and beautiful cities, North Carolina is one of the most externally beautiful states in the US where it is easy to find places of external peace and tranquility.

Many people in North Carolina have material success and wealth and the resources to enjoy the external beauty, but still experience unhappiness, dissatisfaction, anger, relationship dificulties, and the pain of disapointment in never finding a happiness that lasts.

Happiness and suffering are both states af mind and cannot be found outside the mind.

Through meditation and training the mind to cultivate real happiness and abandon the causes of unhappiness we can definitely find the lasting peace we long for.

At Kosala Buddhist Center in the Triangle and Vajradhara Center in Charlotte, and Asheville Mahayana Buddhist Center, we offer meditation instruction; teachings on Buddhist view; study programs for different levels of experience; opportunities for Buddhist practice with chanted meditations; and other devotional activities.

You are welcome to visit our centers and drop in to our general meditation classes or chanted meditations. Check the links on the left for classes in your area, and the listings below for upcoming class and workshop dates and times.

Contact and location information.

Because happiness is a state of mind you cannot find it outside your mind. Meditation can help you find it there.

By following very simple instructions you can learn meditation methods that are as powerful today as they were 2500 years ago, to find and build the lasting peace you are looking for.

Through learning and practicing simple meditation methods you can become more calm and peaceful, and cultivate the concentration and wisdom to see the beauty that abides in every person including your self, and every place including your own surroundings.

These inner qualities developed through meditation are your true sources of refuge when the going gets tough, and are the tools that enable you to find and maintain the lasting peace and happiness you are searching for.