Osel Shen Phen Ling

09/23/2025

We’re back this fall with another session of Mediation 101! Great for complete beginners or anyone looking to restart their practice. Join us starting next Tuesday at 7pm in Downtown Missoula.

03/12/2025

Upcoming local teachings with Chamtrul Rinpoche! Coordinated by Justin Kirkwood

08/27/2024

We are offering our Meditation 101 class on Tuesdays this October. Free to attend and open to anyone regardless of skill level or experience. We explore a variety of meditation techniques for helping calm and transform our minds. All classes take place at our meditation center in Downtown Missoula!

08/21/2024

“Hiking and trekking depend on the Middle Way. You can’t try to go too slow. You can’t try to go too fast. Sometimes there are challenges and pain, but also great joy!” Geshe Thubten Sherab

08/17/2024

“When we have less attachment, we have less worry, less fear.” Geshe Sherab discussing renunciation this evening. Two more sessions of Three Principal Aspects tomorrow beginning at 10am MDT and a third on Sunday. Link in our bio for Zoom registration.

08/15/2024

Geshe Sherab teaches tomorrow in Missoula! His first visit since 2019. Hope you can join us for this amazing opportunity. Zoom option available. Registration link in our bio. Walk ins welcome!

08/05/2024

Zoom Option added for Geshe Sherab! If you’re unable to attend our in-person teachings in Missoula on the Three Principal Aspects August 16-18, we now have a remote option available. Visit our Square online store and select the online registration option. FPMT North America

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07/29/2024

We are pleased to finally announce IN-PERSON teachings with Geshe Thubten Sherab on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path to enlightenment, August 16, 17, and 18 in Missoula! The Three Principal Aspects - Renunciation, Bodhicitta, and Wisdom - are one of many ways of packaging the Buddha's Mahayana teachings. Join us for this wonderful opportunity. Register today at our Square Online Store. Donations cover expenses and teacher offering. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. DM us for info.

04/15/2024

We are pleased to offer virtual teachings with Don Handrick on the lamrim text Extracting the Meaning of This Life: Yeshe Tsöndrü’s The Essential Nectar.

The “Stages of the Path” (Tibetan: lamrim) literature is one of the great treasures of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in that it clearly delineates the crucial points for meditating on the path to enlightenment. In this course, we will explore the topics of the lamrim as they are set out in a popular and practical set of verses, The Essential Nectar, composed by the eighteenth-century scholar Yeshe Tsöndrü. This text reveals the essence of the path to enlightenment, instructing us in how we can extract the great value of this human life and realize our ultimate potential.

The Essential Nectar text is one that Lama Zopa Rinpcohe recommended frequently for his students to study and use, and the format of verses makes it quite practical as a method to do lamrim meditation.

Join us for virtual teachings with Don Hanrick on The Essential Nectar:

Tuesdays 7:00pm - 8:30pm MDT
April 16 – July 16
All teachings on Zoom (registration required)

Register at the link in our bio.
Donations are requested but nobody will be refused access due to lack of funds.

09/13/2023

It’s all about karma! Join us and the wonderful Don Handrick for a weekly class Mahayana Mind Training - Wheel of Sharp Weapons on Zoom, Tuesdays 6:30pm-8:30pm Mountain Time, Sept 19-Dec. 5. Hit the link below to register. https://oselshenphenling.square.site/product/mahayana-mind-training-wheel-of-sharp-weapons-w-don-handrick/22?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

05/01/2023

A reminder that due to travel Robina will not be teaching this Tuesday. We have rescheduled the final Zoom session for 5:30pm MDT on May 12. Tara meditation and prayers for Rinpoche’s swift return tonight at 7pm at the Center.

04/18/2023

Continuing daily for 49 days.

To create the causes for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s swift return and continued guidance, Shantideva Center will host daily online practices from 12:30-1pm EDT (US Eastern time) for 49 days until May 31st.