Retreats schedule

Upcoming Retreats

One Year Retreat for Dedicated Practitioners Fall 2024

Lama Mark Webber (Lama Gyaltsen) and Laurel Jacobson have announced they will be going into deep retreat for one year in the fall of 2024.

25th Annual Summer Retreat: Mid July to Mid August

Crystal Mountain Society is very pleased to announce that for the 25th year it will be hosting a summer retreat on Galiano Island. Lama Mark Webber will be in the midst of a one year retreat but has graciously offered to bestow empowerments and occasional classes throughout the month. Additional classes and guidance will be provided by his students. As topics, dates, costs and location become firm, we will send out an announcement with the registration details.

For Lama Mark Webber’s  European Teaching Schedule, please go here.

Past Retreats

Live Streaming of Lho Ontul Rinpoche's Cremation Ceremony

January7th, 2023 at 3:30pm, the official cremation ceremony in Tso Pema, India, will be live streamed via the Wogmin Thubten Shedrub Ling Facebook Page. For the full schedule please click below.

Je Gampopa’s The Jewel Ornament of Liberation

A Two-Months Commentary and Retreat Guidance by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber). Lama Mark Webber will give a survey of Je Gampopa’s famous Jewel Ornament of Liberation, thereby giving out contemplations, meditations and life advice. March-May, 2022

Annual Summer Retreat

For the past 24 years, Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber) has been teaching, leading meditation and guiding practitioners on the Crystal Mountain forest retreat property on Galiano Island during an annual summer retreat.

An Abhidhamma Transmission, Study & Retreat

The Abhidhamma (Pali for “Higher Laws” or “Higher Phenomena”, Sanskrit: Abhidharma) is one of the three-baskets (collections) of the Buddha’s teachings. This four months retreat is a transmission as Lama Mark Webber received it from the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche. Sep 2019 - Feb 2020