First Look: KTC Construction Site Tour

645 West Rich Street,Columbus OH 43215

18 July, 2021

Description

We welcome supporters & friends for a "first look" at the interior & exterior of the new Columbus KTC Meditation Center - still being built! Join us for a 35-minute tour that will take us through the first and second floors of our still-under-construction meditation center.KTC Volunteers will provide insights into the building's features, while KTC's lamas will lead us in prayer and meditation in specific rooms so we can "bless" the new building with our positive wishes! There will be four identical tours stating at 1 PM, 1:45 PM, 2:30 PM and 3:15 PM. Please sign up for only ONE session. And please donate generously when you sign up for your tour! We hope to raise money for our new shrine with this event. Donations of any kind are welcome. Everyone will receive a small gift during the tour. Short on funds and want to attend? Email Lama Kathy at [email protected] and she will register you at no cost. May all beings benefit! Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling is a Meditation Center in Columbus Ohio. Founded in 1977, the center is affiliated with Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery in Woodstock, NY. Columbus KTC provides a full range of meditation instructions benefitting all ages and backgrounds, using techniques from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as from the secular Mindfulness Meditation tradition.   For the last 40 years, KTC has specialized in offering FREE meditation instruction to the public; over the years, literally thousands of people in Central Ohio have learned to meditate for free at Columbus KTC. Our meditation instructors also have visited schools, prisons and social service agencies and taugh meditation to school children, bankers, nurses and social workers. KTC offers free meditation instruction to the public most Sundays at 10 AM at its current temporary location at the Congregation Tifereth Israel synagogue in Downtown Columbus.  KTC's meditation center in Columbus' Franklinton neighborhood was lost to an arson fire in 2016, but plans are in the works to rebuild and return to Franklinton in the coming year.