Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion

What does it feel like when you engage in a "random act of kindness"? What happens inside you when you reach out to someone with compassion? Can you FEEL it?

We humans are innately compassionate. But as we grow, navigate life, or focus elsewhere, that natural compassion for others outside our family and friends can get a bit dusty.

DGCEC provides the tools for learning to expand this compassion. 

The more we see others "do good" - whether big or small - the more likely we will extend loving-kindness and compassion ourselves. This mirroring effect is well-documented by the Science of Compassion and contemporary neuroscience.

WE ARE DGCEC

DGCEC is both a Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Center and a non-religious Compassion Education Center. We provide a doorway into the practice of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy with rituals, retreats, classes, and teachings that are facilitated by Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal. We are the North American Seat of Drepung Gomang Monastery in India.

The offerings of our Compassion Education Center rest in the teachings of universal human values as shared by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. DGCEC provides classes and events that are non-religious or inter-religious, focused on growing innate compassion, finding a calm center through meditation, expanding your nonviolent communication skills, and exploring just how interconnected we are.  We provide nonviolence symposia for high school students, the internationally renowned Compassion Cultivation Training for adults, as well as "12 Days Toward Peace" for people of all ages.

YOUR SUPPORT

YOUR DONATION helps us empower others with engaged compassion and the great universal human values including nonviolence, tolerance, generosity and interfaith understanding.

Can you help us provide these great compassion-building opportunities?

We thank you for helping us deepen and expand our compassion mission!