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Collaborations

Tsogyaling is a small community based meditation center and is committed to working in partnership with other organizations. Current collaborations include:

• Tsogyaling is connected to Namdroling Monastery in South India through Lopon Dechen Rinpoche's relationship with His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and we look forward to inviting other monks and nuns from this foremost Tibetan Buddhist University to join our teaching staff in the future. Both Assistant Teachers, Asang and Nancy Floy have studied with HH Penor Rinpoche at Namdroling as well.
  www.namdroling.org

• Tsogyaling is a member of the Heartwood Center for Body Mind Spirit and partners with the Heartwood Foundation where Lopon Dechen Rinpoche will offer his work with the  sick and dying, especially in the Women and Cancer program which offers free holistic healthcare for low-income women with cancer.  Additionally some of the proceeds from his classes will continue to support the Heartwood Tibet Girls School which provides vocational training and healthcare to older nomad girls in Eastern Tibet. Nancy Floy is the owner and director of the Heartwood Center and Asang and Nancy are board members of the Heartwood Foundation.
  www.heartwoodcenter.com

• Our center collaborates with Shambhala International through board members Charles Kuehner, Lissa Pete and Nancy Floy. Tsogyaling makes regular referrals to the local Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago for their wonderful meditation evenings and vast array of Buddhist classes and programs.
  www.shambhala.org
  chicago.shambhalacenter.org

• Tsogyaling shares a close relationship with Pema Karpo, the Buddhist center of Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche, and dear friend of Lopon Dechen Rinpoche. These two great teachers studied together at Namdroling Monastery. We are especially grateful for Khenpo Gawang's wise guidance and his blessings for our center, as well as giving us our beautiful name and we look forward to him joining us from time to time as a visiting teacher.
  www.pemakarpo.org

• Our team is working with the nursing staff of Midwest Hospice and Palliative Care Center through our connection with Tsogyaling Board Member Gerry Gorman. Lopon Kunchog Dechen has been invited to teach there when he arrives. We are teaching the practice of meditation to assist the nurses in their very difficult work with patients who are at the end of their lives and experiencing what is referred to as "terminal agitation".
  www.midwestpalliativeandhospicecarecenter.org
  

• Tsogyaling also collaborates with many local healthcare organizations, as well as schools, churches, synagogues and temples. We are a member of the Tibetan Alliance of Chicago and the Buddhist Council of the Midwest.
  

• We are grateful to the special visitors who have attended our mindful meditation classs during their visits to Evanston and Chicago. Guests have included Beth Kanji Goldring, an American Zen nun, who shared news of her work with the Brahmavihara (Cambodia AIDS Project) in Phnom Penh.
  

• Northwestern University

• Evanston Township High School

• We are grateful to Grotto Communications, Inc., a local, Evanston-based marketing communications company, for creating our beautiful web site and other materials to promote the center and its services.
  www.grottocom.com