Lama Adam Shows Us Around the KTC Rebuilding Site

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This past week, our associate resident teacher Lama and Adam Berner took a short walk around our construction site. He did a little video showing how the work is progressing, and encourages us to keep the project going through donation.


Right now your donations count DOUBLE as we are continuing our “$25,000 Challenge” through Losar Sunday. Feb. 14. All donations up to $25,000 are being doubled by generous donors. Or, consider donating through our KTC Losar (New Year) Raffle. Raffle ticket donations will be doubled too!


You can make an immediate donation here: https://columbusktc.org/rebuild/

You can connect to the Raffle here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrqmauIwKKbDlFhSHD1nUUU7CZmMH42JE2avY7lXjr5ckCpg/viewform

May all beings benefit!

Chant with Us This Sunday to Observe 5 Years Since the Fire

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This coming Sunday, January 31, is the 5th Anniversary of the Columbus KTC Fire – the arson blaze that destroyed our center and made us “dharma nomads,” conducting our meditations and classes in rented spaces all over town. 

To commemorate the event and make powerful aspirations for the future of our community, KTC will sponsor a special “Look to the Future” Chenrezig chant on Zoom at 10 AM Sunday Jan. 31, 2021.  We hope you will join us! 

Our goal is to have as many people as possible in the “Virtual Shrine Room” for this puja. We don’t think we can “break” Zoom, but it would be gratifying to “fill” the room.   

There will be brief introductory remarks by KTC Director Kim Miracle and then the chanting of Chenrezig/Amitabha prayers. You can find the prayers on the KTC Dharma Downloads page.

Sponsorships – if you would like to sponsor our “Look to the Future” Chenrezig chant, you can go to our PayPal Donation page.

Donations of any amount are welcome and will be MATCHED as part of our “$25,000 Matching Challenge” rebuilding campaign.   

Our new building is going up rapidly at the site of the old, and we rejoice together at what our sangha has accomplished.

May all beings benefit!

Buddha Rupa, Guru Rinoche Rupa, Treasure Vase, Prayer Wheel and More in KTC’s Exciting Losar Raffle!

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Columbus KTC’s new building is going up on our property in East Franklinton. Foundation and lower floors are in, walls are rising and the roof and cupola are watching over drivers on the Ohio Route 315 expressway.

Meanwhile, we are still working to “close the gap” and raise the last $200,000 needed to complete Basic Construction of our building. To help the fundraising – and to give our sangha friends a chance to obtain some beautiful shrine objects for their home – we’re holding a raffle of some very special items, culminating in a drawing on Losar, Tibetan New Year.

The KTC New Year’s Raffle will feature an impressive gold statue of Standing Guru Rinpoche, called ““Guru Who is Supreme Among the Great,” which is said to bring great auspiciousness. There also will be a gilded 8-inch statue of the Buddha Shakyamuni, filled with mantras and relics and consecrated by Khenpo Ugyen Tenzin. There also will be a large wooden prayer wheel with millions of mantras inside, and a gold-color treasure vase.

Full list of items (with photos) is below. 

TIckets are $15 each, or four for $50.

Here’s how to enter:

Step 1: Click here to order tickets using our Google Raffle Ticket form.

Step 2: Use the “Donate” button on KTC’s PayPal Donation page, and donate $15 for each ticket – or $50 for four tickets.

We are using the HONOR SYSTEM for ticket sales. Please submit only the number of tickets to match your donation.  Entries will be checked before the drawing takes place.

DEADLINE for SALES is 12 Midnight (Eastern Time) Saturday Feb. 13.

Drawing will be held during the 11:30 AM Dharma Talk on “Losar Sunday,” Feb. 14.

Enter now – and thank you for your generosity to Columbus KTC. May all beings benefit!

Tickets $15 each; four tickets for $50.

Losar Raffle Items – 2021

Click here to see photos of each item. 

Buddha Rupa – 8 Inches tall, gilded with gold-painted face; filled and consecrated by Khenpo Ugyen Tenzin

Gold-Color Treasure Vase – 5 Inches tall 3.5 inches wide, Gold color with inset silver color medallion

Large Gold Statue of Standing Guru Rinpoche – 12 ¾ inches tall (16 in. including wand) with cushioned box.

Small Gold Statue of Standing Guru Rinpoche – 4.5 inches tall with cushioned box.

Beautiful Wooden Prayer Wheel – 9 ¾  inches tall, comes with carrying bag and cushioned box.

Medicine Buddha Thangka – Beautiful thangka 34 x 23 inches in size and honoring Medicine Buddha.

Wall Hanging of Seed Syllable – Peaceful colors, quality cloth, 33 x 23.5 inches in size.


Book – Dharma King: The Life of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa in Images, “Produced under the direct guidance of the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje,Dharma King: The Life of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa in Images commemorates the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa’s contribution to the practice and study of Buddhism around the world, as well as his preservation of one of Tibetan Buddhisms oldest lineages, the Karma Kagyu” (KTDPublications.com).

January 17, 2021 Construction Update

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Dharma at work ?!

This week the construction crew poured and “cured” the concrete slab that will be our lower-level floor and started wood framing for our Community Room, which will be in the lower level under the shrine room.

Other photos show the western wall, which was poured and waterproofed, and will soon be topped with steel girders to help create our lobby, office and classroom wing.

Meanwhile, a team of lamas, carpenters and a draftsman is working with our project management team to create plans for our new shrine. We are still raising money to help “fill in” the $525,000 shortfall in our construction budget.

We’ve raised $325,000 so far, and are getting closer every day to our goal. You can donate funds here or recite prayers for us!

Blessing Our New Building with Prosperity: A Collection of Goodness

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It’s been exciting to watch the new Columbus KTC building rise above Rich Street. The roof beams have been set, the cupola placed. Our future meditation hall is taking shape!

Meanwhile, our lamas are collecting the various types of blessings and sacred items needed for a Buddhist temple. The statues are on order; the golden spire for our roof will be designed soon. And next, we are planning to place blessing vases into the ground underneath our foundation.

These Blessing Vases contain relics, fragrant incense and semi-precious gems. They act as an offering to the local spirits to repair any damage we do to the Earth while building our new center, and magnetize prosperity for our sangha in the future.

Recently, when new stupas were built at our Karme Ling Retreat Center in Delhi, NY, the lamas collected jewelry made of silver, gold and gems as part of the stupa project. When we asked KTD President Lama Karma Drodhul if we could do something similar at KTC, he gave approval and encouragement.

So for the next few weeks – until January 15 – we will be collecting donations of gems and jewelry to bless Columbus KTC. Items should be genuine gold or silver, precious or semi-precious stones, pearls, etc. All will be placed beneath the foundation as a blessing.

To get the address for sending gems and jewelry, send an email to lamakathy@columbusktc.org

Deadline is Jan. 15. Thank you for your interest in the KTC project.

May all beings benefit!