Diamond Mountain

Plant the teachings in YOUR heart with a deep retreat in Diamond Mountain. Coming Home: Door to the Diamond Way 3.

The Tucson Astronomy Club will be at Diamond Mountain on Tuesday, September 23, at 7:30 PM for a guided Dark Sky viewing. 🌌🔭 Come experience the brilliance of the Milky Way, planets, and constellations in one of Arizona’s most pristine night skies and newest Dark Sky Approved Lodging. This is a free community event —...

The 3nd Ecological Restoration Summit at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center This year’s summit volunteers will create habitat for the endangered Mexican long-nosed bat.

A Deep Retreat Experience. Diamond Mountain and Asian Classics Institute will be offering a new program in April, to start a new series of teachings with Geshe Michael Roach. We will have teachings that will feature new content within each of the Five Houses. Highlights will include emptiness study and meditations from the Classics. We...

Remember the Three Principle Paths? Maybe you do and maybe you don’t. Come join us in a meditation retreat to go deeper into the very foundations of the Buddhist path. We will explore how to integrate and bring alive ideas like the Eight Worldly Thoughts, the four principles of karma/seeds, the benefits of the Wish...

The special sauce that makes Medicine Buddha prayers and mantras work is emptiness! We will fire up our understanding of this important Buddhist idea with our ongoing study of Nagarjuna’s Wisdom, possibly the most important text ever written on emptiness.

Get to know Medicine Buddha and touch the innermost essence with Ven. Gyelse.

Encouraging the rainwater that falls in arid regions to stay on the land, soak into the earth and benefit the plants, animals, and people that co-habitat there. This five-night residential experience includes healthy vegetarian food, lodging in unique eco cottages, two presentations daily from expert speakers, plus optional yoga and meditation. We encourage you to connect...

STUPAS IN THE SILENT DESERT At the next Medicine Buddha/Nagarjuna Retreat (October 20-29, 2023, at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center in Bowie, Arizona), we are excited to announce that we will have the grand opening ceremony for the first of seven stupas planned for Diamond Mountain's multi-year Marble Stupa Project! The stupa is named after the...