Membership of De-Tong Ling Buddhist Retreat Centre

Membership is at the very heart of our Centre. It is one of the most popular and practical ways that friends and supporters of De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre can provide substantial support. As well as becoming part of a developing Buddhist community - dedicated to providing the most conducive conditions for Dharma practice and meditation - our members are the financial backbone of the centre, enabling us to meet the costs of keeping DTL functioning. Every day, DTL offers those seeking a meaningful spiritual life an opportunity to further this goal. As a centre member, your contribution will enhance our ability to offer them this opportunity. As our membership grows, so too does our ability to run group retreats, improve our services and invite teachers.

Our spiritual director, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, said:

"A Mahayana Dharma Centre is a place which provides education on how to develop great compassion towards all living beings and which causes others to practice and actualize this compassion in their heart. Compassion never allows harm to be given to others and is only to benefit others, so a Dharma Centre becomes a very important tool to bring peace in the world and in the minds of numberless sentient beings."

Application for membership can be made by emailing the secretary

The yearly membership fee is $60.

Membership Contributions & Donations

These can be made by MasterCard or Visa via our secure online donation facility or by cheque, payable to De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre. Contributions are used to:

• Maintain the centre, administration and communication
• Building improvements
• Subsidize Sangha members in retreat
• Invite and support visiting teachers

Please Donate Here

As well as supporting the centre, a portion of each member's contribution supports the global activities of the FPMT (and indirectly His Holiness the Dalai Lama).

FPMT activities include:

• Comprehensive Buddhist education programs making the dharma available for people in many countries.
• Charitable works such as healing and hospice work.
• Dharma publishing, including many books for free distribution.
• Support for the poor, destitute and the dying in the third world.
• Support for Buddhist monks and nuns, both western and Tibetan.