“The world will be balanced when we are balanced”
World Peace Stupa Project
Program
The new Winterswijk Stupa Center will host a rich array of programs for individuals and groups, buddhist students and lay people, company teams and private citizens.
From August 2025 the Stupa Center will welcome you for:
Drop-In Visits
Enjoy morning meditation, circumambulate the World Peace Stupa and feel its remarkable power to protect and calm your innermost mind.
We will also be developing hikes and bicycle trails starting and ending at the World Peace Stupa
Weekend Retreats
Will feature themes such as Selfcare, Balance, Inner Peace, Happy-Healthy-Holy, Meditation, Compassion, Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga, Buddhist Psychology, Caring and Time Space Knowledge vision.
All weekends will be taught by authorized instructors. Some programs will be in English, german, dutch or a combination of European languages.
Open to all, private lodging and delicious vegetarian meals provided.
Midweek individual retreats
The periods between weekends are ideally suited for personal retreats or tailor-made solo sabbaticals which include:
Daily breakfast and dinner and daily early morning relaxation training. During the day feel free to meditate, do hikes, bike rides, read or write in the calming presence of the meditation garden or the stupa.
Optional (paid) extra’s incluce:
private coaching, massage, private meditation classes.
Midweek Seminars for Company Teams
Special tested 1-3 day team gatherings designed to improve workplace quality and team spirit and skills. In collaboration with MindingWork. Seminars include:
Transforming Stress into Wellbeing
Open to all, private lodging and delicious vegetarian meals provided.
Path Programs
There will also be long-term programs (1-3 years in length) which will be offered in close collaboration with the Nyingma City Centers in Amsterdam and Cologne. Weekly classes in the city centers in person or online will be completed with retreats at the country center. Path Programs will include: Kum Nye Tibetan Relaxation (1-5 years) Buddhist Psychology/Understanding Mind (1-5 years) Buddhist Study and Practice (1-5 years) Caring (1-2 years) Tibetan Language and Literature (1-3 years)
Longer Retreats (1 week to 3 months)
In partnership with other TNMC organizations, we plan to offer extended Buddhist retreats (1 week to 3 months) with qualified teachers, such as:
Ngondro Retreats
Human Development Retreat
Lojong Mind Training Retreat
Project Programs
The Stupa Center invites part-time and full time residential volunteers to work on meaningful and important projects including.
Building the World Peace Stupa Europe
Developing a Food Forest annex Meditation Garden
Printing and sewing prayerflags
Clay Stupa Project Europe
Sangha-family weeks or weekends
Last but not least: we like to celebrate our connection with you. Our friends, donors and family will be invited to stay with us several weeks or weekends per year for joyfully working together on gardening, maintenance and projects underway, while enjoying each other’s company and making new friends.
Be the first to hear the detailed planning
The stupa center program will start in September 2025. If you sign up for our newsletter now you can be the first to register for a program that best suits your inner needs.
We are looking forward to welcome you !