Table of Contents

Where is all this warmth coming from?
1. Talk by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

A Very Good Year
2. Letter from Karen Wilding

Statement of Financial Activities
3. 2005 & 2006

Curageous Women, Fearless Living
4. Cancer Retreat

Appreciation, Balance and Service
5. Letter from Allan & Doria Cross

Development Initiatives
6. Scholarships, The Great Stupa, Resident Community, Environmental Stewardship, and the Rigden Lodge

What's in a Building
7. Letter from Jeff Waltcher

Friends of Shambhala Mountain
8. Thank you to our 2005 donors

Acknowledgements
9. Staff, Presenters & Volunteers


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A Very Good Year

Photo of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Sakyong Mipham and
Karen Wilding
2005 WAS A VERY BIG YEAR FOR THE SHAMBHALA COMMUNITY. We welcomed Tsemo Tseyang and the Ripa family, Rigden Abhisheka and innumerable first-time participants to programs worldwide. As the Sakyong told us in 2001, the completion of The Great Stupa would change Shambhala. We have certainly seen this to be the case. Since then, with the Sakyong's encouragement and guidance, the vision of Trungpa Rinpoche inspiring us and overwhelming support from our community, Shambhala Mountain Center has experienced tremendous growth. We expanded our leadership team with the arrival of Allan Cross, our new executive director, and his family, and our long-time director, Jeff Waltcher, has assumed his new position as CEO of Development.

Building on the momentum of the Center's previous years' developments, we broke ground on the now nearly completed Rigden Lodge and made great strides in supporting our resident staff through the purchase of a group of residences adjacent to the Center known as the “Monroe Property.” We are also excited to be breaking ground this year on a new environmentally designed staff residence. The continued expansion of our facilities and staff greatly reflects the relevance of Shambhala Mountain Center to not only the Front Range community, but also the world.

We continue to fill our programs and strive to create further opportunities for the public to connect to this extraordinary place and its mission. Through programs like this summer's women's cancer retreat and the highly anticipated visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in September, we are making great strides in our outreach efforts. And, as always, we are continuing our advanced Buddhist programming throughout the year and look forward to the Sakyong's Dzogchen retreat starting in late June.

Your support for Shambhala Mountain has created the foundation for our growth. For your part in this visionary endeavor I thank you and invite you to stay involved through your continued financial support, visits to The Great Stupa, participation in and staffing of programs, and your direct feedback. As the Sakyong said to us this winter, “The transformation we are accomplishing at [the Center]...is one of the barometers for our community's health and raises our windhorse.” We are on this magical path together. Thank you for growing with us.

Keren Wilding's Signature
Karen Wilding, Chair
Shambhala Mountain Board of Directors

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