Yeshe Nyingpo Denver conducts regular Tsoks on Guru Rinpoche, Shakyamuni, and Dakini days.  Group Ngondro practice is offered each Sunday at 9:00 am.  Beginning meditation and other classes are offered at various times during the year.

 
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Lucille Schaible, An American Original

Lucille Schaible, also known as Lucille Cedercrans, was an American original. Born in Canada in 1921, she did not receive more than eighth grade education. By the late 1960’s, she was training graduate students at the University of Michigan’s Institute of Social Research. In Ann Arbor, she was also a principal in the Educational Change Team, a project within ISR devoted to bringing race and gender equality to K-12 schools.

Lucille was a self-taught and self-realized meditation master. As she began her process of realization during her early twenties, she soon realized that the source of the wisdom that she was accessing was from Asia. She thought of it as Trans-Himalayan Wisdom (Tibet was unknown to her then), and, if required to personally identify her religion, would have considered herself Buddhist, even though she had no formal training in Buddhism at the time.

Recognizing that the spiritual thought-form of North America was largely conditioned by Christianity, she developed meditation training materials, lessons and writings which presented Eastern wisdom and concepts in a form that the American audience could understand and embrace. One of these, the Nature of Soul 40 lesson series, was widely taught. At the same time, she formed meditation groups throughout the United States.

In 1965, she temporarily abandoned her meditation work. She arranged for others to lead her groups and moved to Ann Arbor to pursue efforts that relied on her skills but had more social action as a focus. By 1971, however, she again formed a meditation group. In 1973, she was introduced to the Tibet Buddhists that were beginning to arrive in North America. From the first meetings, the Tibetan teachers recognized her as a meditation master. She adopted Tibetan Buddhism as a more comfortable fit for herself and pursued it as her personal practice as well as the teachings that she was asked to pass on.

She at no time renounced her former presentation, but neither did she actively pursue it as a practice or as teachings that she gave. Rather, she encouraged those for whom it remained congenial to continue their practice and study.

Lucille was central in the founding of the Nyingma Institute of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Meditation Center in Boulder, Colorado in the mid 1970’s. In 1978, she became Spiritual Director of the center, Udiyan Maitreya Kosha, created by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. UMK later changed its name to Yeshe Nyingpo Denver and continues under the direction of His Holiness Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche.

Lucille died on June 21, 1984, in Denver, Colorado surrounded by her students. At the moment of her death, on a clear and sunny day, a thunderclap was heard throughout the region.