The Three Jewels

The Three Jewels Community Center is located in a renovated loft space in the Union Square area of New York City. Three Jewels functions as a meditation, Heart Yoga, Dharma, and Outreach Center for the community. Dharma Classes are always free, as are our Outreach activities, which focuson overcoming the stress of inner-city.
At the Three Jewels you will find a bookshop with gifts and yoga supplies, the Tara Lending Library, yoga, meditation and dharma classes, spiritual study groups along with Three Jewels Outreach Center programs.
The founders and directors of the Three Jewels Outreach Center & Bookstore are all students of the Gelukpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, which began about 500 years ago, and is the tradition of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They have received extensive training in the sacred books of Buddhism from Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, who is the former abbot of Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery, one of the largest in the world. They are all enrolled in or teaching courses of the Asian Classics Institute of New York, a training institute for teachers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism. Staff members are all students at ACI, who volunteer their time.