About Pullahari Retreat Center
Pullahari Retreat Center was established in 1993, growing out of the inspiration to practice the core contemplative practices that both Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin imparted. It was established under the guidance of the Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, and blessed by him in 1996. Pullahari serves the Satdharma community as a retreat space for group and solitary retreats throughout the year.

Located in the hills above Cayucos, CA, on the Central Coast of California, the forty acres of Pullahari provide a protected environment which has been purified by the practice that has taken place there. With an elegant shrine room, a main house, a luxurious retreat cabin (Mr. Sweeney’s residence when he is there), and two newly built tent platforms, Pullahari can support up to thirty people for a group retreat.

The Seat of Naropa
The following Text is an edited excerpt from a talk given at a dathun by Patrick Sweeney on June 26, 1999 at Pullahari Retreat Center, in Cayucos, CA.

This retreat center is named Pullahari because of my relationship with the Vajra Regent. When he gave me the book The Life of Naropa, he explained to me how my fundamental neurosis matched Naropa’s fundamental neurosis, and how my path would be similarly tortuous, and it would be a path of devotion in a very bizarre way. If you read the life of Naropa, you’ll see just how bizarre it got for him. Pullahari became Naropa’s spiritual seat in India, and it was the place where he finally settled down. It was also where Naropa passed his lineage on to Marpa. Similarly, Pullahari is the place where I decided I had better settle down and really plant the stake of dharma, plant this lineage here, right on this seat, right in this room.

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