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Help Build a Permanent Home for Wisdom, Compassion, and Belonging

Everyone deserves a harmonious environment that provides a supportive space for education, peace, and well-being in community. In such a place, financial hardship does not close the door to learning, research, or contemplative practice. A place where you, too, can feel at home.

Your generosity can help build that place. Chung Huong Institute is a rare Buddhist nun-led nonprofit serving people of all backgrounds through Buddhist wisdom, contemplative education, and partnerships creating dialogue with neuroscience and psychology.

Thanks to our donors, we acquired more than six acres of buildable land in Crestone, Colorado. In this peaceful mountain landscape, a permanent sanctuary for learning, practice, and community is within reach. We are inviting our community, our friends, and everyone who believes in the transformative power of wisdom and compassion to help make this vision a reality.

We need your help to make home a reality NOW. Our current rental arrangement is coming to an end. Meanwhile, planning, permits, site preparation, and construction all require time and resources. Your gift today will do more than bring us closer to our $350,000 goal. It will help us begin the work on time to establish a permanent home before our current space becomes unavailable.

A Vision That Has Already Begun. Since our founding in 2023, we have reached over 43,000 learners. Our programs have been free or donation-based because we believe access to meaningful education and contemplative practice should be available regardless of financial means. Inspired by the vision of the Most Venerable Thích Tuệ Sỹ, we are committed to preserving Buddhist wisdom with care and integrity while making it accessible and meaningful to people living in today’s world. We offer opportunities to learn across Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana traditions while grounding these ancient teachings with contemporary science.

But a Vision Needs a Home. For several years, we have carried out this work without a permanent center. Now, that opportunity is within reach.

The Land Is Here. The Community Is Here. What Is Needed Now is to Build a Home That Will Allow This Work To Continue And Grow. A permanent home will help this work continue and allow more people to take part. If you’re tired of extremely costly retreats, workshops, and classes, then consider making a donation now so that even the most impoverished have a chance at high-quality education.

Your support will help us:

  • Keep learning accessible: Sustain free and donation-based education and expand opportunities for marginalized and underserved communities.
  • Create a place of refuge and belonging: Develop a place where people of all ages can study, practice, and support one another.
  • Deepen understanding of the mind: Give the Mind-Brain Contemplative Lab a dedicated home for research connecting Buddhist wisdom, neuroscience, and psychology.
  • Carry wisdom into the future: Train contemplative scholar-practitioners and translate Buddhist works into English, including writings by the Most Venerable Thích Tuệ Sỹ.

Our $350,000 building goal covers these estimated costs:

  • Planning, permits, and approvals —> $15,000
  • Site work and contingency —> $25,000
  • Well and septic —> $35,000
  • Solar and building systems —> $70,000
  • Construction —> $205,000

Behind these costs are the people this home can serve: Someone seeking steadiness during a difficult season, a student eager to learn, a practitioner who could not otherwise afford a retreat, and future generations discovering teachings that might otherwise remain beyond their reach.

The future of accessible education begins with you. Will You Help Us Build It? Will you help create a place where wisdom can be studied, compassion can be cultivated, and people can come together to learn and grow? Will you help ensure that Buddhist wisdom can continue to be preserved and shared while remaining in meaningful dialogue with the modern world?

Together, we can turn more than six acres of land into a living center of learning, practice, community, and service. Your gift, of any size, brings us closer to a permanent home and helps move construction forward while there is still time to complete it before our March 2027 target. Please give today and share this campaign with someone who believes in accessible education, compassion, and human flourishing.

Please give today and share this campaign with someone who believes in accessible education, compassion, and human flourishing.

EIN: 93-4977637 | Colorado Entity ID: 20248096541 | Maryland Charity ID: 5221

We invite you to become one of our first founding supporters and help bring this rare and exquisite journey to life.

Thank you to all our generous donors so far. A full list of supporters for this campaign can be seen here.
If you are interested in donating more than $20k, please do so here.