Bodhisattva Circle

Healthy Mahayana Buddhism

Bodhisattva Circle is a community of practitioners founded and taught by Holly Gayley and Loden Nyima in 2018. It’s purpose is to foster a genuine, healthy, and responsive Mahayana drawing from classic sources engaged in contemporary society. We see the Bodhisattva path as a joyful, empowering, and ever-expanding opportunity to live true to form, and to be the change we want to see until all living beings are free.

Our cornerstone is a two to four week retreat each year called Mahayana Summer Seminar, where we join intensive meditation practice, study, and community. We offer other events throughout the year as well.

We are preceptors for the Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows, and have begun to offer them in retreats.

Mahayana Seminar 2025

Save the dates, 8 - 20 September at Rocky Mountain EcoDharma Center in Colorado

More info coming soon!

Topics of retreats and courses have included:

  • Four Noble Truths and the Foundational Yana

  • Living Wisdom and Compassion: The Six Paramitas

  • Living Wisdom and Compassion: Lojong (Mind Training)

  • Empowering the Buddha Within: Buddha Nature and the Five Buddha Families

  • Prajnaparamita, the Perfection of Wisdom

  • Recovering Wholeness: The Sacred Feminine and Masculine in Buddhism

  • The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva

  • Sadhanas of Tara, Avalokiteshvara, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Chod