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12–15 November 2026 · Colville

There's No Karma We Can't Purify: A Vajrasattva Retreat

Three days at the Mahamudra Centre on the Coromandel with Robina Courtin, on karma as what the Dalai Lama calls self-creation: everything we think, do and say shapes the person we become. The retreat looks at taking responsibility for thought and action, and at reading one's own life without fear rather than as a run of good and bad luck.

12Novemberto November 15, 2026
Residential retreatThu 04:00 PM to Sun 01:00 PM
FormatResidential retreat
PeriodAutumn 2026
PriceFrom €500
CapacityOpen
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There's No Karma We Can't Purify: A Vajrasattva Retreat

Three days at the Mahamudra Centre on the Coromandel with Robina Courtin, on karma as what the Dalai Lama calls self-creation: everything we think, do and say shapes the person we become. The retreat looks at taking responsibility for thought and action, and at reading one's own life without fear rather than as a run of good and bad luck.

Teacher

Meet Ven. Robina Courtin.

Portrait of Ven. Robina Courtin

Ven. Robina Courtin

Robina Courtin was born in Melbourne in 1944 and ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1978, as a student of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She has worked for their Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala magazine and director of the Liberation Prison Project, which supports Buddhist practice among prisoners. She teaches Buddhist courses and retreats internationally, and her life and work are the subject of the documentaries "Chasing Buddha" and "Key to Freedom".

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Systematic philosophical study, monastic scholarship and tantric practice.

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Location

Colville, New Zealand

Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity

2183 Main Colville Road
Colville, New Zealand

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