Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling is a Meditation Center in Columbus Ohio. Founded in 1977, the center is affiliated with Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery in Woodstock, NY. Columbus KTC provides a full range of meditation instructions benefitting all ages and backgrounds, using techniques from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as from the secular Mindfulness Meditation tradition.   For the last 40 years, KTC has specialized in offering FREE meditation instruction to the public; over the years, literally thousands of people in Central Ohio have learned to meditate for free at Columbus KTC. Our meditation instructors also have visited schools, prisons and social service agencies and taugh meditation to school children, bankers, nurses and social workers. KTC offers free meditation instruction to the public most Sundays at 10 AM at its current temporary location at the Congregation Tifereth Israel synagogue in Downtown Columbus.  KTC's meditation center in Columbus' Franklinton neighborhood was lost to an arson fire in 2016, but plans are in the works to rebuild and return to Franklinton in the coming year.