Our center began with a visit from Lama Kathy Wesley in 2003. Within a couple of weeks of her inspiring trip to Erie, a sangha was meeting that later became the Erie Karma Kagyu Study Group.

In December 2007, the study group became Erie KTC, officially affiliated as a center with Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in Woodstock, NY. The Karma Kagyu lineage is grounded in Tibetan Buddhism and the head of the lineage is His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje.

Erie KTC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to offering the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) to anyone with an interest.