Overlooking a secluded valley on the remote L'Escandorgue plateau in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, Lerab Ling is Rigpa's main international center. Founded in 1991, it offers a regular program of retreats and weekend courses, centered around the three-month summer retreats. Lerab Ling has been blessed by visits by many eminent Tibetan masters, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, H.H. Sakya Trizin, Kyabjé Penor Rinpoche, Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche and Kyabjé Jikmey Phuntsok. A project is underway to build a traditional Tibetan temple at Lerab Ling, which will accommodate the Study College, a library and a collection of sacred objects and works of art.

Set on the cliffs of the Beara peninsula in the west of Ireland, looking out over the Atlantic ocean, Dzogchen Beara is the setting for Rigpa's long-term or secluded retreats, including closed one-year intensive retreats that lead to the traditional three-year retreat. As well as holding public courses and seminars, Dzogchen Beara also serves as a center of activity for the Spiritual Care education and training program.

Rigpa USA has launched a major effort to establish a Center for Wisdom and Compassion in North America to preserve and make available the wealth of teachings from the Buddhist tradition of Tibet, as openly and widely as possible, and in forms most attuned to the lives and needs of modern men and women. The Center for Wisdom and Compassion is envisioned as a retreat facility in a beautiful natural setting, in a tranquil and accessible location close to New York City. The center's activities will enable the unique wisdom culture of Tibet, all but destroyed in its native land, to be transplanted and take root in North America.