Powa Prayers for the Recently Deceased
Everyone Welcome – Free
Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers. Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
Once a month the Center engages in a lovely ritual practice on behalf of those who have recently deceased (this practice is appropriate for any sentient being, including family, friends and animals). The practice entails a transference of consciousness, whereby through chanted prayers and mantras, the participants assist in directing the consciousness of the recently deceased directly to the Pure Land.
If you wish, you may bring a small white offering (food item, candle or flower).
Tara Puja | Green Tara Chanted Prayers
Everyone Welcome – Free
Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers. Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
Held on or near the 8th of the month. Please check our on-line calendar for the exact date and time.
At Kadampa Centers worldwide, the eighth of the month is Tara Day. Tara is a female Buddha, whose name means “Rescuer. She is the embodiment of swift compassion. If we rely upon Tara sincerely and with strong faith, she will protect us from all obstacles and fulfill all our wishes. Everyone is welcome and invited to join us for Tara’s chanted prayer practice, Liberation from Sorrow.
Medicine Buddha Prayers for Healing
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Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers. Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
Medicine Buddha is a Buddha Doctor whose function is to release living beings from outer and inner sickness by bestowing blessings upon them. By relying upon Medicine Buddha sincerely, we can be cured of heavy physical and mental disease, find release from the internal pain of the three poisons – attachment, anger and ignorance – and receive protection from many other dangers and obstacles. Moreover, by practicing the Medicine Buddha Sadhana sincerely, we receive a special power of body, speech and mind, which we can then use to help others through healing actions.
HEART JEWEL
Everyone welcome – Free
Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers. Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
The Heart Jewel practice lies at the very core of this tradition of Buddhism, and is the best way to help develop your spiritual practice. If you are trying to improve your good qualities and reduce your negativities, this practice is the most effective way to receive all the help you need to make swift progress. There will be a silent period for personal meditation.
Heart Jewel is a Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with the condensed sadhana of his Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden and a short meditation on Buddha’s Lamrim teachings. This puja includes two practices. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri. By relying upon this practice, we can purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, we will naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom.The second practice is a method for relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. Through this, we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our Dharma realizations.
WISHFULFILLING JEWEL
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Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers. Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
A special Guru yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa’s tradition combined with a brief practice of relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. This practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Buddha Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for meditation on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Then we make prayers to the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. Through these prayers we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
Wishfulfilling Jewel Puja with Tsog Offering
This puja includes a tsog offering (this is a beautiful table set with an assortment of food,flower or candle offerings) so you may bring a small offering (for example candy, candle, flowers) with you if you wish.
Wishfulfilling Jewel Prayers with Meditation
There is 15 minutes of meditation time in the prayers. We can use the meditation time to deepen our experience of the stages of the Path to Enlightenment as presented in The New Meditation Handbook and Modern Buddhism.
OFFERING TO THE SPIRITUAL GUIDE
Everyone Welcome – Free
Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers. Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
The special Guru yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra, which also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path to enlightenment. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, wisdom, and spiritual power naturally increase. The practice of relying upon a Spiritual Guide, or ‘Guru Yoga’, is the root of the spiritual path and the foundation of all spiritual attainments. Guru yoga is a special method for receiving the blessings of our Spiritual Guide. In Kadampa Buddhism, Guru Yoga is practiced in association with Je Tsongkhapa, an emanation of the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. Although the main practice is reliance upon the Spiritual Guide, it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Offering To The Spiritual Guide Puja with Tsog Offering
Held on the 10 and the 25th of each month – please check calendar for exact date and times. This puja includes a tsog offering (this is a beautiful table set with an assortment of food,flower or candle offerings) so you may bring a small offering (for example candy, candle, flowers) with you if you wish.
Melodious Drum Victorious in all Directions
Everyone welcome – Free
Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers.
Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
The extensive fulfilling and restoring ritual of the Dharma Protector, the great king Dorje Shugden, in conjunction with Mahakala, Kalarupa, Kalindewi and other Dharma Protectors.
The extensive sadhana, or “method of attainment,” for fulfilling our commitment to rely on the Dharma Protector and to practice Lamrim, Lojong, and Mahamudra, and for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments.This puja includes a tsog offering (this is a beautiful table set with an assortment of food,flower or candle offerings) so you may bring a small offering (for example candy, candle, flowers) with you if you wish
QUICK PATH TO GREAT BLISS
Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment required to attend.
Free. Prayer booklets available for use during the prayers.
Please check our on-line calendar for date and time.
In this puja, we will use the sadhana (prayer book), Quick Path to Great Bliss, which was composed by the great Lama Phabongkha Rinpoche. Compared to other Highest Yoga Tantra sadhanas it is not very long, but it contains all the essential practices of Secret Mantra. To practice successfully we should first receive the empowerment of Venerable Vajrayogini and then study the authentic instructions on the practice such as those found in the book New Guide to Dakini Land by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
Held once a month – please check our on-line calendar for exact date and time.
