Schedule of Events
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Featured Upcoming Event
Event ID: 1826
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teaching, recorded by Kunphen Buddhist Centre, is given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation.
Event details: The Tibetan term ‘Lamrim’ literally meaning ‘the gradual path’ or ‘the stages of the path’, refers both to the graduated path to enlightenment and also the texts which outline such a systematic path. Texts on the subject of Lamrim, outline the entire path to enlightenment, usually within the framework of what are known as the three levels of the path, corresponding to trainees of initial, middling, and great capacities.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. At the time you register there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of Gosok Phuntsok Choeling monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. From the closing registration date of January 3rd, 2022, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
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Featured Upcoming Event
Event ID: 1827
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Advice on how to overcome physical and mental pain from a Buddhist point of view. The teaching draws especially on practices related to the Medicine Buddha, the principal meditational deity in the Buddhist medical tantras.
Event details: Recorded at Sera Mey monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysore, India.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. At the time you register there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of Sera Mey monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysore, India. From the closing registration date of January 3rd, 2022, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
Gompa’s webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free service for the presentation of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. (The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data as on commercial platforms.)
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Event ID: 1829
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The merits accumulated from participating in the Yangdup ritual are regarded as tremendous, not only in terms of generating material wealth but also for increasing health, longevity, and spiritual development. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: The Yangdup ritual is an elaborate prosperity and wealth summoning ceremony traditionally performed once a year in Sera Mey monastery. The rituals invoke the energies of the wealth deities to generate material resources, abundance, and prosperity.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until December 10th, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1828
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This practice is said to bestow great benefit and blessing to all participants – including the clearing away of obstacles to our lives and practice, the overcoming of illness, and the alleviation of negative mental states and depression. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This special event is held annually for five consecutive days, and includes the preparation of an elaborate sand mandala, together with extensive offerings and a fire offering ritual on the last day.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until December 10th, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1827
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Advice on how to overcome physical and mental pain from a Buddhist point of view. The teaching draws especially on practices related to the Medicine Buddha, the principal meditational deity in the Buddhist medical tantras.
Event details: Recorded at Sera Mey monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysore, India.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. At the time you register there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of Sera Mey monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysore, India. From the closing registration date of January 3rd, 2022, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
Gompa’s webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free service for the presentation of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. (The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data as on commercial platforms.)
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1826
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teaching, recorded by Kunphen Buddhist Centre, is given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation.
Event details: The Tibetan term ‘Lamrim’ literally meaning ‘the gradual path’ or ‘the stages of the path’, refers both to the graduated path to enlightenment and also the texts which outline such a systematic path. Texts on the subject of Lamrim, outline the entire path to enlightenment, usually within the framework of what are known as the three levels of the path, corresponding to trainees of initial, middling, and great capacities.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. At the time you register there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of Gosok Phuntsok Choeling monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. From the closing registration date of January 3rd, 2022, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
Gompa’s webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free service for the presentation of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. (The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data as on commercial platforms.)
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1830
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This special Mahakala puja is renowned for its efficacy in giving protection from all kinds of harm; for bestowing the power to overcome life’s struggles; and for eliminating obstacles to success in all endeavours. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This special puja is unique to the Sakya Monastery of Tibet and is held, over eight days, towards the end of alternate lunar years.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until December 6th, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1824
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This special ‘Great Retreat Practice’ is performed each year at Menri Monastery in the ninth Tibetan Lunar month for seven consecutive days and is especially important during the current pandemic. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: Takla Mebar, the Flaming Tiger Deity, is a wrathful manifestation of Tonpa Shenrab Miwo. The Takla Mebar practices are an especially powerful method for healing both outer and inner harmful and malevolent energies and negativities.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until December 3rd, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1825
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This fire puja pacifies obstacles, grants health, fulfills positive wishes, purifies past negative actions, and accumulates great merit for spiritual realization and attainment. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: Vajravarahi (Dorje Pagmo) is a wrathful form of Vajrayogini, associated particularly with the Cakrasamvara Tantra. The fire-offering puja of Vajravarahi is an elaborate and spectacular ritual, comprising offerings, meditation and mantra recitation. There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until December 4th, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1823
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: On these special days, the monks pay homage and make offerings to Drenpa Namkha and perform the practices and mantra recitations related to Drenpa Namkha. Collectively, these practices convey a powerful blessing. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: Drenpa Namkha provides protection from ill fortune, disease, and unhappiness through aspects like the Medicine Buddha and the prosperity deity Zamba Lha. The deity has appeared in human manifestation as a prince in Zhang Zhung and later was born in 718, as a Tibetan, who was a foremost master of the Bon and a supreme practitioner of the primary Bon practices.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until December 1st, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1817
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teaching, recorded by the Office of H.H. the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, is given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation.
Event details: Mahamudra or ‘Great Seal’ is an important meditation tradition that flourished in Tibet. While this tradition is practiced by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, it is particularly associated with the Kagyu lineage, which passed from Maitripa and Naropa, in India, to Marpa Lotsawa, in Tibet. In the Kagyu lineage, Mahamudra is regarded as the highest form of meditation practice. The ‘Five-fold Path of Mahamudra’ is an entire practice of the path to Buddhahood based on the Mahamudra system of the Kagyu school. The five paths are: meditation on bodhicitta, deity yoga, guruyoga, the actual path of Mahamudra, and the concluding dedication of merit.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. At the time you register there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of Drikung Kagyu Jangchubling monastery, Dehradun, India. From the closing registration date of December 20th, 2021, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
Gompa’s webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free service for the presentation of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. (The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data as on commercial platforms.)
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1807
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teaching on Maitreya’s ‘The Ornament of the Sutras’ (Skrt: Mahayanasutralamkara) (Tib: Dodhe Gyen) is given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation; recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India.
Event details: The Mahayanasutralamkara, one of the five works of Maitreya, is known for its detailed treatment of important Mahayana topics such as buddha-nature, refuge in the Three Precious Jewels, the Mahayana paths, and emptiness, the ultimate nature of mind and phenomena.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Donations made related to this event are strictly voluntary and any donations that are made will go to the Tibetan International Digital Library, a project supported by His Holiness. From the closing registration date of December 6th, 2021, onwards, the teaching will continue to be available to Gompa member-supporters from the Gompa Library.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
Gompa’s webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free service for the presentation of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. (The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data as on commercial platforms.)
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1602
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: The first formal discourse which the Buddha Shakyamuni gave following his attainment of buddhahood at Bodh Gaya was on the Four Noble Truths. The investigation and understanding of these four truths are regarded as an indispensable basis for a successful practice of the Buddhist path. [This event was originally webcast in March 2021 as Event ID 1578.]
Event details: The Four Noble Truths are: the truth of suffering (the unsatisfactory nature of cyclic existence), the truth of its origins (the causes of suffering), the truth of cessation (that there is a state free from suffering), and the truth of the path leading to such cessation.
Gaden Shartse Khensur Rinpoche Jangchup Choeden is a former abbot of Gaden Shartse monastery and is now executive director of the Geluk International Foundation, deputy general secretary of the International Buddhist Confederation, and vice president of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace. Khensur Jangchup Choeden also teaches widely in India and abroad, where his teachings are much appreciated for their clarity and directness.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1599
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: Nagarjuna, the great 2nd century Indian master and leading proponent of the Madhyamaka philosophical school, wrote this celebrated poem as a letter of advice to his disciple King Gautamiputra. This course of teachings, recorded in August 2017 by Thrangu Monastery, Canada, is given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation. [This event was originally webcast in December 2020 and January 2021 as Event ID 1469.]
Event details: Nagarjuna’s ‘Letter to a Friend’ gives a concise and comprehensive introduction to the entire path and practice of Mahayana Buddhism, guiding both householders and the ordained onto the path leading to liberation and enlightenment. The instructions are of special interest to those who wish to follow a spiritual path while continuing to live and work in society, styled in a language and imagery that are easy to understand.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1600
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: This is a rare opportunity to receive step by step guidance from His Holiness on key elements of ‘Ngondro’, the inner preliminary practices, namely: taking refuge, developing bodhicitta (the altruistic intention to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings) and the practice of Mandala Offering. In English with simultaneous Chinese translation. [This event was originally webcast in August 2019 as Event ID 223. There were no webcasts on Days 7, 8, and 9.]
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1601
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: Karma is a Sanskrit word which means ‘action’. Karma refers to the doctrine of actions and their causal consequences. These three talks by senior teacher Karma Wangchuk Lhamo are given in Tibetan with English translation. [This event was originally webcast in July 2019 as Event ID 220.]
Event details: The concept of karma includes, in its causal aspect, both the actual actions (physical, verbal and mental) and the psychological imprints and tendencies created within the mind by such actions. After the commitment of an action a causal chain is maintained within the mental continuum which continues through successive events and rebirths. Such a karmic potential is later activated when it interacts with appropriate circumstances and conditions thus leading to the fruition of its effects. In general, if we act motivated by greed, anger, or delusion, we are planting the seed of suffering; when our acts are motivated by generosity, love, or wisdom, then we are creating the karmic conditions for openness and happiness.
Karma Wangchuk Lhamo was ordained at Thrangu Tara Abbey at the age of sixteen. In 1999 she entered solitary retreat for three years in Manang, Nepal. Between 2005 and 2014 she completed the nine year shedra studies course at Namdroling monastery in South India. Since 2014 she has been a senior teacher at Thrangu Tara Abbey.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 173
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: H.E. Minling Khenchen Rinpoche teaching on the fundamental importance of the cultivation of Bodhicitta (the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings) in our practice of Dharma (the process of spiritual transformation). English translation available.
[This event was originally webcast on 14 April 2018 as Event ID 152.]
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