Schedule of Events
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Featured Upcoming Event
Event ID: 2522
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Pre-recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, the first three sessions of the teaching will be available to view on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 31st, April 1st, and 2nd, with the further sessions on each Friday, Saturday and Sunday until April 23rd, 2023. The teachings are given in Tibetan with simultaneous translations in English and Chinese.
Event details: H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa will continue his discourse on the two praises of the Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje: the praise ‘Good Deeds’ and the praise ‘He Searched Thoroughly’. ‘Good Deeds’ recounts his life and teaching, especially as these relate to thirty-three of his good deeds. At that time, he was one of the greatest lamas of the Dakpo Kagyu, and this is one of the longer of his autobiographical works written in verse. There is a commentary on this text by Sangye Paldrup. The praise ’He Searched Thoroughly’ recounts nine of the key points in his life. This text is included in the prayer book compiled by Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne, and there is a complete explanation of the text in Pawo Tsuglak Trengwa’s ‘Dharma History: A Feast for the Learned’.
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 May 22nd, 2023, 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.)
Featured Upcoming Event
Event ID: 2511
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teaching, to be recorded at International Buddhist Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal, is given in English.
Event details: H.H. the 43rd Sakya Trizin Gyana Vajra Rinpoche will give a teaching on the fundamentals of Buddhist theory and practice.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special teaching event. At the time you register, there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of the International Buddhist Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal. From the closing registration date of May 1st, 2023, 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: 2521
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Propitiating and making offerings to the Dharma protectors is regarded as extremely beneficial in overcoming our spiritual and worldly obstacles. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: All the monks participate in this special puja when offerings and prayers are made to the Dharma protectors in order to purify negativities and restore broken commitments.
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 April 5th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2519
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The Akshobhya ritual is a very powerful purification practice both for oneself and all sentient beings and is especially beneficial for those who are recently deceased. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: Buddha Akshobhya, the ‘Unshakeable One’, is the buddha of one of the five enlightened- families, corresponding to the perfected states of the five psycho-physical aggregates. Akshobhya is the perfected state of our aggregate of form – the mirror-like wisdom, which is free from aversion, fear, and anger.
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 April 5th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2520
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The ‘Vairocana Ritual, based on the Sarvadurgati Parisodhana Tantra, bestows great benefits both to the participants and the deceased. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This puja conveys a powerful blessing to our deceased loved ones, and is a way for us to show our continued care and our wish for our loved ones to meet with auspicious circumstances and to be released from suffering. If you wish the name(s) of your deceased loved one(s) to be included in the puja, please write each name into the ‘Your dedication’ section of the event registration page.
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 April 3rd, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2517
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This Guru Puja (Lama Choepa) is dedicated to the long life of all the spiritual masters and for the benefit of all beings, living and dead. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: ‘Guru Puja’ (Lama Choepa), literally means ‘making offerings to the spiritual guide’. This beautifully poetic and profound guru puja practice is a powerful method for strengthening the guru disciple relationship and for creating merit on this special 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 April 2nd, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2516
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This Guru Puja (Lam-Choe) is dedicated to the long life of all the spiritual masters and for the benefit of all beings, living and dead. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: ‘Guru Puja’ (Lam-Choe), literally means ‘making offerings to the spiritual guide’. This beautifully poetic and profound guru puja practice is a powerful method for strengthening the guru disciple relationship and dedicating merit at this auspicious time.
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 April 2nd, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2512
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This practice is dedicated to the flourishing of the Dharma and world peace, to the well-being of all sentient beings. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: The 100,000 recitations of the ‘Praise to the Twenty-One Taras’ are performed every year by the full assembly at Sakya Nunnery. Tara is the female embodiment of the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas and the recitations of the praises to the twenty-one forms of Tara are said to pacify and bring protection from all the myriad causes of danger and suffering for ourselves and others and bring the fulfilment of positive good wishes.
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 April 5th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2515
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This year’s Mani Dhung-dup is dedicated to the stable health and long life of all Dharma masters, to the well-being of all sentient beings, to the removal of illness and negative obstacles throughout the world, to the overcoming of adverse factors, and to the fulfilment of all positive wishes. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: A Mani Dhung-dup is a special event when the entire monk assembly and the local community gather together to recite the six-syllable heart mantra of Avalokiteshvara (the embodiment of the compassion of all the buddhas).
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 April 14th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2522
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Pre-recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, the first three sessions of the teaching will be available to view on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 31st, April 1st, and 2nd, with the further sessions on each Friday, Saturday and Sunday until April 23rd, 2023. The teachings are given in Tibetan with simultaneous translations in English and Chinese.
Event details: H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa will continue his discourse on the two praises of the Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje: the praise ‘Good Deeds’ and the praise ‘He Searched Thoroughly’. ‘Good Deeds’ recounts his life and teaching, especially as these relate to thirty-three of his good deeds. At that time, he was one of the greatest lamas of the Dakpo Kagyu, and this is one of the longer of his autobiographical works written in verse. There is a commentary on this text by Sangye Paldrup. The praise ’He Searched Thoroughly’ recounts nine of the key points in his life. This text is included in the prayer book compiled by Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne, and there is a complete explanation of the text in Pawo Tsuglak Trengwa’s ‘Dharma History: A Feast for the Learned’.
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 May 22nd, 2023, 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: 2523
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The ‘Vairocana Drupchod’, based on the Sarvadurgati Parisodhana Tantra, bestows great benefits both to the participants and the deceased. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This puja conveys a powerful blessing to our deceased loved ones, and is a way for us to show our continued care and our wish for our loved ones to meet with auspicious circumstances and to be released from suffering. If you wish the name(s) of your deceased loved one(s) to be included in the puja, please write each name into the ‘Your dedication’ section of the event registration page.
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 April 5th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2511
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teaching, to be recorded at International Buddhist Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal, is given in English.
Event details: H.H. the 43rd Sakya Trizin Gyana Vajra Rinpoche will give a teaching on the fundamentals of Buddhist theory and practice.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special teaching event. At the time you register, there will also be the opportunity to make a voluntary offering in support of the International Buddhist Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal. From the closing registration date of May 1st, 2023, 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: 2513
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The webcast will be made available for viewing by the end of the day (India time) on March 31st, 2023.
Event details: On the tenth day of the second lunar month, a full day of sacred ritual dances (Garcham) are performed in honour of the birth of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), based on the Hidden Treasure (terma) titled ‘Lama Sangdu’, discovered by Guru Chowang (1212-1270). The sacred dances re-enact especially powerful events which took place during the life of Padmasambhava. It is said that just to see and hear these sacred dances conveys a powerful blessing.
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 Mindrolling monastery, Dehradun, India.
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: 2518
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The ‘Great Torma Offering Ritual (Torchen) of Dharmaraja and Mahakala’ will be held for three days and it is dedicated to the longevity of all spiritual masters and to the overcoming of all adverse factors, to the well-being of all sentient beings, the pacification of malevolent forces, the removal of illnesses and obstacles, and for the fulfilment of all positive wishes. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: 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 April 1st, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2510
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This Drupchod 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 endowment of profound confidence, wisdom, and merit. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This Drupchod is a propitiation to the meditational deity Nairatmya (Dagmema), the consort of Hevajra in the Hevajra Tantra, which is held annually in the second lunar month for seven consecutive days. As with many Drupchod, an elaborate sand mandala and extensive offerings are prepared by the sangha.
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 April 5th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2508
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This Drubchod is said to bestow great benefit and blessing to all participants, to help to purify many aeons of negative karma, remove all one’s obstacles, and endow profound confidence, wisdom and merit. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This Drupchod is a propitiation to the meditational deity Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra, with extensive offerings, which is held annually at Ngor Pal Ewam Chodan monastery for seven days in the second Tibetan lunar month. As with many Drubchod, an elaborate sand mandala and offerings are prepared by the sangha.
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 April 4th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2509
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Vajrabhairava, also known as Yamantaka, is the wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, the embodiment of the wisdom (prajna) of all the Buddhas. The practices related to Vajrabhairava (Yamantaka) are highly esteemed for their power to overcome the causes of untimely death and obstacles to our lives and spiritual development. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: 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 March 29th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2514
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: These prayers and practices are dedicated to the flourishing of the Dharma and world peace, to the well-being of all sentient beings, the removal of illnesses and obstacles, and the fulfilment of all positive wishes. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: 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 March 31st, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2506
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This special 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: The ‘Grand Cakrasamvara Self-Initiation Ritual’ is held annually in the second lunar month for five consecutive days, and includes the preparation of an elaborate sand mandala together with extensive offerings.
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 March 28th, 2023.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 2504
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This teaching, to be recorded at Tsuglagkhang, Main Temple, Dharamsala, HP, India, will be given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation.
Event details: On the auspicious occasion of Chotrul Duchen (Festival of Miracles), which this year falls on March 7th, 2023, H.H. the Dalai Lama gives a short teaching from the Jataka Tales. The ‘Jataka Tales’, which recount the past lives of the Buddha Shakyamuni, form one of the twelve traditional divisions of the Buddha's discourses. In particular, they illustrate how the Buddha, in his past lives, dedicated himself to the Bodhisattva's way of life, worked for the benefit of others, and thereby enhanced his motivation of Bodhicitta.
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 April 10th, 2023, 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: 2407
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teachings, recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa between January 30th and February 1st, 2023, are given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation. All three sessions of the teaching will be available to view on Sunday, February 5th, 2023.
Event details: Atisha is a great eleventh century Indian Buddhist master from Vikramashila university in ancient Bengal, who came to Tibet at the invitation of the king of Ngari (Western Tibet), Lhalama Yeshe-o and his nephew Jangchub-o. Atisha, also known as Dipamkara-shrijnana, was a key figure in the revival of Buddhism in Tibet following its persecution by the Tibetan king Langdarma in the 9th century. Atisha's works include the celebrated text titled ‘Bodhipathapradipa’ (Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment). Together with his most famous disciple Dromtonpa, Atisha is accredited with the founding of the influential Tibetan Buddhist school known as Kadam.
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 April 3rd, 2023, 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: 2397
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teachings, recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa between January 14th and 25th, 2023, are given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation. The teachings, recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa between January 14th and 25th, 2023, are given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation. The first three sessions of the teaching will be available to view on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 27th, 28th, and 29th, consecutively, with the further final two sessions on the following Friday and Saturday until February 4th, 2023.
Event details: Written in the 4th or 5th century by the great Indian master Vasubhandu, ‘The Thirty Verses’ is one of the core texts of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. The Yogacara school is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology, emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness, through the interior lens of meditative and yogic practices.
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 April 3rd, 2023, 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: 1894
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: These suttas (discourses) stress the practice of sati (mindfulness) for the purification of beings, and the overcoming of suffering, and for walking on the path of truth toward the realization of Nirvana. English and Chinese translation available.
[This event was originally webcast in December 2021 as Event ID 1835.]
Event details: The Satipatthana Sutta (The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), and the subsequently created Mahasatipatthana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), are two of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, acting as the foundation for contemporary vipassana meditational practice. The Pali texts of the Satipatthana Sutta and the Mahasatipatthana Sutta are largely similar in content; the main difference being a section about the Four Noble Truths (Catu Ariya Sacca) in the Observation of Phenomena (Dhammanupassana), which is greatly expanded in the Mahasatipatthana Sutta.
Teaching recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India. 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.
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 Jangchup Choeden is a former abbot of Gaden Shartse monastery and former Executive Director of the Geluk International Foundation. He is a 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.
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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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