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Featured Upcoming Event
Event ID: 1880
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The daily teachings, recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, are given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation. There will be no teaching on January 31st and February 3rd, 2022.
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 March 14th, 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 Current Event
Event ID: 1863
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The first session of the course is available to view from Sunday, January 9th, 2022, and consequent sessions on each following Sunday until April 17th. The teaching, recorded at Venerable Khenpo Konchok Rangdol’s residence in Dehradun, India, is given in English.
Event details: Venerable Khenpo Konchok Rangdol will teach on one of the most influential texts of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism known as ‘The Single Intention’ (Gong-Chik) by Lord Jigten Sumgon. Early in the history of the Kagyu school, the teachings of Jigten Sumgon were condensed into 150 core formulations called vajra statements. These pithy, revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention (Gong-chik), which express the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. The text presents the teachings on mahamudra as pervading: disciplined conduct; meditative concentration; discriminative awareness; ground, path, and result; view, practice, and conduct; and the ‘three vows’ of pratimoksha, of the bodhisattvas, and of mantra. Jigten Sumgon’s teachings demonstrate how the fundamental values and insights taught by the Buddha are woven into our reality and therefore accessible to all.
To download the PDF of the root text, please copy and paste the link given below to your web browser address bar:
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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 Tserkarmo monastery, Ladakh, India. From the closing registration date of May 16th, 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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Event ID: 1880
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The daily teachings, recorded by the Office of H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, are given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation. There will be no teaching on January 31st and February 3rd, 2022.
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 March 14th, 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: 1882
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 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 Sakya Monastery and is held annually over seven days from the 23rd day of the 11th Tibetan lunar month.
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 January 31st, 2022.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1881
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This event commemorating the parinirvana of Khenchen Appey Rinpoche is a special opportunity to dedicate merit at this auspicious time. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: The International Buddhist Academy is organizing a grand puja on the eleventh anniversary of Khenchen Appey Rinpoche’s parinirvana. This auspicious day is also known as the ‘Threefold Memory Day’ as it coincides with the anniversary of Drogon Choegyal Phakpa and Deshung Ajam Rinpoche. H.E. 27th Chogye Trichen Rinpoche will preside over this event, together with Deshung Tulku Rinpoche and Tharig Tulku Rinpoche who will also be present.
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 January 24th, 2022.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1863
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The first session of the course is available to view from Sunday, January 9th, 2022, and consequent sessions on each following Sunday until April 17th. The teaching, recorded at Venerable Khenpo Konchok Rangdol’s residence in Dehradun, India, is given in English.
Event details: Venerable Khenpo Konchok Rangdol will teach on one of the most influential texts of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism known as ‘The Single Intention’ (Gong-Chik) by Lord Jigten Sumgon. Early in the history of the Kagyu school, the teachings of Jigten Sumgon were condensed into 150 core formulations called vajra statements. These pithy, revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention (Gong-chik), which express the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. The text presents the teachings on mahamudra as pervading: disciplined conduct; meditative concentration; discriminative awareness; ground, path, and result; view, practice, and conduct; and the ‘three vows’ of pratimoksha, of the bodhisattvas, and of mantra. Jigten Sumgon’s teachings demonstrate how the fundamental values and insights taught by the Buddha are woven into our reality and therefore accessible to all.
To download the PDF of the root text, please copy and paste the link given below to your web browser address bar:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bnI34YWPylHKaTWwX-vZhptIyu7bs6-_/view?usp=sharing
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 Tserkarmo monastery, Ladakh, India. From the closing registration date of May 16th, 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: 1860
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: The teaching, recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India, is given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation.
Event details: H.H. the Dalai Lama will teach on Je Tsongkhapa’s ‘The Three Principal Aspects of the Path’ (Lamtso Namsum). The three principal aspects of the path are: renunciation, bodhicitta, and the correct view of emptiness. The tradition of categorising all of the aspects of the path within these three principal topics of meditative practice was promulgated by the great Tibetan master Je Tsongkhapa. This succinct approach, and also the term ‘the three principal aspects of the path’, developed from a concise letter written in verse by Tsongkhapa to one of his disciples outlining the essential methods for training the mind. This letter was entitled ‘Lamgyi tsowo nampa sum’, ‘The Three Principal Aspects of the Path’. The practice of these three essential aspects embraces the entire process of mental training and advancement towards fulfilling the ultimate aim of a bodhisattva: the attainment of buddhahood for the sake of all beings.
The lamrim ‘graduated path’ is a textual tradition that organizes Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings into a complete step-by-step path to enlightenment. ‘The Concise Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment’ (Lamrim Dhuedhon) also known as ‘Song of Spiritual Experience’ (Lamrim Nyam-gur) is counted amongst the eighteen great lamrim texts studied by scholars and practitioners of the Geluk tradition. Composed by Je Tsongkhapa , the text presents the complete path to perfect enlightenment in forty-five verses.
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 January 31st, 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: 1835
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: The teaching, recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India, is given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation.
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. 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.
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 January 31st, 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: 1833
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Practices associated with Tara are very dearly held among all the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Tara is a female meditational deity who is regarded as the embodiment of the enlightened activity of all the buddhas.
Event details: Tara literally means ‘saviouress’ or ‘she who liberates’ and she is known as ‘she who ferries beings across the ocean of samsara.’ Peaceful and wrathful, beautiful and powerful, Tara is regarded as a sublime embodiment of ultimate wisdom and compassion. Rinpoche’s teaching gives guidance and commentary on ‘The Seven Supplications to Tara for Protection’ a profound prayer composed by the founder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, Lord Jigten Sumgon. Known for removing obstacles, this devotional prayer to Tara encompasses the main points of the Buddhist path. It exhorts Tara to help those with seven specific mental obscurations that are obstructions on the path to enlightenment. The teaching, recorded by Kagyu College, Dehradun, India, is given in Tibetan with English translation.
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 Kagyu Collge, Dehradun, India. From the closing registration date of January 31st, 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: 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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