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Chanted prayers are free of charge and everyone is welcome.
REMINDER: All classes, events and retreats are now livestream via ZOOM only
INCREASE SPIRITUAL POWER
“It is very easy to say prayers, and if we say them with a good heart and strong concentration they are very powerful.”
- Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Wishfulfilling Jewel with TSOG
Thursdays • 5:30 - 6:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
The Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa and a powerful practice for relying upon the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. This practice includes a tsog (food) offering.
Live stream via ZOOM
Offering to the Spiritual Guide
10th and 25th Days of the Month
(Please see calendar for exact times)
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. This practice includes a tsog (food) offering.
Live stream via ZOOM
Melodious Drum, Long Protector Prayer
29th Day of the Month • time varies
A monthly practice of making offerings and requesting the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden, to remove obstacles and to gather all favorable conditions for our spiritual practice. This practice includes a tsog (food) offering (3.5 hours). Please see our calendar for exact times.
Live stream via ZOOM
Medicine Buddha Prayers
Thursdays • 10 - 11am
A practice for receiving a special power of body, speech, and mind through which you can help both yourself and others through healing actions.
Live stream via ZOOM
Liberation from Sorrow Prayers
7th - 8th day of the month
The session times for us on the East Coast are:
The 7th day: 9 pm
the 8th day: 1 am, 5 am, 9 am, 1 pm, 5 pm
Help the world. Join in with hundreds of people in worldwide prayers to Tara on the 8th of every month. In this powerful online puja we recite sincere Prayers and Requests to the Assembly of 21 Taras and deeply request the Blessed Mother to bestow her blessings on all living beings so that all sickness and other obstacles are quickly removed. This puja is recited six times in the 24-hour period beginning at 02:00 UK time on the 8th of every month. The praises are recited seven times in each session. Join as many sessions as you wish.
Live stream from the UK
POWA: Prayers for the Recently Deceased
3rd Saturday of the month • 10 - 10:45am
Powa is a beautiful and powerful ritual practice drawn from the Buddhist tantras and enables us to benefit the deceased by coming together as a group and making prayers and offerings on their behalf.
Live stream via ZOOM
Add names of the deceased to the dedication prayer list HERE.
35 Confession Buddha Prayers
Fridays • 9 - 9:25am
The Mahayana practice of the Three Superior Heaps - a prostration practice to purify negativity. Beginners Welcome!
Live stream via ZOOM
Dakini Yoga
Fridays • 7 - 7:50am
Dakini Yoga is a powerful method to overcome ordinary appearances & conceptions through relying on Guru Yoga and self-generation as the Highest Yoga Tantra Deity Vajrayogini. It is a main practice for fulfilling one of the six-session Guru Yoga commitments of Highest Yoga Tantra practitioners.
Live stream via ZOOM
*These prayers are for those who have received a Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment