Chanted Prayers

Everyone is welcome to join us in person for chanted prayers, or pujas, and retreat sessions. Each prayer practice has a particular purpose and benefits both ourself and all living beings. Please see below for more information. You can also email us with any questions.

Day Retreat on Fri 4 Jun: Offering Our Faith – timetable here

Powa Ceremony 10-11am Sun 6th

Wishfulfilling Jewel with Lamrim 5-6pm every weekday in June except Fri 4th & 10th-16th and 6-7pm Sat 12th

Wishfulfilling Jewel 5.45-6.30pm Fri 4th & 2-2.45pm 10th-11th & 14th-16th

Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog 2-3pm Sun 13th & 6-7pm every Saturday in June except Sat 12th

Tara Puja 11am-12pm Tue 8th

Refuge Retreat 10th-16th – timetable here

Precepts 6.30-7am Mon 15th

Offering to the Spiritual Guide 7.30pm Thurs 10th & Fri 25th

Kangso 8-11.30am Tue 29th

Offering to the Spiritual Guide

On the 10th and 25th of each month, Kadampas around the world engage in Offering to the Spiritual Guide. This beautiful practice, compiled by the first Panchen Lama, is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra. The main practice is meditation on reliance upon our Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong). By relying upon our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power, and especially our wisdom will naturally increase.

Prayer booklet available to purchase from Tharpa Publications.

Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog

Each week, we make special Tsog offerings with Wishfulfilling Jewel prayers. Wishfulfilling Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom and spiritual strength by relying upon the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties on the spiritual path by relying upon his Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. These two practices are the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. If we practise these regularly and sincerely, we will develop pure Dharma realisations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.

Prayer booklet available to purchase from Tharpa Publications.

Tara Puja: Liberation From Sorrow

Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. Her name means Rescuer, because she rescues us from all outer and inner fears. Ultimately she rescues us from all suffering and guides us to full enlightenment. Like a mother she protects us from all internal and external dangers; she provides us with all the necessary conditions for our spiritual training, and guides us and inspires us with her blessings as we progress along the spiritual path. These prayers include praises to the twenty-one manifestations of Tara. Because these are Sutra, the actual words of Buddha, they are particularly powerful and blessed.

Prayer booklet available to purchase from Tharpa Publications.

Kangso: Melodious Drum Victorious in All Directions

August 29

Dorje Shugden always helps, guides, and protects pure and faithful practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom, fulfilling their positive wishes and bestowing success on all their virtuous activities. This extensive sadhana is called ‘Kangso in Tibetan, which means Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual. Usually performed once a month in Dharma Centres, it is used for fulfilling our heart commitment to practise Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra and to rely upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden, regarding him as inseparable from our Spiritual Guide and Buddha, and for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments we may have incurred. Also included are Praise to Manjushri, the Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa, self-generation as Heruka, and the ritual for fulfilling and restoring our commitments with other Dharma Protectors.

Prayer booklet available to purchase from Tharpa Publications.

Powa Ceremony: Prayers for the Deceased

Through practising transference of consciousness, known as Powa, with faith, compassion and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those recently deceased to a higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha. The Powa Ceremony can be done either by a group of practitioners or individually on behalf of one or more deceased persons, or countless deceased beings. By engaging in this practice we also create a great collection of virtue, which will also lead us into the pathway to a Buddha’s Pure Land. If you’d like to add someone’s name to the Powa prayers, please email us.

Prayer booklet available to purchase from Tharpa Publications.

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