Chanted Prayers (Pujas)
Each month we hold a variety of Buddhist pujas (prayers) that are open to everyone. We make these prayers and requests to different deities or Buddhas in order to create the conditions for successful meditation, improve our good qualities and to benefit everyone around us.
Chanted prayers are a powerful way to help us stay positive and develop inner strength, as well as create positive mental energy to help the world in troubled times.
Dedications
At many of these prayer sessions we offer dedications on behalf of those who are experiencing suffering, or who have recently died. Should there be anyone you would like to add to those dedications, please click on the button and complete the form
Regular Pujas
(Please check calendar to confirm times and dates)
Every Wednesday & Thursday
Heart Jewel
By engaging in the special Guru yoga practised in conjunction with Je Tsongkhapa we can purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings, and attain a very special wisdom. By engaging in the special method for relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favourable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our spiritual realizations. These two practices are the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. If we practise them regularly and sincerely, we will reap a rich harvest of pure Dharma realizations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.
Every Friday and the 29th of the month
Wishfulfilling Jewel
By engaging in the Guru yoga practised in conjunction with Je Tsongkhapa we can purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings, and attain a very special compassion, wisdom and spiritual strength. By relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favourable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our spiritual realizations. These two practices are the very essence of Kadampa Buddhism. The practice of Wishfulfilling Jewel also includes special torma and tsog offering sections. If we practise this regularly and sincerely, we will develop pure Dharma realizations, and eventually come to experience the supreme joy of full enlightenment.
8th of the month
Tara Prayers (Liberation from Sorrow)
The Liberation from Sorrow 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. 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.
10th & 25th of the month
Offering to the Spiritual Guide
Offering to the Spiritual Guide, or Lama Chopa in Tibetan, is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra. It was compiled by the first Panchen Lama, Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, as a preliminary practice for Tantric Mahamudra. 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), as well as both the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying upon our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power, and especially our wisdom will naturally increase. A complete commentary to this practice can be found in Great Treasury of Merit.
Every month
Powa
Prayers of Compassion for the Deceased. Powa is a special ceremony to help those who have recently died experience peace of mind after death and be cared for by the Buddha of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara. During this ceremony we engage in the traditional Buddhist practice of transference of consciousness in conjunction with the prayers, “Path of Compassion for the Deceased”.
15th of the month
Precepts
Every month
The Blissful Path
The Blissful Path is the condensed sadhana or ritual prayer for spiritual attainment that contains the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas. Those who wish to train in the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini as a daily practice, but who have insufficient time or ability to practise either the extensive or middling sadhanas, can fulfil their aim and draw closer to the attainment of Buddha Vajrayogini by practising this short sadhana with strong faith.
1st Sunday of the month
Prayers For World Peace
If everyone sincerely wishes to be able to cherish others, and works towards this aim, the world will then be permanently at peace, and pure and everlasting happiness will pervade the entire world.
Prayers for World Peace is a free meditation class that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart. Classes will take place on the first Sunday of every month. Each class will Include a guided meditation, a short talk and very inspiring prayers for world peace.
As scheduled
Melodious Drum
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 – ritual prayers for spiritual attainments – is called ‘Kangso’ in Tibetan, which means ‘Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual’. 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.
Dedication Request
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