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Every Thursday Online via Zoom 8:00 am – 8:45 am PST     Weekly on Thursdays—We join the Global Mani Mantra Retreat from May 17 – November 1! Join us each Thursday morning through November 1 as the North American Region participates in the FPMT Global Mani Retreat with a short, powerful 45-minute collective practice. […]

Thursdays, August 6 – September 3,  8:00 am – 9:30 am Online Only    After completing Lama Tsongkhapa's explanation of the six perfections in his Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Middle Lamrim), we now turn to two topics that he explores in exceptional depth: concentration and wisdom. In this next […]

Monday – Friday 6:30 am – 7:00 am PDT Online Only via Zoom   Start the day at 6:30 am Pacific Time with guided meditations every weekday. "Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind. Therefore it’s something that we absolutely have to do. Since Western education does not explain how the […]

Monday – Friday 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm PDT Online Only via Zoom End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Please try to join this class no later than 8:00 pm. “There are so many problems in the world—what should we do? Doing Vajrasattva practice is the answer; doing purification is […]

Four Teaching Sessions Tuesdays, August 11 – September 1 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm at Land of Medicine Buddha Practice Session Sunday, September 6 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm at Ocean of Compassion Discovering Buddhism Join a new cycle of Discovering Buddhism — a fresh opportunity for students of all backgrounds to explore the foundations […]

Venerable Samten will performing the Cittamani Tara Puja (in Tibetan). This practice is done in-person only. The puja, preceded by some preliminary prayers, will be done in the following sequence: Praise to Shakyamuni Buddha Ganden Lhagyama (Hundred Deities of Tushita), aka Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga Four Mandala Offerings to Cittamani Tara Protector Prayers (occasionally) We are doing […]

7:00 am – 8:30 am *This practice session will be held online via zoom* Namgyalma is one of the three main long-life deities and belongs to the tathagata family of practices. Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the Namgyalma practice not only dispels life obstacles; it also purifies negativities and downfalls and protects against birth in […]

Saturday, August 29 (Rescheduled from August 22) 10:00 am – 12:00 noon Online Only via Zoom We continue our ongoing series of teachings with Geshe Ngawang Dakpa in collaboration with our sister center, Tse Chen Ling. We are happy to share that we will be starting with a new topic! Geshe-la will give a commentary […]

In-Depth Meditation Training: Year 4, The Vajra Ground: Mahāmudrā and Kriyā Tantra September 5 – November 28 In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the […]

Saturday, September 5 – Sunday, September 6 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm In Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Weekend Retreat Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu Join us for a weekend retreat exploring The Foundation of All Qualities, Lama Tsongkhapa's concise and […]

Tuesday, September 8 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm In Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu According to the Buddha, every living being—from the smallest insect to every human being—possesses the potential to attain full enlightenment. This innate capacity, known as buddha […]

Wednesday, September 9 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm In Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu Anger is one of the greatest obstacles to a peaceful life. It damages our relationships, it disturbs our minds, and it prevents us from responding wisely […]

Saturday, September 12 – Sunday, September 13 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm In Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Weekend Retreat Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu Join us for a rare opportunity to receive teachings on The Sixteen Human Dharmas, the classic […]

Wednesday September 16 – September 23 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu We warmly invite you to join us for this precious opportunity to receive teachings from the highly respected Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdü on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path, one […]

Ngondro Lamrim Training (NLRT) A Two-Year Journey in the Common and Uncommon Preliminary Practices, an excellent preparation for the FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training (IDMT) Introduction The Lamrim — "Stages of the Path" in Tibetan — is a systematic presentation of the entire Buddhist path to Awakening, written by the great Tibetan master Je Tsongkhapa in […]

Saturday, September 26 – Sunday, September 27 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm In Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Weekend Retreat Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu Join us for a transformative weekend retreat exploring Lama Tsongkhapa's timeless teachings on mind training (Lojong), […]

We carry more burden than we know. The habits of the mind, the weight of past actions, the fears that surface when we sit in stillness — most of us spend a lifetime working around them. This retreat invites us to work with them instead.   This weekend retreat offers a rare opportunity to look […]

Online Only via Zoom November 13 – 20 Lama Zopa Rinpoche asked us to hold a 1,000 long mantra retreat each year, open to all. As he explained, the Namgyalma practice dispels life obstacles, purifies, and protects against birth in the lower realms. He said it is especially beneficial for the sick, including those with […]