Upcoming Special Events | January 2024

Celebrate with Teaching, Prayer, & Treats

What better way to start to your new year than to engage in these powerful prayers to Tara, while enjoying the company of friends and community. Everyone welcome! 

Join us in this special method of Tara chanting to wrap the entire world in requests to Buddha Tara. We gather together to ask her to please take away our obstacles and help everyone find the happy, meaningful life they long for. Feel free to engage in all six sessions or just one… whatever you do will bring great benefit to you and others. 

This puja is recited six times in the 24-hour period.  We introduce the first session with a lovely teaching by our resident teacher, Gen Dorje, after which we will enjoy light treats and refreshments to celebrate New Year’s Eve.    

“In general, prayers made by an assembly of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles we shall make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom we shall be successful.”
– Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Registration details

Cost: Free; this event is in person only (will not be livestreamed)

** Can’t attend but want to enjoy Tara Prayer sessions at home? We will use the Liberation from Sorrow sadhana found on Tharpa on demand as an MP3 audio, E-booklet.  Find it at this link

Buddha Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of the compassion of all enlightened beings. Through sincerely engaging in Buddha Avalokiteshvara’s brief and powerful meditation practice we can gradually awaken our compassionate Buddha nature. We can solve our own daily problems by controlling our desirous attachment, anger and ignorance, and then from this state we can bring so much extraordinary benefit to our family, our community and our world.

An empowerment is a guided tantric meditation that harnesses wisdom, imagination and the power of enlightened beings to take us to pure worlds and pure experiences. It bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. During this special weekend course, Gen Kelsang Dorje will grant the special blessing empowerment of Avalokiteshvara and give the transmission of the mantra, followed by teachings on how to integrate this practice into our daily lives.

Every is welcome to attend this very special event. It’s a wonderful way to begin the New Year!

Registration Details

Cost: $45; lunch is $10 additional

This is an in-person only event.

We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.

In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving powerful blessings by engaging in the Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa, whose ordained name was Losang Dragpa, was a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist Master who promoted and developed the Kadampa Buddhism that Atisha had introduced three centuries earlier. Mandala offering is an offering of the entire universe visualized as a Pure Land, with all its inhabitants as pure beings.

There will be an introduction on the practice of Guru Yoga and mandala offerings on Saturday at 9am, but the retreat will be unguided and will include chanted prayers and making mandala offerings using a mandala kit or a plate with rice. We will use the Offering to the Spiritual Guide Sadhana.

Registration details

Cost:
Full retreat (non-member) $50
Full retreat (member) $20
Single session $5

This retreat will not be livestreamed.

We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.

In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving powerful blessings by engaging in the Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa, whose ordained name was Losang Dragpa, was a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist Master who promoted and developed the Kadampa Buddhism that Atisha had introduced three centuries earlier. Mandala offering is an offering of the entire universe visualized as a Pure Land, with all its inhabitants as pure beings.

There will be an introduction on the practice of Guru Yoga and mandala offerings on Saturday at 9am, but the retreat will be unguided and will include chanted prayers and making mandala offerings using a mandala kit or a plate with rice. We will use the Offering to the Spiritual Guide Sadhana.

Registration details

Cost:
Full retreat (non-member) $50
Full retreat (member) $20
Single session $5

This retreat will not be livestreamed.

We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.

In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving powerful blessings by engaging in the Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa, whose ordained name was Losang Dragpa, was a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist Master who promoted and developed the Kadampa Buddhism that Atisha had introduced three centuries earlier. Mandala offering is an offering of the entire universe visualized as a Pure Land, with all its inhabitants as pure beings.

There will be an introduction on the practice of Guru Yoga and mandala offerings on Saturday at 9am, but the retreat will be unguided and will include chanted prayers and making mandala offerings using a mandala kit or a plate with rice. We will use the Offering to the Spiritual Guide Sadhana.

Registration details

Cost:
Full retreat (non-member) $50
Full retreat (member) $20
Single session $5

This retreat will not be livestreamed.

We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.

In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving powerful blessings by engaging in the Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa, whose ordained name was Losang Dragpa, was a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist Master who promoted and developed the Kadampa Buddhism that Atisha had introduced three centuries earlier. Mandala offering is an offering of the entire universe visualized as a Pure Land, with all its inhabitants as pure beings.

There will be an introduction on the practice of Guru Yoga and mandala offerings on Saturday at 9am, but the retreat will be unguided and will include chanted prayers and making mandala offerings using a mandala kit or a plate with rice. We will use the Offering to the Spiritual Guide Sadhana.

Registration details

Cost:
Full retreat (non-member) $50
Full retreat (member) $20
Single session $5

This retreat will not be livestreamed.

We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings.

In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of accumulating merit, or positive energy, by making mandala offerings and receiving powerful blessings by engaging in the Guru Yoga practice of Je Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa, whose ordained name was Losang Dragpa, was a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist Master who promoted and developed the Kadampa Buddhism that Atisha had introduced three centuries earlier. Mandala offering is an offering of the entire universe visualized as a Pure Land, with all its inhabitants as pure beings.

There will be an introduction on the practice of Guru Yoga and mandala offerings on Saturday at 9am, but the retreat will be unguided and will include chanted prayers and making mandala offerings using a mandala kit or a plate with rice. We will use the Offering to the Spiritual Guide Sadhana.

Registration details

Cost:
Full retreat (non-member) $50
Full retreat (member) $20
Single session $5

This retreat will not be livestreamed.