Events in September 2024

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August 26, 2024
August 27, 2024
August 28, 2024(1 event)

7:00 pm
August 28, 2024

Happy Dakini Day!

Please feel free to join us at the Centre.

Yumka (The Queen of Great Bliss) with Tsok feast offering on the 25th of the lunar month is dedicated to Padmasambhava's consort, the enlightened wisdom Dakini, Yeshe Tsogyal.

Tsok means “gathering together” for a spiritual feast. The practitioners come together, the food and drink to be offered to everyone is assembled, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas gather together, and finally as a result of this practice, merit and wisdom are accumulated or “gathered together” by the participants.

Text is available at this link:

10th & 25th - Rigdzin Dupa & Yumka Tsok Liturgy - English & Chinese

August 29, 2024
August 30, 2024
August 31, 2024(1 event)

9:00 am 12:00 pm
August 31, 2024

Teaching - Khen Rinpoche will teach on a brief profound text entitled: Guru Padmasambhava’s Pointing Out Instructions to an Old Lady

Please note: No registration required for Zoom but registration is required for all in-house attendance.

Click HERE to register for IN-PERSON attendance at the teaching. In-house seating is limited to 30 people.

Click HERE for Zoom Link - Meeting ID: 878 1218 5091 & Passcode: Longchenpa

All are welcome! Khen Rinpoche has indicated that there are no restrictions, but requests that only those with deep faith in the Dharma and who are committed to Vajrayana practice attend. We are very fortunate to receive this auspicious Dzogchen teaching and empowerment during Khenchen Guru’s last visit before the Centre closes at the end of December.

September 1, 2024(2 events)

September 1, 2024

Today is Dharma Protector Day

Vajrakilaya is the main Nyingma protector deity whose practice dispels harmful beings, harmful emotions, and  negative circumstances, creating beneficial conditions for Dharma practice and the path to  enlightenment.

Text is available at this link:

NamchoDailyPractice & Vajrakilaya

For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.

10:00 am 12:00 pm
September 1, 2024

Empowerment (IN-PERSON ONLY- no Zoom) - Lhadrup Thigle Gyachen (The Sealed Quintessence), the innermost secret Lama practice in the Longchen Nyingthig Cycle. See HERE for more information on Thigle Gyachen. 

Click HERE to register for IN-PERSON attendance at Empowerment. In-house seating is limited to 30 people.

All are welcome! Khen Rinpoche has indicated that there are no restrictions, but requests that only those with deep faith in the Dharma and who are committed to Vajrayana practice attend. We are very fortunate to receive this auspicious Dzogchen teaching and empowerment during Khenchen Guru’s last visit before the Centre closes at the end of December.

September 2, 2024
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September 10, 2024
September 11, 2024(1 event)

September 11, 2024

Today is Medicine Buddha Day

Meditational deity practice on the Medicine Buddha is carried out to pacify all physical and mental illnesses, diseases and suffering caused by all disturbing emotions such as anger, desire, pride, ignorance & jealousy.

Text is available at this link:

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For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.

September 12, 2024
September 13, 2024(1 event)

September 13, 2024

Happy Guru Rinpoche Day!

Rigdzin Dupa with Tsok  feast offering - focusing on the inner practice of Padmasambhava to purify our obstacles and to receive blessings & accomplishment from Guru Rinpoche.

Tsok means “gathering together” for a spiritual feast. The practitioners come together, the food and drink to be offered to everyone is assembled, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas gather together, and finally as a result of this practice, merit and wisdom are accumulated or “gathered together” by the participants.

Text is available at this link:

10th & 25th - Rigdzin Dupa & Yumka Tsok Liturgy - English & Chinese

We encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.

September 14, 2024
September 15, 2024
September 16, 2024
September 17, 2024
September 18, 2024(1 event)

September 18, 2024

Today is Amitabha/Phowa Day

Buddha Amitabha, whose name means ‘Boundless Light’ is particularly associated with the clear light of liberation that dawns when one recognizes the true nature of one’s own mind. This subtlest manifestation of mind arises also at death and is known as the clear light of death.

Phowa – Namchö Practice - The practice of conscious dying and the transfer of Consciousness to the Pure Land; a profound way in which Dharma is realized spontaneously.

Text is available at this link:

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For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.

September 19, 2024
September 20, 2024
September 21, 2024
September 22, 2024
September 23, 2024
September 24, 2024
September 25, 2024
September 26, 2024
September 27, 2024(1 event)

6:00 pm
September 27, 2024

Happy Dakini Day!

Please feel free to join us at the Centre.

Yumka (The Queen of Great Bliss) with Tsok feast offering on the 25th of the lunar month is dedicated to Padmasambhava's consort, the enlightened wisdom Dakini, Yeshe Tsogyal.

Tsok means “gathering together” for a spiritual feast. The practitioners come together, the food and drink to be offered to everyone is assembled, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas gather together, and finally as a result of this practice, merit and wisdom are accumulated or “gathered together” by the participants.

Text is available at this link:

10th & 25th - Rigdzin Dupa & Yumka Tsok Liturgy - English & Chinese

September 28, 2024
September 29, 2024
September 30, 2024
October 1, 2024(1 event)

October 1, 2024

Today is Dharma Protector Day

Vajrakilaya is the main Nyingma protector deity whose practice dispels harmful beings, harmful emotions, and  negative circumstances, creating beneficial conditions for Dharma practice and the path to  enlightenment.

Text is available at this link:

NamchoDailyPractice & Vajrakilaya

For ritual practice days, we encourage our sangha to join those Palyul Centres whose practices are led on Zoom by a resident Lama.

October 2, 2024
October 3, 2024
October 4, 2024
October 5, 2024
October 6, 2024

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