Events calendar

Events in December 2024

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November 25, 2024(1 event)


November 25, 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

November 26, 2024
November 27, 2024(1 event)


November 27, 2024

Thubten Samten Chodron (Nyingje Norgang, PhD)In this time when our lives can feel speedy and stressful, our hearts breaking with every news cycle, and our minds out of control, we may feel the need an Operator’s Manual for the Human Heart/Mind. Fortunately, such a manual has been around since the 13th century and it still works for the problems of the 21st Century!  It’s called, Lojong, and it is organized around 59 pithy sayings.  Each one is a support for realizing the vast potential of the human heart/mind. Please join us weekly (or occasionally) on Wednesday for a period of guided meditation and contemplation and an introduction to one of the sayings.  Before concluding, we always have time for comments and questions. 

  • Wednesdays - 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Zoom
  • Zoom link HERE - Meeting ID: 825 9775 6382 - Passcode - Meditation
November 28, 2024
November 29, 2024(1 event)

November 29, 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.

November 30, 2024
December 1, 2024
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December 3, 2024
December 4, 2024(1 event)


December 4, 2024

Thubten Samten Chodron (Nyingje Norgang, PhD)In this time when our lives can feel speedy and stressful, our hearts breaking with every news cycle, and our minds out of control, we may feel the need an Operator’s Manual for the Human Heart/Mind. Fortunately, such a manual has been around since the 13th century and it still works for the problems of the 21st Century!  It’s called, Lojong, and it is organized around 59 pithy sayings.  Each one is a support for realizing the vast potential of the human heart/mind. Please join us weekly (or occasionally) on Wednesday for a period of guided meditation and contemplation and an introduction to one of the sayings.  Before concluding, we always have time for comments and questions. 

  • Wednesdays - 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Zoom
  • Zoom link HERE - Meeting ID: 825 9775 6382 - Passcode - Meditation
December 5, 2024
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December 7, 2024
December 8, 2024(1 event)

December 8, 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.

December 9, 2024
December 10, 2024(1 event)


December 10, 2024

Happy Guru Rinpoche Day!

Please feel free to join us at the Centre.

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

December 11, 2024(1 event)


December 11, 2024

Thubten Samten Chodron (Nyingje Norgang, PhD)In this time when our lives can feel speedy and stressful, our hearts breaking with every news cycle, and our minds out of control, we may feel the need an Operator’s Manual for the Human Heart/Mind. Fortunately, such a manual has been around since the 13th century and it still works for the problems of the 21st Century!  It’s called, Lojong, and it is organized around 59 pithy sayings.  Each one is a support for realizing the vast potential of the human heart/mind. Please join us weekly (or occasionally) on Wednesday for a period of guided meditation and contemplation and an introduction to one of the sayings.  Before concluding, we always have time for comments and questions. 

  • Wednesdays - 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Zoom
  • Zoom link HERE - Meeting ID: 825 9775 6382 - Passcode - Meditation
December 12, 2024
December 13, 2024
December 14, 2024
December 15, 2024(1 event)

December 15, 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.

December 16, 2024
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December 20, 2024
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December 23, 2024
December 24, 2024
December 25, 2024(1 event)

December 25, 2024

Happy Dakini Day!

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

December 26, 2024
December 27, 2024
December 28, 2024
December 29, 2024(1 event)

December 29, 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.

December 30, 2024
December 31, 2024
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