White Tara Retreat

WHITE TARA RETREAT  Kadampa Center is happy to announce our first week-long retreat in our gompa! From Friday, March 7 to Sunday, March 16, Geshe Sangpo will lead us in a White Tara retreat. In this “approaching” retreat, we will go  deep into White Tara’s practice. With four daily sessions, we will do the sadhana and recite mantras, with the aim of reciting 100,000 mantras. At the end of the retreat, we will have a fire puja right here on our grounds.

This retreat is open to all students – it is not necessary to have the initiation – and there are opportunities to participate on several levels:

• Full participation in the retreat. This means attending all sessions, every day. (If there’s an emergency or other need to miss a session or two, that’s fine.)
• Joining for a few sessions. Students who cannot do the full retreat but wish to join in and recite White Tara mantras during retreat sessions are welcome to come. These participants will be seated in the lobby, to maintain the retreat energy in the gompa. Copies of the text and audio from the gompa will be available in the lobby.
• Volunteering in support of the retreat. We will need cooks, folks to stock supplies for our self-service breakfast, and volunteers to help Geshe Sangpo prepare for the fire puja.
  • We will especially need volunteers on Sunday, March 16, to help serve lunch, clean up after the fire puja, and get the gompa back to its default setup.
  • Watch for more information about volunteering!
• Offering financial support to help cover the cost of meals and supplies for the retreat and the fire puja. There is great merit in sponsoring spiritual practice – giving the Dharma is the highest form of generosity.
  • To support the retreat in any amount click here.
  • To  sponsor the fire puja ($108) click here. 

Schedule:

On the opening day, retreat participants will help set up the gompa, the White Tara altar and offerings. We will have a very short session before departing for the night. On the following days, each session will include doing the sadhana and reciting mantras.

Friday night, March 7

Saturday, March 8 through Saturday, March 15:

Sunday, March 16:

There will be karma yoga responsibilities for retreat participants, including cleaning the gompa, setting up offerings, washing dishes after meals and more. These will be arranged on the first night.

Accommodations and meals:

We do not have sleeping quarters at the Center, so students will go home each night to sleep and then return in the morning for our first session. Kadampa Center will serve three meals each day. Meals are covered by the registration fee and are for registered retreat participants only.

Registration: 

Participants will need to register for the retreat. The only cost for the retreat, $75, is to cover meals. Space is limited! Registration will open soon.