Gompa

Download course notes, "A Bird Needs Two Wings: Wisdom and Compassion," prepared by Venerable Robina for this week's teachngs here:

Course notes for TABLET

Course notes for PHONE

The teaching will take place Monday, June 1, 7-9 pm,  hosted by Kadampa Center on Zoom and streamed on YouTube.

Students will need to register for each individual teaching they plan to attend.

Click here to register for this session.

The online environment creates an opportunity to develop new etiquette when attending a teaching.

• We ask students to please log in at least 10 minutes early, so that we have time to resolve any technical issues before the teacher arrives.
• To minimize distractions, please avoid using group chat during the teachings.
• Private chat will be available, and students can send questions for the teacher to the chat monitor, who will be identified for each teaching.

More about Venerable Robina Courtin

Venerable Robina on Facebook

Supporting the teachings

Supporting the teachings is an incredibly powerful and important act -- it is a practice of the highest form of generosity – giving the means to enlightenment. Kadampa Center has for many years operated within the ideal of offering teachings without charging a fee, so that money is not an obstacle for anyone to hear the precious teachings and participate in the practices. We rely on the generous hearts of those who are moved to support the spiritual offerings and keep them open to everyone regardless of ability to pay.

Although we don't have the expense of travel and hospitality for Venerable Robina during her visit, donations are still needed and meaningful, and make it possible for us to make a generous offering to her on behalf of everyone attending the teachings.

Supporting the teachings benefits not just the Center and those who attend, but it also greatly benefits the donor, because it creates the causes to meet the teachings again in future lives, and deepens the connection with the teacher.

. 

Kadampa Center offers two ways to support the teachings: Sponsorships and Donations.

Sponsorships begin at $250.

Sponsors receive:

 - The opportunity to write a personal dedication that we will post on the gompa door for all to share.  We must receive the sponsorship and dedication by Friday, May 29 to assure we have time to print and post your dedication.

There may be more than one sponsor for any event.

Donations are any amount less than $250.

Donors of $100 or more receive:

 - The opportunity to write a personal dedication that we will post on this pagefor all to share. We must receive the sponsorship and dedication by Friday, May 29 to assure we have time to print and post your dedication.

Supporting the teachings is a two-step process

Step One  is dedicating your generosity (click here).

Step Two  is making the donation or sponsorship (use the buttons below on this page),

Dedications may be very simple - "For my mother, Rosemary" - or they might encompass more extensive spiritual wishes, such as "May these teachings be the cause to liberate all sentient beings," or wishes for the teacher's long life, to benefit a person who is ill - any heart-felt positive intention!  You also can dedicate for more than one intention. If you'd like, you can team up with friends on a sponsorship - please have one person make the donation and work it out among yourselves. 

Use our secure online community to donate by clicking your choice below.

To try our new Text Giving, send KC108 to 73256 and select your level from the drop down menu..

Don't forget to dedicate your generosity!

Venerable Robina Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsor Spiritual Materials ~ $108

Sponsor Mon, Tue or Weds ~ $250

Sponsor Friday teaching ~ $350

Sponsor Saturday or Sunday teaching ~ $500

Venerable Robina Donation Opportunities

Heart Giving ~ $Your Choice

Thank You!

Among the 21 Tara emanations, the 20th Tara is especially effective for eliminating epidemics. In the practice, we will visualize this orange-colored Tara and recite her mantra, as well as recite Praises to the 21 Taras and Green Tara mantras.

This practice is offered online via Zoom only.

This practice is based on the Treasury of Two Siddhis, composed by Panchen Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen and translated for Kadampa Center by Geshe Gelek Chodha.

Led by Donna Seese

Protector, remover of obstacles, model of enlightened activity, inspiration to Lama Atisha - Tara is all of these. Doing Tara practice clears obstacles in our spiritual lives and helps us attain our positive goals, both spiritual and mundane. Tara is a female Buddha whose qualities include enlightened action and swiftly removing obstacles (Tara's 21 aspects are represented in statues on our altar).

Geshe Gelek translated this special practice, The Practice of Tara that Fulfills All Wishes, and assures us that this will greatly benefit not just our center and community, but have the best benefit of helping all sentient beings.

Geshe Gelek's teacher, (the former Abbot of Sera Je Monastery) Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Delek, also said when he visited in 2011 that we have a special connection to Tara, so doing her practice is incredibly beneficial for our community, harmony working together, and the success of Kadampa Center.

We will do this practice via Zoom, which will allow us to display the text for all to participate.  There will be no YouTube streaming.

Registration is required to join the Zoom session. This helps protect the session from "trolls" and helps protect participants' security.  

Register here in advance for this practice.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The practice will be led by Venerable Lhamo.

Tara is a female Buddha whose qualities include enlightened action and swiftly removing obstacles (Tara's 21 aspects are represented in statues on our altar). Geshe Gelek translated this special practice, The Practice of Tara that Fulfills All Wishes, and assures us that this will greatly benefit not just our center and community, but have the best benefit of helping all sentient beings.

Geshe Gelek's teacher, (the former Abbot of Sera Je Monastery) Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Delek, also said when he visited in 2011 that we have a special connection to Tara, so doing her practice is incredibly beneficial for our community, harmony working together, and the success of Kadampa Center.

We will do this practice via Zoom, which will allow us to display the text for all to participate.  There will be no YouTube streaming.

Registration is required to join the Zoom meeting. This helps protect the session from "trolls" and helps protect participants' security. 

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrc-qtqjgiGNLfeMNafYzDbqVfP4LElcd7

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The practice will be led by Venerable Lhamo.

Participating in person at Kadampa Center:  Please adhere to COVID protocols and plan to arrive before 9:00 am to find seating and to get settled.

Participating via Zoom:  Registration is required - click here to register, after which you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining via Zoom. Please log on no later than 9:00 am.

Each and every one is invited to come. You will find it to be a wonderful and relaxing way, not only to begin your day, but also your week.  All are welcome regardless of one's level of practice.
 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has recommended saying Tara mantras to benefit everyone affected by the COVID19 virus. In this brief practice, we will recite Praises to the Twenty-one Taras followed by chanting Green Tara's mantra, OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA We'll also take the opportunity to say hello to friends we've missed since closing the Center!

Registration required. Please click here to register.

This month's Management Team meeting will be held online only.

Practices to Develop Lamrim in Our Minds continues online!
Because of the coronavirus, Kadampa Center is remaining closed for gatherings, but we will offer the remainder of this course via online streaming on either Zoom or YouTube.
The course will be streamed on Wednesday nights at 7 pm and will last about 45 minutes. We're sorry, but there will be no option for Q&A.

Registration is required to attend the session via Zoom.

You can access the YouTube streaming at:  https://www.youtube.com/c/MediaKadampaCenter

Lama Tsongkhapa's Lamrim presents the entire path to enlightenment in a step-by-step fashion. Geshe Gelek advises that beyond study, we need meditation and thoughtful engagement in the text in order to have realizations.  Hearing the teachings is just the first step. In addition, we need merit-making practices to open the doors to deeper understanding. These include the great preliminary practices of prostrations to the 35 Confession Buddhas, Vajrasattva practice, making mandala offerings, and reciting the refuge and bodhicitta prayer.

In these practice sessions, we will combinethese preliminary practices, with additional prayer and meditation on selected lamrim texts.

For the online practice sessions, you can download the Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and Lamrim prayers  from FPMT's Foundation Store

You may also choose to simply listen and meditate on the meaning of the prayers.

The evening will include:

Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and meditation

Purification practice (on alternating weeks, we will do prostrations to the 35 Confession Buddhas and Vajrasattva practice)

Mandala offerings

Analytical meditation on selected lamrim texts

as well as other prayers

Led by Venerable Lhamo

Discovering Buddhism: Refuge in the Three Jewels continues online!
Because of the coronavirus, Kadampa Center is remaining closed for gatherings, but we will offer the remainder of this course via online-only streaming.
The course will be streamed on Monday nights at 7 pm and will last about 45 minutes. We're sorry, but there will be no option for Q&A.
You can access the streaming at:

This class is led by Robbie Watkins