Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, (1 hour) 8am-9am
Please check our calendar in case of cancellations 

Heart Jewel includes two practices: Prayers to our Spiritual Guide visualized as the wisdom Buddha, Je Tsongkhapa, during which we purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings. There are 2 pauses for silent meditation: 15 minutes for Lamrim meditation and 5 minutes for receiving the Guru’s blessings. 

The second part of this practice contains prayers to the wisdom Buddha and Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden, to help us overcome obstacles to our practice.

By relying upon this practice, we will naturally gain authentic, heart-felt experience of our meditations, and in particular we will attain a very special Dharma wisdom. 

The prayer booklet available from Tharpa Publications is called Heart Jewel. You can find Lamrim meditations in The New Meditation Handbook also from Tharpa Publications.

Wednesdays, (1 hour) 5:00pm-6pm
Please check our calendar in case WFJ has been rescheduled

This practice is similar to Heart Jewel except that instead of a 15-minute meditation we make a tsog offering, an offering of food and drink to the enlightened beings, enjoyed by everyone after the prayers.

These prayers are essential for creating a strong Dharma practice and a strong Dharma community.

The prayer booklet available from Tharpa Publications is called Wishfulfilling Jewel.

On the 10th and 25th of the month (1.5 hours)
Times are on our calendar.

The practice of relying upon a Spiritual Guide, or ‘Guru Yoga’, is the root of the spiritual path and the foundation of all spiritual attainments.

Offering to the Spiritual Guide is a special Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa. The main practice is developing a special view of our Spiritual Guide as the wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and making offerings, praises and requests to him. Because Je Tsongkhapa has qualities of compassion, wisdom and spiritual power, by relying upon him these same qualities in us naturally increase. 

This practice includes beautiful and inspiring verses on the stages of the path (Lamrim), training the mind (Lojong), and the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra. It also includes a tsog offering – offerings of food and drink that are enjoyed by everyone after the prayers.

The prayer booklet available from Tharpa Publications is called Offering to the Spiritual Guide.

Once a month, usually at the end of the month (45 minutes)
You’ll the find the date and time on our calendar.

Every month we hold a special ceremony for all those who have recently died, including animals and insects. It is a traditional Buddhist practice of “Powa” or transference of consciousness, whereby we pray for the consciousness of the deceased to be transferred to Avalokiteshvara’s Pure Land, or heaven.    

The prayer booklet available from Tharpa Publications is called Powa Ceremony.