Regular Practice
Our center organizes regular Dharma practice sessions, typically held every Sunday from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. These sessions provide participants with the valuable opportunity to come together, cultivate a collective virtues, and accumulate merits through the practice. Joining these gatherings allows individuals to deepen their connection with Dharma and experience the benefits of group practice in a supportive and harmonious environment.
“Any Practice that we do for the benefit of sentient beings is a virtuous practice. So we should dedicate for the benefit of all sentient beings to become free from suffering and bring them to Buddhahood.”
- Ven. Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche
White Tara Practice
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H.E. Garchen Rinpoche has extensively taught about the profound benefits of White Tara practice. White Tara, with her radiant white body akin to a thousand autumn moons, bestows peace, prosperity, health, and long life through her enlightened activities. Her third eye symbolizes her perception of the unity of ultimate reality, while her other eyes perceive the dualistic world. With eyes on her hands and feet, she guides all actions with wisdom and compassion. White Tara is a compassionate and protective mother, offering boundless kindness and shelter to those immersed in suffering. By reciting her mantra and establishing a connection with her, we come closer to cultivating her enlightened qualities within ourselves.
Chenrezig Practice
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Chenrezig, also known as Avalokiteshvara, is a prominent figure in Tibetan Buddhism. As the embodiment of compassion, Chenrezig is revered as a bodhisattva who hears the cries of all sentient beings and tirelessly works to eliminate suffering, offering boundless love and assistance to those in need.
By cultivating a deep connection with Chenrezig, individuals can tap into the transformative power of compassion, enhancing their own capacity for empathy, kindness, and selflessness.
Medicine Buddha Practice
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Medicine Buddha is a Buddhist deity associated with health and well-being. During this practice, we make heartfelt prayers that everyone, including ourselves, our loved ones, and all sentient beings, will be healed of all sickness and will become free of all suffering.
Medicine Buddha is one of many Buddhas who have attained the state of perfect enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings. Sangye Menla, who is sky-blue in color, has attained the enlightened mind free of all negativity, a mind that has perfected all positive qualities.
His beautiful blue body signifies omniscient wisdom and compassion as vast as limitless space, and he is particularly associated with healing both mental and physical suffering.
Making a connection with him, practicing meditation, reciting his mantra or even just saying his name helps us achieve our potential for ultimate healing.
Drikung Phowa Practice
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Phowa, or “transference of consciousness at the time of death,” is the simplest and most direct method to attain enlightenment.
If phowa occurs correctly, the consciousness of the departed is reborn instantly in the pure land of Dewachen, avoiding other dangerous rebirths. It is one of the Six Yogas of Naropa.
While there are many marvelous fascinating phowa instructions in the various tantric traditions, the Drikung Phowa lineage, whose Tibetan name "Jaktshukma" means "the standing grass blade," is one of the most powerful and precious phowa practices still taught today.
Phowa jagtsukma instructions are presently upheld in an unbroken lineage through the Drikung masters. The Drikung order is famous for its ability to successfully transfer the power of the phowa meditation to initiated and devoted practitioners who practice it.
*Strictly for initiates who have received the teaching of Drikung Phowa Practice.
Drikung Fivefold Path of Mahamudra Preliminary Practice
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"In my view the Ngöndro is far more profound than all other practices."
—Lord Jigten Sumgön, founder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage
The preliminaries (called “Ngöndro” in Tibetan) make our mind workable for practice. Doing this practice is like preparing a field so that crops may grow there. If a field is unprepared to bear crops, then no matter how precious the seeds to be planted, they will be useless. Similarly, although we might receive very precious and profound instructions, if our minds are not properly prepared, those instructions will not be useful. Thus, all schools of Tibetan Buddhism engage in the immeasurably important preliminary practices. The specific practices include prostrations, taking refuge, purification practices, making offerings to the Three Jewels and Three Roots, and so forth.
The preliminary practices should never be viewed as lesser because they are "preliminary," for they may become the main part of our practice. It is actually sufficient to engage in these exact practices for our entire lives. To participate in Preliminary Practice requires empowerment or transmission, which can be provided by our resident teacher, Ven. Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche. Please feel free to contact the centre for more details.
Amitabha Practice
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Amitabha Buddha is bright red in color. Within the circle of the five Buddha families, Amitabha is the Buddha of Infinite Light who presides over the western Buddha realm of the Pure Land of Great Bliss, known as Dewachen. He bears this name Infinite Light, because the light radiating from his body pervades all the pure lands of all the Buddhas of those ten directions.
Many eons ago, he manifested the Pure Land of Great Bliss at the time he accomplished Buddhahood. After death, faithful devotees of Amitabha are born into the pure land, where they receive teachings from Amitabha himself and from countless other Buddhas inhabiting this realm.Experiencing none of cyclic existence and forever free from having to take lower rebirth, these fortunate beings progress irreversibly toward enlightenment and eventually attain Buddhahood.
Also, Drigar Thubten Dargye Ling hosts an annual retreat on the practice of Amitabha with H.E Garchen Rinpoche. This is an important and highly beneficial opportunity.
