Mondays: 19:00 to 20:00

Meditation for Beginners

with Jay Simpson

This drop-in session will enable you to experience and learn basic meditation techniques to help you unwind, de-stress and calm your mind.

Suggested donation £4.00 per evening

Wednesdays: 19:00 to 21:00 on  30 Apr

Guided Lam Rim Meditation

Join with others to reflect and engage more deeply with Lam Rim meditations.
These group guided meditations are a wonderful way of maintaining the
energy of retreat and daily practice.

Suggested donation £5.50 per evening

Also Lama Choepa Tsog Puja

Highlight - Puja, meditation and practice

Thursdays: 19:00- 20.30
with Ven Mary, Bob Smith or Bob Charlton

Most sessions will concentrate on the powerful Medicine Buddha Puja.

“Puja also means gathering. We gather together offerings and we gather
together practitioners in unison, to do the practice. We make an all-out effort to concentrate on the same space that stretches before our minds.
Understandably, individuals in group practice experience much stronger
inspirations than one can possibly feel while doing it all by oneself. In general, it has to be much better than just doing puja alone in our own rooms. “ : Lama Yeshe .

Everyone is welcome, Pujas are a community event. They are
energising and highly beneficial, so please come along.

Tsog and Lama Choepa (Guru Puja)

Twice a month, based on the lunar calendar, we do the Lama Chopa tsog.
Lama means Guru; Chopa means offering; and tsog means gathering or
party. The dates are published in the Jamyang programme. It starts at 7.00 in
the evening and lasts for under an hour and a half. We can each bring an
offering of some flowers or good quality food or non-alcoholic drink, which is
placed on the shrine. The food is distributed amongst the participants during
the ceremony, and can be eaten then, and/or taken home afterwards.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes it as a ceremony of prayer, chanting, music,
meditation and a ritual feast, directly appealing to our senses and emotions.
Lama Chopa provides an opportunity for those practising tantra to restore
and reaffirm their vows and pledges. But everyone is welcome to attend this
ceremony of making extensive offerings, actual and imagined, to the
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and particularly the Lama, and of accumulating
the positive energy needed to progress along the spiritual path.

The Lama Chopa text was composed by the first Panchen Lama, Losang
Chokyi Gyaltsen (1570-1662). It is said to bring together all the essential
practices of Lam Rim (stages of the path), Lojong (mind training) and Highest Yoga Tantra. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, according to Geshe Tashi, describes Lama Chopa as one of the main Highest Yoga Tantra practices, but traditionally as a group practice, it can be practised by anyone.

Thursdays: 20.00 to 21:00 – 6th Mar, 3rd Apr, 1 May

Purification Practices
with Venerable Mary or Bob Charlton

These sessions will be practical purification sessions concentrating on eitherthe 35 Confessional Buddhas Prostration Practice or the Vajrasattva
Purification practice (short version).

 

Meditation for Beginners

with Jay Simpson

This drop-in session will enable you to experience and learn basic meditation techniques to help you unwind, de-stress and calm your mind.  
Suggested donation: £4.00 per evening

Buddhist Meditation Techniques with Geshe Tashi Tsering

       Friday 9 May 2008 - 19:00-21:00 
 Saturday 10 May 2008  10:00-16:30
  Sunday 11 May 2008 - 10:00-13:00

 New - Join us for!

13:30 Community Sunday Brunch

 

Buddhist Meditation Techniques with Geshe Tashi Tsering
Friday 9 May 2008 - 19:00-21:00
Saturday 10 May 2008 – 10:00-16:30
Sunday 11 May 2008 - 10:00-13:00

 

Buddhist Meditation Techniques

with Geshe Tashi Tsering

      Friday 9 May 2008 - 19:00 - 21:00
Saturday 10 May 2008 -10:00 -16:30
  Sunday 11 May 2008 - 10:00 -13:00

13.30 - join us for Community Sunday Brunch

Meditation for Beginners

with Jay Simpson

This drop-in session will enable you to experience and learn basic meditation techniques to help you unwind, de-stress and calm your mind.  
Suggested donation: £4.00 per evening

Tuesdays: 19:00 to 20:30

Medicine Buddha Puja

Concentrating on the powerful Medicine Buddha puja these sessions are becoming more and more popular. 

Pujas are a community event which are energising and highly beneficial. 

At the end of every month we will also do the short Vajrasattva purification practice. 

Everyone is welcome. 

 PLEASE NOTE - Now on Tuesdays

Tuesdays: 19:00 to 20:30

Medicine Buddha Puja

Concentrating on the powerful Medicine Buddha puja these sessions are becoming more and more popular. 

Pujas are a community event which are energising and highly beneficial. 

At the end of every month we will also do the short Vajrasattva purification practice. 

Everyone is welcome. 

Thursdays: 19.00 to 21:00 – 15th May to 19th June

Buddhism in a Nutshell – a five week course

with David Midgley or Ven Mary

This well structured introductory course provides a general overview of basic Buddhist philosophy and principles for beginners.

Suggested donation: £5.50 per evening.

Meditation for Beginners

with Jay Simpson

This drop-in session will enable you to experience and learn basic meditation techniques to help you unwind, de-stress and calm your mind.  
Suggested donation: £4.00 per evening

 PLEASE NOTE - Now on Tuesdays

Tuesdays: 19:00 to 20:30

Medicine Buddha Puja

Concentrating on the powerful Medicine Buddha puja these sessions are becoming more and more popular. 

Pujas are a community event which are energising and highly beneficial. 

At the end of every month we will also do the short Vajrasattva purification practice. 

Everyone is welcome. 

Tuesdays: 19:00 to 20:30

Medicine Buddha Puja

Concentrating on the powerful Medicine Buddha puja these sessions are becoming more and more popular. 

Pujas are a community event which are energising and highly beneficial. 

At the end of every month we will also do the short Vajrasattva purification practice. 

Everyone is welcome. 

Thursdays: 19.00 to 21:00 – 15th May to 19th June

Buddhism in a Nutshell – a five week course

with David Midgley or Ven Mary

This well structured introductory course provides a general overview of basic Buddhist philosophy and principles for beginners.

Suggested donation: £5.50 per evening.

Sat 24th and Sun 25th May

A series of Talks on Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Mon 26th to Wed 28th May

Investigating the Nature of Reality

"Praise to the Buddha for His Discourse on Dependent Origination" Tsongkhapa

Vajrasattva Initiation

Sat 24th and Sun 25th May

A series of Talks on Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Mon 26th to Wed 28th May

Investigating the Nature of Reality

"Praise to the Buddha for His Discourse on Dependent Origination" Tsongkhapa

Vajrasattva Initiation

Sat 24th and Sun 25th May

A series of Talks on Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Mon 26th to Wed 28th May

Investigating the Nature of Reality

"Praise to the Buddha for His Discourse on Dependent Origination" Tsongkhapa

Vajrasattva Initiation

Meditation for Beginners

with Jay Simpson

This drop-in session will enable you to experience and learn basic meditation techniques to help you unwind, de-stress and calm your mind.  
Suggested donation: £4.00 per evening

Sat 24th and Sun 25th May

A series of Talks on Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Mon 26th to Wed 28th May

Investigating the Nature of Reality

"Praise to the Buddha for His Discourse on Dependent Origination" Tsongkhapa

Vajrasattva Initiation

Sat 24th and Sun 25th May

A series of Talks on Bringing Meaning to Our Lives

Mon 26th to Wed 28th May

Investigating the Nature of Reality

"Praise to the Buddha for His Discourse on Dependent Origination" Tsongkhapa

Vajrasattva Initiation