Chanted Meditations
Chanted meditations or prayers, known as ‘pujas,’ are special methods for purifying negativity, accumulating merit and receiving blessings.
They help us to develop and maintain a positive mind and are a powerful preparation for meditation.
Our main practice is Wishfulfilling Jewel, which includes time for silent meditation. The community comes together for these prayers every weekday from 4.45 – 6pm, and weekends 7 – 8.15pm, and you are welcome to join us.
Everyone is welcome to attend all the pujas apart from Highest Yoga Tantra pujas, which are for HYT practitioners only.
There is no need to book, and no fee.
Weekly Puja Schedule
See the calendar for upcoming pujas.
Prayers for World Peace
Prayers for World Peace is a free prayer and meditation session that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart. It includes two guided meditations, a talk, and inspiring prayers for world peace. Fortnightly on Sundays.
Wishfulfilling Jewel
A Guru yoga practise combined with meditation on the stages of the path to enlightenment (Lamrim), and prayers to the Dharma Protector. Wishfulfilling Jewel pujas on Thursdays include a tsog, or food, offering: feel free to bring offerings if you wish.
Powa Ceremony
We do these short prayers regularly on behalf of those who have recently died. Powa means ‘transference of consciousness’, and is a special method to help the deceased, both humans and animals, take rebirth in a Buddha’s Pure Land, a place free from suffering.
Vajrayogini Practice: Dakini Yoga & Quick Path
A Highest Yoga Tantra practice of Vajrayogini open only to those who have received the appropriate empowerment.
Offering to the Spiritual Guide
A special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa that is related to Highest Yoga Tantra, and forms a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra.
Feast of Great Bliss
A special Tantric ceremony for people who have received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment of Vajrayogini and completed a close retreat.
Melodious Drum
A ceremony for fulfilling and restoring the commitments of the Dharma Protector, open to all.
Prayers to other Buddhas
We organise the group practice of various sadhanas, usually on the first Tuesday of each month. If you have received an empowerment of that particular Buddha, you are welcome to come along.