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Chanted Buddhist Prayer

MAKING PROGRESS IN OUR PRACTISE:

Spiritual Training

Tushita KMC holds regular sessions of Chanted Buddhist Prayers, or pujas, which include meditation, visualisation, and mantra recitation. Through engaging in the chanted prayers we will receive powerful blessings from enlightened beings that will help us to overcome obstacles and swiftly make progress in our spiritual training.

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Chanted Buddhist Prayer: A person holding a Mala Beads whilst counting mantra in a prayer session

“In general, prayers made by an assembly of many practitioners are very powerful and cannot be compared to the prayers of one or two people. The scriptures give the analogy of a broom. If we try to clean a floor with a few bristles we shall make little progress, but if we gather many bristles to make a broom we shall be successful.”

Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

Chanted Prayer Schedule

Buddhist Art work of Je Tsongkharpa

Offering to the Spiritual Guide

10th and 25th of the month

Gen Kelsang Namkhyen

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tushita KMC
Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre, 47 Trill Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
Offering to the Spiritual Guide is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra. It was compiled by the first Panchen Lama, Losang Chökyi Gyaltsän, as a preliminary practice for Vajra-yana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon the Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of […]

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Buddhist Art work of Green Tara sitting on a lotus holding an Umpala

Green Tara Puja

8th of the month

Gen Kelsang Namkhyen

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tushita KMC
Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre, 47 Trill Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
Tara practice is one of the most beloved of Buddhist chanted prayers. At Kadampa Centers worldwide, the eighth of the month is Tara Day. Tara is a female Buddha, whose name means Rescuer. She is a wisdom Buddha, the embodiment of swift compassion, and the manifestation of the completely purified wind element. Tara is therefore […]

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Avalokiteshvara

Powa Ceremony

When required

Gen Kelsang Namkhyen

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tushita KMC
Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre, 47 Trill Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
Through practising transference of consciousness, known as ‘powa’ with faith, compassion and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those recently deceased to a higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha. The Powa Ceremony can be done either by a group of practitioners or individually on behalf of one or more deceased persons, or […]

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Dorje Shugden

Long Protector Puja

29th of the month

Gen Kelsang Namkhyen

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tushita KMC
Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre, 47 Trill Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
Everyone is welcome. This practice consists of five parts: Praise to Manjushri, the Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa, Self-generation as Heruka, the Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual of the General Protectors, and the Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual of the Great King Dorje Shugden. Of these, the last is the principal practice.

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Je Tsongkharpa Buddhist Artwork sitting on a lotus

Heart Jewel/ Wishfulfilling Jewel

Weekly on a Friday

Gen Kelsang Namkhyen

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tushita KMC
Tushita Kadampa Meditation Centre, 47 Trill Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
These prayers include two practices revealed by the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. The first is a special Guru yoga in which we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri. The second practice is a method for relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. These two practices are the very […]

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