Weekly & Daily Puja

Daily 9am -10am

The Daily Green Tara Puja is a revered Tibetan Buddhist ritual that involves invoking the compassionate and swift-acting deity, Green Tara. Practitioners engage in chanting, meditation, and visualization to seek her blessings for protection, guidance, and the swift removal of obstacles. The puja is believed to cultivate inner qualities such as wisdom, compassion, and fearlessness, while promoting a sense of well-being and spiritual progress in daily life.

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Daily 5pm -6pm

Mahakala is a Dharma Protector. Mahakala puja helps to clear obstacles to our Dharma practice and creates auspicious circumstances for the spreading of Dharma.

Mahakala stands in the midst of a mountain of flames to symbolize that no enemies of the Dharma can withstand this wrathful appearance; the sharp chopper, which he holds aloft in one hand, symbolizes the cutting through of negative patterns, aggression, hatred, ignorance, the five poisons.

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Alternative Sunday 9am -11am

Chenrezig is the embodiment of compassion and through this practice we aim to awaken the same qualities of loving-kindness and compassion in ourselves. It is easily accessible and, as such, is a great introduction to Tibetan Buddhist practice and prayer for people new to this tradition. Chenrezig practice can be practiced without empowerment but if you have a chance to take it, it is recommended. If you are doing this practice regularly, it is recommended that you will get a reading transmission for the practice.

Alternative Sunday 9am - 11am

​The Medicine Buddha, (Sangye Menla), is the Buddha of health and healing, both the outer, physical, and the inner, mental. His form is a deep blue colour, like that of the lapis lazuli semi-precious stone. His practice is considered to be a very powerful method for healing and increasing the restorative powers of oneself and others. Also it helps to overcome the inner sickness of attachment, hatred and ignorance, and so to meditate on the Medicine Buddha can help to decrease physical and mental illness and suffering.

Alternative Sunday 9am - 11am

Prayers to Guru Rinpoche are considered to be increasingly potent during these difficult times, and he is often invoked for protection and the removing obstacles.

Once a month we will do Konchok Chidu, “The Embodiment of the Precious Ones”, puja which is a Guru Rinpoche sadhana that encompasses the Three Roots.

Konchok Chidu sadhana is also a Guru Yoga practice, one of the most profound, the highest and most secret way of accomplishing the mind of Guru Rinpoche. It helps to avert spiritual obstacles and pacifies all negativity on the path to enlightenment.

Alternative Sunday 9am -11am

This puja is connected with the Pureland called Dewachen. Within this buddha-realm resides Buddha Amitabha, known in Tibetan as Öpamé, meaning 'Immeasurable Light' or 'Limitless Radiance' because light-rays from his body pervade every buddha-realm, illuminating them all. He is also known as Buddha Amitayus, or in Tibetan Tsépamé, meaning 'Immeasurable Life', because the extent of his life cannot be calculated. His body is as red as ruby, which symbolises the warmth of his compassion extending to all beings.

Due to Amitabha's strong wishing-prayers, anyone who makes a sincere wishing-prayer to go to Déwachen can be reborn there, even though one has not purified unvirtuous karma nor liberated oneself from the disturbing emotions.

Alternative Sunday 9am -11am

The Yellow Jambhala is considered the most popular and powerful of the Wealth Gods. He is the emanation of Buddha Ratnasambhava. He can remove poverty within the six realms, increase virtues, life span and wisdom. He is also said to be an emanation of Vaisravana, one of the "Four Great World-protecting Heavenly Kings".

Alternative Sunday 9am - 11am

Shakyamuni Buddha Puja is a source of good collections: a rite of homage, worship (making offerings) and prayers to the teacher, the King of Sages, remembering his previous lives and biography.

The main point of the puja is to develop one's faith in the Buddha and collect vast merits by thinking about the wonderful things he has done - both in his countless previous lives as a bodhisattva and in his life as Shakyamuni, feeling joyful about them and making offerings, both real and visualized. The framework of the central part of the puja is the seven limbs. These are preceded by various preliminaries aimed at getting the participants into the right frame of mind and at setting up the visualization of the field of merit, to whom the seven limbs are addressed. One also purifies one's negative karmas by confessing them with regret and creates further merits by auspicious wishes and prayers for the flourishing of the Buddha's doctrine. These are followed by prayers which comprise the extensive limb of dedication and then saying goodbye to the beings in the field of merit.