Prayers
6-7pm, rotates around Green Tara Puja, Medicine Buddha Puja, Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri. Held in the main prayer hall. Open to members and non-members.
930-1030am, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (first Sunday of the month), Black Dzambhala prayer or Smoke Puja (second Sunday of the month)
Held every three months. It is called Riwo Sangcho and it is a type of Sang offering. Sang offering is to offer the smoke from precious ingredients to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, earthly deities, all sentient beings and to our enemies and debtor
LUNAR NEW YEAR – around January end. Gutor and Amitayus Long Life Puja
CHING MING FESTIVAL – around April. 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Buddhas prayer and Amitayus Long Life Prayer
GHOST MONTH – around mid August. 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Buddhas prayer and Amitayus Long Life Prayer
Classes and Retreats
Every Saturday. Basic Course is 2-3pm. Middle Course is from 330-430pm. here. It consists of 3 Levels – Basic, Middle and Advanced Courses. 12 classes each. To progress to the Middle Course, the student must finish the requirements of the Basic Course. For more info, check the ‘Resources’ page.
Held during Holy Week. This is a 3-day fasting practice about 1000-Armed, 11-Face Chenrezig. It involves food and water fasting at certain times. It also involves complete silence. The prayers, fasting and silence purify our many negative Karma. It begins on a Friday and ends in the middle of the Sunday.
Ngondro (Tibetan: preliminary practices) is a 5-set practice of accumulations. These are: prostrations, reciting refuge vows, reciting Vajrasattva 100-syllable mantra, mandala offering and reciting the 7-line Guru Rinpoche prayer for Guru Yoga. The Ngondro practices of our temple follows the Namchoe (Tib: Sky Dharma) lineage.
Charity
Annual donation and gift-giving to the residents of a few Barangays around the temple. Held in the temple every last week of December. This has been a tradition since Dec 2009.
Annual visit and donation to Mother Theresa’s Missionaries of Charity at Delpan, Manila. Held every first week of January. Since Jan 2008.
On a regular basis.