Precious Human Birth Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

This teaching points out the factors that must be present in our lives for us to encounter and practice Dharma. Contemplating this helps us develop gratitude for the incredible fortune […]

Impermanence Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will teach the method for contemplating Impermanence and Death. Understanding impermanence and the certainty of death and developing a deep appreciation for these truths through sustained contemplation inspires us […]

Karma Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will give detailed teachings on the functions of karma, including descriptions of positive actions to adopt and negative actions to abandon.  When we develop trust in the principles of […]

Defects of Samsara Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Instructions will be given on the method of contemplating the sufferings experienced by beings in the 6 realms of existence.  Contemplating the defects of samsaric experience further strengthens our resolve […]

Chenrezig Empowerment Loving Kindness Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will bestow the empowerment (wang) verbal transmission (lung) and practice instructions (tri) of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion. This practice helps us to access or innate nature of wisdom […]

Compassion Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will explain the traditional contemplations for generating and strengthening compassion.  Time:   10:00am - 12:00pm Lunch: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Time:    1:30pm - 4:30pm Cost $25 per day or $40 weekend

Bodhisattva Vows and Bodhicitta Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will explain the method for generating the two types of bodhicitta (aspiration and application). Additionally, he will confer the bodhisattva vows and explain how to uphold the conduct of […]

Shamatha Calm-abiding Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will give detailed instructions in shamatha meditation. This practice allow us to gradually develop the minds ability to stay focused on a chosen object. This induces a state of […]

Vipassana Insight Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Khenpo will explain how to use traditional techniques of analysis and investigation to come to understand and directly experience the fundamental nature of mind and phenomena.  July 22 and July […]

Completion Stage Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Generation Stage is one of the principal techniques of Buddhist Tantra. In these practices, by means of visualization and mantra recitation we gradually shift our perceptions away from confusion and […]

Flight of Garuda Teaching and Meditation

Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United States

Dzogchen teachings based on the classic text "The Flight of the Garuda." This text presents the key point of the Dzogchen view and practice in the form of beautiful, spontaneous […]