Sunday Morning Practice
Gar Drolma Buddhist Center 1329 Creighton Ave., Dayton, OH, United StatesMorning meditation will consist of several practices beginning with opening prayers, recitations and guided meditations.
Morning meditation will consist of several practices beginning with opening prayers, recitations and guided meditations.
In this practice one visualizes Amitabha and his retinue and recites his six syllable mantra. Through this practice we purify our obscurations and accumulate merit and wisdom while cultivating the causes […]
On Thursdays from 6-7:30 p.m. we will meet to discuss and practice the preliminaries (ngondro). All current ngondro practitioners, regardless of the lineage you follow and version of the practice that you engage in are welcome.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Teachings and Practices on Living and Dying by Venerable Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche 4-Day Closed Commitment Retreat This retreat will also include special teachings from Garchen Rinpoche via Skype on Friday […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche will bestow the White Tara Empowerment. White Tara represents the embodiment of enlightened perfection of wisdom and the true nature of mind, as well as health and […]
Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro Rinpoche will teach an incredible text on mind training by the great master Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima titled Turning Happiness and Suffering Into […]
Join us at Gar Drolma for an incredible evening of teachings, live from Washington D.C. !
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 […]
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 […]
Khenpo Gawang will give four sessions of teaching about contemplative meditation on the Four Seals based on his excellent book "Your Mind is Your Teacher".
Gar Drolma is thrilled to welcome back Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. Rinpoche is a beloved teacher from the Nyingma and Karma Kagyu traditions.
We are fortunate to have our teacher Khenpo Samdup Rinpoche offer these teachings and participate in the discussion when available. When Khenpo is unable to attend a senior student will […]
HH Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche encouraged us to look to the sutras for the direct words of the Buddha in his advice for 21st Century practitioners. In the sutras we find […]