Practices

OUR GOMPA
(MEDITATION and TEACHING ROOM) 

We hold the following deity practices in our gompa (Tibetan for Meditation Room), usually weekly. Fortune smiled lovingly and kindly on us as our Founder and Mentor,  Khensur Kangurwa Rinpoche, taught and practiced in our gompa for 8 years.  He wrote a personal letter to His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama requesting that he come to Adelaide and bless our centre. Remarkably, in 2014, with profound compassion and love, His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama graced our centre, blessing our Gompa by his physical presence as he sat upon the throne, reciting prayers and imparting a personal teaching to us!!  Such a remarkable moment is extremely rare indeed!
The beauty, tranquillity and spiritual potency of this sacred space combine to open the heart and focus the mind on virtue.

GREEN TARA PRACTICE
Second Sunday of the month at 11.45 – 12.45 pm.
Please check Tibetan Buddhist Institute calendar for dates

Why is it that some people when conducting business succeed where others fail?  Their success can be attributed to having accumulated merit in their past lives for its ripening to be experienced in this life.  Merit is positive energy created in the mind by doing virtuous actions with our body, speech and mind.  The recommended method to succeed in any of life’s pursuits is that of training our minds in bodhicitta (the aspiration to become enlightened in order to benefit all beings, stemming from heartfelt love and compassion).  Undertaking Green Tara practice involves: generation of bodhicitta, recitation (of prayers and of a mantra), visualisation, offering, purification, requesting and dedicating.  It includes recitation of a five-line prayer that requests Green Tara to bestow temporal and ultimate happiness.  During its repetition, individuals can make their own special requests for success in spiritual and worldly pursuits, such as finding a job, and for their own health and long life or for that of others.  Each session includes an explanation of the techniques, sourced from Khensur Rinpoche’s lineage, for new students to learn the practice, and for experienced students to progress.

MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE
Second Sunday of the month at 11.45 – 12.45 pm.
Please check the Tibetan Buddhist Institute calendar for dates
The great treatises teach that there are many physical or bodily diseases, but the Buddha taught that it is the illness of our mind which needs to be  cured. As the ‘King of the Doctors’, the Buddha prescribed the Dharma as the medicine, assuring us that once we eliminate all mental disease, the bodily diseases will eventually no longer cause us suffering. Quoting our Founder, Khensur Rinpoche, who said: “He who is able to eliminate mental disease… is the Buddha, hence the meaning of the Medicine Buddha mantra.
TAYATA  –  ‘This is the one’ or ‘This is the one who can heal’
BEKANDZE BEKANDZE  –   ‘Doctor Doctor’
MAHA BEKANDZE  –  ‘Great Doctor’
RANDZA  –  ‘King of the Doctors’
SAMUDGATE – ‘Please heal me from the disease’ is a term of entreaty

Therefore, in dependence on the Buddha we are able to eliminate the diseases of desire, of hatred and of ignorance which are the mental diseases”. (Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche in “A Commentary On Dharmarakshita’s The Wheel Of Sharp Weapons”, page 60)
As we are all in need of following the Buddha’s advice, quoting Shantideva “If the doctor’s instructions are ignored, how will a patient in need of a cure be healed by his medicines?” (Shantideva “A Guide To The Bodhisattva’s Way Of Life”, chapter 4, verse 48)

Medicine Buddha practice is offered once a month on a Sunday morning  at 11.45am and will be led by a knowledgeable and experienced student of Khensur Rinpoche.   All are welcome to attend this practice.

YAMANTAKA PRACTICE
9.30am Saturdays alternating each month with
Vajrayogini Practice
Please check the Tibetan Buddhist Institute calendar for dates 

The Yamantaka deity symbolises the wrathful aspect of the Buddhas’ wisdom, the destroyer of all our self-cherishing delusions. This practice will be led by a knowledgeable and experienced student of our Founder, the late Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche, who always urged students to attend together when possible. This session is being offered once a month on Saturday mornings at 9.30am.

In order to attend, it is required that you have been initiated by a fully qualified Lharampa Geshe.

VAJRAYOGINI PRACTICE
9.30am Saturdays alternating each month with
Yamantake Practice
Please check the Tibetan Buddhist Institute calendar for dates 

Vajrayogini, often described as the “dakini (female spirit), the essence of all the Buddhas”, who works to transform our ego-clinging passions into enlightened virtues. This practice will be led by a knowledgeable and experienced student of our Founder, the late Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche, who encouraged students to practice together when possible. This practice is being offered on Saturday mornings at 9.30am, once a month.

In order to attend, it is required have been initiated by a fully qualified Lharampa Geshe.

Our Gompa (Tibetan for Temple) is a sacred space which was blessed, in person, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Khensur Kangyur Rinpoche.  The Gompa also contains the blessings of the entire Buddhist canon, which is an immeasurable treasure!! The benefits of the practices are amplified by our combined efforts and the power of the Holy objects that surround us.