Group pujas
Chanted Prayers

Chanted prayers are special methods for purifying negativity, accumulating merit and receiving blessings, they help us to develop and maintain a positive mind and are a powerful preparation for meditation.

 

Everyone is welcome to attend all chanted prayers at KMC Manchester, except those prayers that require a Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment; these are clearly marked below. There is no need to book, and no fee.

Everybody is welcome!

Wishfulfilling Jewel

Prayers addressed to the Wisdom Buddha, Je Tsongkhapa, and the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. 

Through this practice, we can purify our negativities, accumulate spiritual energy (or merit), receive inspiration, and attain powerful compassion, wisdom and spiritual power. We can also overcome obstacles to our spiritual progress and create the right conditions for our inner qualities to grow.

Duration: Approx. 1h 15min

Everyday: please check our calendar

Offering to the Spiritual Guide

Prayers addressed to our Spiritual Guide, which contain all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and the training of the mind (Lojong) as well as the generation stage and the completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. 

By relying on our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power and especially our wisdom will grow naturally.

Duration: Approx. 1h 45min

On the 10th & 25th of every month: please check our calendar

Melodious Drum in All Directions

Long prayers to the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden. A Dharma Protector always helps, guides and protects practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom, fulfilling their positive wishes and granting success in all their virtuous activities. 

This practice is usually done once a month at Kadampa Buddhist centres. We rely on the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden, who we recognise as inseparable from our Spiritual Guide and Buddha, to restore any commitments we may have broken or allowed to deteriorate..

Duration: Approx. 3h 15min (with a break)

Usually on the 29th of every month: please check our calendar

Liberation from Sorrow

Prayers of request to the twenty-one manifestations of Tara, our Holy Mother. Tara is a female Buddha, the ultimate wisdom manifestation of all the Buddhas. 

Her name means ‘Rescuer’ because she frees us from all fears, external and internal. Just as a mother protects us from all inner and outer dangers, Tara brings together all the conditions necessary for our spiritual progress.

Duration: Approx. 1 hour

On the 8th of every month: please check our calendar

Powa - Transference of consciousness for the deceased

When we practise transference of consciousness, or ‘powa’, with faith, compassion and concentration, we can transfer the consciousness of those who have recently died to a higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha. 

The powa ceremony can be performed by a single person or a group of practitioners for the sake of one or more deceased people, as well as for the sake of countless people who have died recently. By performing this practice, we also create a vast collection of merit that will also lead us on the path to the Pure Land of a Buddha.

Duration: Approx. 1 hour

Once a month: please check our calendar

Pure life - The 8 mahayana precepts

A special practice of moral discipline that is performed with the motivation of bodhichitta (the determination to attain the enlightened state of a Buddha in order to help living beings). T

he essence of this practice is to make eight commitments and try to keep them for a period of 24 hours. This practice helps us solve the problems of this life by avoiding the causes of suffering. It also creates the cause for future fortunate rebirths. We must first receive these precepts from a qualified preceptor, and then we can take them on our own as often as we wish.

Duration: Approx. 45 min

Every 15th at 6.30am: please check our calendar

35 Confession Buddhas

One of the most powerful purification practices is the Mahayana Sutra of the Three Superior Heaps, also known as The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Moral Downfalls. 

In this practice, we visualize the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas and practise purification in their presence. Through the power of their blessings and prayers, we can swiftly purify even the heaviest negative actions simply by faithfully reciting their names.

Duration: Approx. 40min

Coming soon

Vajrayogini Prayers

Quick Path to Great Bliss is the extensive ritual prayer for spiritual attainment that contains the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas.

Blissful Path is the short ritual prayer for spiritual attainment of self-generation of Vajrayogini.

Duration: Approx. 1h 20min

Please check our calendar

Please note: HYT Empowerment required to attend this practice

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