Chanted Meditations

at Dharmakirti Buddhist Center

These Buddhist prayers are methods that combine singing and visualization to heal and uplift our hearts and minds, to overcome negativity, to increase our positive energy, and to receive blessings. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Heart Jewel

This practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. It prepares our mind for Lamrim meditation and combines Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa with prayers to our Dharma Protector Dorje Shugdan. Includes 20 minutes for silent meditation.
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 am
Thursday 5:00 pm

Wishfulfilling Jewel

This is the Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa combined with more extensive prayers to the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugdan. Includes a ‘tsog offering’ – special offerings for receiving blessings and spiritual protection. Please bring an offering of food.
Fridays 10:00am

Offering to the Spiritual Guide

This special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa is a way of relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha while making praises and requests for wisdom and compassion. Includes a ‘tsog offering’ – special offerings for receiving blessings and spiritual protection. Please bring an offering of food.
On or around the 10th and 25th, see calendar for specific date and time.

Liberation from Sorrow, Praises and Requests to Tara

By offering praises and requests to Arya Tara, the female Buddha who is our swift compassionate mother, we come under her special care and protection.
Monday mornings following Heart Jewel

Medicine Buddha Puja

We engage in the practice of Medicine Buddha to overcome pain and suffering from physical and mental illness and to receive special blessings of body, speech and mind. In the sadhana we offer healing prayers to benefit all beings.
Mondays 5:30 pm

Avalokiteshvara Puja

This sadhana is the method of practice of Avalokiteshvara, who embodies the compassion of all the Buddhas. By engaging in this practice and through recitation of his mantra, we draw close to the same qualities of love and compassion for the benefit of ourselves and others.
Thursdays 6:00 pm

Vajrasattva Puja

Through practicing the meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification, we cleanse and purify our minds of delusion and karmic negativities.
Wednesday mornings following Heart Jewel

Protector Puja

These are prayers to the Dharma Protector, Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugdan. A Dharma Protector averts inner and outer obstacles to our gaining spiritual realizations and provides necessary conditions for our spiritual practice. Includes a ‘tsog offering’ – special offerings for receiving blessings and spiritual protection. Please bring an offering of food..
On or around the 29th, see calendar for specific date and time