by Lou DeSantis | Jul 8, 2025
In Person and Zoom Join us for a special opportunity to receive the Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows from Geshe Thubten Sherab. These profound commitments mark the heart of the Buddhist path—taking refuge in the Three Jewels and embracing the bodhisattva’s vow to...
by Lou DeSantis | Jul 5, 2025
In Person and Zoom Join us on this Holy Day as we offer the 8 Mahayana Precepts, the recitation of the Sutra of Golden Light, and a Shakyamuni Buddha Meditation. Open door, open heart. Donations are always optional.
by Nina Highfill | Jul 5, 2025
Join us on Saka Dawa Duchen – a holy day in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar – for the recitation of the Sutra of Golden Light. On this powerful day, which commemorates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana, the effects of virtuous actions are...
by Lou DeSantis | Jun 14, 2025
A tsog offering, typically held on the tenth and twenty-fifth of the Tibetan lunar calendar, is done in conjunction with the practice of Guru Puja, in Tibetan, Lama Chopa (or the buddha Vajrasattva). It is a series of offerings and requests to the spiritual teacher in...
by Lou DeSantis | Jan 31, 2025
Once a month, on the eighth of the Tibetan month, we perform The Four Mandala Offerings to Cittamani Tara. She is known as the liberator from the fears of samsara and is an embodiment of enlightened action, one of the three essential qualities of a buddha (the others...