Everyone Welcome to Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre
We offer Study and Meditation programmes in Modern Buddhism. Everyone is warmly welcome at Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Penang and the surrounding area. With a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, you don’t have to be Buddhist to enjoy and benefit from our classes and events. We teach Buddha’s highly practical meditation techniques and insights, that can help everyone reduce their stress, increase their inner peace, happiness and well-being.
SPECIAL EVENT
Post SEADC Retreat, Tue 8 - Wed 9 Apr
Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Lamchung will guide a post Dharma Celebration retreat at Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre. Engaging in retreat directly after the festival allows us to deepen our experience and understanding of the teachings. You are welcome to join the retreat even if you do not attend the Dharma Celebration.
Further details coming soon. Contact Prajna +60 17-498 8937.
EVENTS AT VAJRAPANI CENTRE
The New Year is a very auspicious time of the year, especially for making connection with Buddha Amitayus.
In this retreat we will engage in chanted prayers and mantra recitation to Buddha Amitayus – requesting blessings to help us to increase our lifespan, wisdom, and good fortune.
We can also use this practice to help remove obstacles endangering the lives of others, especially our close friends and family.
The sessions are unguided.
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held at Taiping branch. Car sharing from Vajrapani Centre Penang to Taiping will be arranged. Please contact us by WhatsApp message to 016-666 6428.
Vajrasattva Purification Retreat, 2-6 March
We spend all our time and energy trying to avoid problems by making changes to our external world. However, our unhappiness and difficulties are not caused by the external world. Our difficulties are the result of negative karma we have created in the past through our own harmful actions.
By relying upon Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification, we can free ourselves from our negative karma, the cause of our suffering. As a result of our practice, our mind will become pure, obstacles to our spiritual development will be removed and our external conditions will improve.
An introduction to the retreat will be given at 9am on Sunday 2 March.
All other sessions consist of prayers, silent meditation, and recitation of Vajrasattva’s mantra. Sessions are unguided.
Fees: Teaching RM10; retreat sessions RM6
Half-day Course | Sun 23 Mar
We want to help in a time of crisis, but we can’t see how we can make a meaningful difference. Buddha’s profound teachings offer us a way to feel truly empowered in every circumstance we face.
It starts with radically rethinking about our potential and the way we view ourself. Come along to this half-day course and begin to make a difference!
Sun 23rd Mar | 10am – 12.30pm
Fee: RM25
Meditation classes
Every year the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) organises three International Festivals of modern Kadampa Buddhism taught by senior Teachers.
Learn more
Empowerment and Commentary to the Practice of Buddha Maitreya
Buddha Maitreya is the manifestation of all the Buddhas’ realization of loving kindness. This festival is a unique opportunity to concentrate on understanding and practising the precious instructions given by Venerable Geshe-la on how to develop the three types of love.
This festival will be held in UK at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre from 23rd to 28th May.
Buddha Green Tara Empowerment with Teachings on Advice from Atisha’s Heart
Over two weeks, the Festival will emphasize teachings and meditations on Advice from Atisha’s Heart from our two most senior teachers. For the first time all of Venerable Geshe-la’s oral transmissions on the verses are brought together, including his special advice on how to engage in retreat on this text. Through Venerable Geshe-la’s encouragement and blessings they will transmit a complete commentary to all the verses.
This festival will be held in UK at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre. More information
Dorje Shugden Empowerment
and Developing Faith in Dorje Shugden
There is nothing more precious than the words of our Spiritual Guide. This festival begins with the empowerment of Dorje Shugden as a powerful protection and blessing, so that we can understand the deep meanings of all the teachings of Sutra and Tantra that we have received from our Founder.
This festival will be held in the US at the International Kadampa Retreat Centre Grand Canyon. More information
New Kadampa Tradition
About the New Kadampa Tradition
The New Kadampa Tradition-International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) follows the pure tradition of Mahayana Buddhism handed down in an unbroken lineage from Buddha Shakyamuni through the ancient Kadampa teachers Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa and introduced into the modern world by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. The NKT-IKBU is a legally and entirely independent Buddhist tradition, and it has no political affiliations.
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso - Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. The Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Buddhist Union.
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