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.
EVENTS
Public Talk
DETOX OUR MIND
Sunday 17th November | 10:30AM - 12PM
We are always surrounded by negativity. How can we protect our mind and free ourselves from negativity?
In this special talk by our Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Lamchung, we shall explore various practical tools that we can use in our daily lives so that we can remain calm and peaceful in the midst of a negative world.
Venue: Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre, 28 Jalan Perlis, 10400 Penang
FREE OF CHARGE
Registration from 10am.
WhatsApp 016-666 6428
REFUGE RETREAT
The foundation of the Buddhist way of life is to go for refuge – to Buddha, to guide us along the spiritual path to enlightenment; to Dharma (Buddha’s teachings) to protect us from fear and suffering; and to Sangha (those practising Buddha’s teachings) to inspire us, show a good example and to help us along the path to inner peace.
By going for refuge to the 3 Jewels we can overcome our negative states of mind, and find permanent freedom from our problems. Seeking refuge in the Three Jewels is the essence of the Buddhist way of life.
In this retreat we will count recitations of the refuge prayer.
Each session includes chanted prayers and silent time for meditation practice. The retreat is unguided. You are welcome to join any of the sessions on any day of the retreat.
Facility fee: RM6 per session
Venue: Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre, 28 Jalan Perlis, 10400 Penang
Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Shakyamuni
and Teachings on Liberating Prayer
13 – 16 December 2024
Venue: Singapore, Village Hotel Katong
Join us for this year’s Asian Festival in Singapore with Gen Kelsang Rabten, the National Spiritual Director of Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. During the Festival, Gen Rabten will grant the blessing empowerment of Buddha Shakyamuni, and share the special transmission and blessing of the Liberating Prayer.
Blessing Empowerment at Vajrapani Centre
Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Avalokiteshvara & Teaching on Essential Insights into the Practice of Avalokiteshvara
With Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Lamchung
SATURDAY 4 JANUARY 2025 | 9.30AM – 3.30PM
Understanding that unbearable suffering pervades the entire world, and with deep compassion for all living beings, we will learn how to cause Buddha Avalokiteshvara to abide at our heart, and gain great confidence to quickly attain the union of Avalokiteshvara.
Venue: Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre, 28 Jalan Perlis, 10400 Georgetown, Penang
Contact: WhatsApp 016-666 6428
Event Fee: RM85
Registration: Participants are encouraged to pre-register to guarantee a place at the empowerment, and also to help us estimate numbers. Registration can also be done at the event.
Meditation classes
How can we make our life meaningful? By developing more inner good qualities, such as love, compassion and peace. We can achieve this through meditation.
This bilingual class consists of Dharma talk and guided meditation. Each class is self-contained. The teaching will be given in English and/or Chinese.
Just drop in, no need to book. Suitable for beginners and experienced meditators.
Suggested donation: RM10
Patience is an inner strength that enables us to accept and grow from whatever life throws at us. Without cultivating patience we remain vulnerable to anger and frustration, and it is difficult for us to maintain peaceful relationships with others. Anger destroys our happiness and the happiness of those around us, so if we want to be happier more of the time, we need to train in patience.
In this series of meditation classes with Gen Kelsang Lamchung, we will learn how to apply practical methods in our daily life to recognize and reduce our anger, and how to practice patience.
All meditations are guided.
Suggested donation: RM10
Dates:
Thursdays 7, 14, 21 & 28 November
Just drop in, no need to book. Suitable for beginners and experienced Dharma practitioners.
Suggested donation: RM10
FREE LUNCHTIME MEDITATION
Would you like to get started with meditation, or improve your practice? This class will help you learn meditation skills and gain an experience of inner peace.
Discover for yourself how simple meditation techniques can give us a taste of peace which we can carry into our daily life.
All meditations are guided. The class is suitable for beginners and improvers.
No booking required, just drop in.
This class is held most Fridays – please check our monthly calendar above to confirm dates.
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
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.
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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- Fall Festival 2024 ~ Day 8
Friday is an auspicious day. After a final meditation session practicing The Yoga of Buddha Heruka, there is a huge gathering in the Temple as it is opened to everyone to join in a truly global Prayers for World Peace. Many local people attend in addition to the international Festival participants, and it is simultaneously live-streamed around the world. How wonderful that thousands and thousands of people are praying together for peace in our world.
- Fall Festival 2024 ~ Day 7
Today we take some time to appreciate what a rich tradition we have, the incredible lineage we hold, and the unsurpassed presentation we enjoy where all Buddha's teachings fit with our modern life.
- Fall Festival 2024 ~ Day 6
After a wonderful, heartfelt and clear meditation with Gen Sangden we begin two days of teachings to receive the essential commentaries to the practices of Highest Yoga Tantra from Gen-la Dekyong.
- Fall Festival 2024 ~ Day 5
Today we meet Vajrayogini, with the final Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment. Three hours pass quickly as we are first introduced to Vajrayogini, taking time to appreciate the unique benefits of relying upon her and then we receive the blessings of the four empowerments in her sindhura mandala.
- Fall Festival 2024 ~ Day 4
On Monday we spend the day entering into Heruka's mandala, physically entering the beautiful temple, itself a representation of Heruka's palace, for the two sublime sessions of the Heruka empowerment. Then through the concentration of the empowering Spiritual Guide, the blessings of Venerable Geshe-la and our own pure imagination and intentions we are created as a newly arisen Heruka Body Mandala.
