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
Avalokiteshvara Empowerment & Retreat 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 message 016-666 6428
Empowerment Day Fee: RM80
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.
THE POWER OF COMPASSION RETREAT
Sunday 5th – Friday 10th January 2025
With Gen Kelsang Lamchung
Compassion has immense power to heal our mind and to lead us to viewing our whole life in a completely different way, making our life meaningful and our relationships healthier and more positive.
We will use the Avalokiteshvara prayer booklet for this retreat. Sessions include chanted prayers and silent time for meditation. Sessions 1 & 2 each day will be guided.
Daily session times
- 9.00am – 10.15am
- 10.45am – 11.45am
- 12.00pm – 1.00pm
- 2.15pm – 3.15pm : This session on Sun 5th, Mon 6th and Thu 9th Jan only
Fees Whole retreat: RM150. Daily rate: RM25
Venue Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre 28 Jalan Perlis, 10400 Georgetown Penang
Tara Prayers for the New Year
Immerse yourself in Tara’s inspiring blessings and start the New Year feeling hopeful and transformed.
During this event we will be praying to Buddha Tara, a female enlightened being, for peace in our troubled world. These prayers consist of praises and requests to Tara, and are very powerful because they are Sutra, the actual words of Buddha.
Tara is known as the Great Compassionate Mother and her name means ‘Rescuer’. Her energy is loving and wise. She is swift with her transformative blessings, and rescues living beings from fears and inner and outer dangers.
Free of charge
Heruka Retreat
Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th January 2025
This retreat is for those who have received Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini in the New Kadampa Tradition.
We will focus on Heruka self-generation practice using the sadhana The Yoga of Buddha Heruka. The first session each day will be guided.
Daily session times
- 9.00am – 10.15am
- 10.45am – 11.45am
- 12.00pm – 1.00pm
You are welcome to join individual sessions on any of the days.
Facility fee: RM8 per session (guided) RM6 per session (unguided)
Meditation classes
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 some Fridays – please check our posts/monthly calendar to confirm dates.
Prayers for World Peace is a free meditation class that helps us develop positive compassionate minds through which we can improve our relationships with others.
These prayers were composed by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, who also designed the format of the class, so that people have a special method to create the causes for world peace.
In these turbulent times, it is crucial that we develop peaceful minds to enable the emergence of a more harmonious world.
Everyone welcome.
Through practising transference of consciousness, known as ‘powa’ with faith, compassion and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those recently deceased to a higher rebirth or to the Pure Land of a Buddha.
The Powa Ceremony can be done either by a group of practitioners or individually on behalf of one or more deceased persons, or countless deceased beings. Join us for this beautiful practice.
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.
Over two weeks, the Festival will emphasise 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. More …
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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Part 2 of our festive season celebrations takes us to Kadampa centers in Mexico, the UK, the US, and France. Communities gathered to express gratitude for the past year and welcome the new one with a variety of different events. In Mexico, there were prayers and meals, while the UK enjoyed quiz games and festive fun. In the US, one center celebrated with caroling and a meal, and in France, meditation and a shared meal created a joyful atmosphere, highlighting the unity and joy of the Kadampa family.
- A Weekend of Empowerment and Blessings
Empowerments brought people together, showing how spiritual practice fosters meaningful connections and reminds us that we share a common goal, no matter where we are.
- Mountain Meditation Retreats in Mexico and Switzerland
In early December, two meditation retreats took place in the mountains of Mexico and Switzerland. KMC Monterrey’s community contemplated teachings on emptiness during their annual Heart of Wisdom retreat, while Sangha from Italy and Switzerland drew closer to the meaning of Je Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path.
- Celebrating the festive season at Kadampa centers
At this time of year, many Kadampa centers around the world come together to celebrate the end of year and enjoy time with their communities. Here is a glimpse of the festive season at Manjushri KMC, KMC Chile, KMC Munich in Germany and Nagarjuna KMC in the UK.
- Special Events in the US, Mexico and France
Kadampa centers have hosted inspiring events worldwide, including a transformative retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a “Closing Cycles” event in Mexico and in Paris, Gen Dechen from KMC Lille led a joyful meditation day. These events all reflect the global Kadampa community’s dedication to spiritual growth and connection.
