Welcome to Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre
We offer Study and Meditation programmes in Modern Buddhism. 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.
Click here to see what’s on at our branch in Taiping.
*for non-Muslim only
SPECIAL EVENTS
Like A Stainless Moon: How to Purify Ourself & Our World
27 – 30 March in Kuala Lumpur
At this year’s SEADC with Gen Kelsang Rabten, we will receive the empowerment of Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification. The blessing ceremony will be followed by teachings on how to purify our negative karma. Read more
RETREATS AT VAJRAPANI CENTRE PENANG
Nyungnay is a special fasting and purification practice performed in conjunction with prostrations and prayers to Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara. It is very powerful for purifying negativity and strong delusions and for growing our compassion.
It begins at 6.30am each day with the taking of Mahayana Precepts. You are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions provided that you have received the Mahayana Precepts on that day and that you observe either a partial or complete fast. Please click here to read full details.
Timetable
Mahayana Precepts – 6:30am
Session 1: 7.30am-8.45am
Session 2: 9.30am-10.45am
Session 3: 2pm-3.15pm
Facility fee: RM15 per day
Emptiness Retreat | May 1-5
Save the dates for this special event
Without others, there is no self. We will explore how, through our understanding and experience of emptiness, we can draw ever closer to all living beings.
Meditation classes
THURSDAY MEDITATION CLASS
11am – 12pm and repeated at 7.15pm – 8.15pm
When we are unhappy , depressed or angry, our friends always advise us: ‘you must learn to let go!’
What does it mean to let go? Precisely what do we need to let go? How can we let go? How by letting go, can we become happier?
Join us in April for this drop in talk with meditation class on The Art of Letting Go
Suggested donation: RM10 per class
放下的艺术
当我们感到痛苦、沮丧或愤怒时，朋友总会劝我们：『你必须学会放下！』
但，究竟什么是放下？我们该如何放下？这又如何让我们变得更快乐呢？
欢迎参加四月的禅修课程：放下的艺术。让我们一起探索内心的平静。
4月5日, 4月19日, 周日, 上午10:30-11:30, 在槟城金刚手噶当巴佛教中心，期待与你同行
Prayers
Every year the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) organises three International Festivals of modern Kadampa Buddhism taught by senior Teachers.
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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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