Offering Our Faith Retreat

Celebrating Venerable Geshe-la's Birthday!

Sunday, June 4  |  9am-5:30pm

Reciting Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyato Rinpoche's Name Mantra

Every day we remember the extraordinary kindness of Venerable Geshe-la, our Root Guru and Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition, but on this auspicious day, with minds of rejoicing and gratitude, we will offer him our faith through using the special prayer Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso from his Faithful Disciples and collecting our Guru’s name mantra in a one-day retreat.

Nick will give a brief explanation of this practice as part of the retreat. There will be two sessions of retreat using the sadhana The Hundreds of Deities of the Joyful Land According to Highest Yoga Tantra and the special request prayer, Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso from his Faithful Disciples.

The retreat will conclude with a special Offering to the Spiritual Guide. Please feel free to bring a small food offering for this final session. Everyone is welcome!

Venerable Geshe-la teaching in Portugal in 2013
Venerable Geshe-la teaching in Brazil in 2010

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Delicious vegetarian lunch included!

Schedule


9:00-10:30am
- Session 1 + Brief Intro

11:00am-12:15pm - Session 2

1:45-3:00pm - Session 3

3:30-5:30pm - Session 4: Special Offering to the Spiritual Guide (with tsog offering)

We will be using the prayer booklets:  Hundreds of Deities of the Joyful Land According to Highest Yoga Tantra and the Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang from his Faithful Disciples. Please bring your copy to use if you have one. Thank you.

Nick Birdsall

Nick is an experienced practitioner of Kadampa Buddhism. Having met these teachings in 1993 in his native England, Nick has received many teachings directly from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. He is a regular volunteer at Heruka Center. Nick presents Buddha’s teachings and meditations with clarity and warmth and is appreciated for his sincerity and spiritual confidence.

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