Wishfulfilling Jewel
Mondays to Saturdays
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Sundays 10am-11:15am
Wishfulling Jewel practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism.
In the first part of this practice, we visualise Wisdom Buddha, Je Tsongkhapa, and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings or inspiration
The second part of this practice contains prayers to the Wisdom Buddha as the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden, to help us overcome obstacles to our meditation practice.
Everyone is welcome. Feel free to contact us if you need more information.
Offering To The Spiritual Guide
These prayers are done on the 10th and 25th of each month
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A powerful method to increase our compassion, wisdom and spiritual power. Everyone is welcome to join in.
The practice of relying upon a Spiritual Guide, is the root of the spiritual path and the foundation of all spiritual attainments. In Kadampa Buddhism, this Guru Yoga is practiced in association with Je Tsongkhapa, an emanation of the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri.
Melodious Drum
These prayers are done on the 29th of each month
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Dorje Shugden always helps, guides, and protects pure and faithful practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom, fulfilling their positive wishes and bestowing success on all their virtuous activities.
This extensive practice is usually performed once a month and is used for fulfill our heart commitment to practise Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra and to rely upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden, regarding him as inseparable from our Spiritual Guide and Buddha, and for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments we may have incurred.
Also included are Praise to Manjushri, the Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa, self-generation as Heruka, and the ritual for fulfilling and restoring our commitments with other Dharma Protectors.
Powa Ceremony
Normally hold these on the first Friday of each month at 7pm,
These prayers can also be done on request.
The practice of transference of consciousness, Powa Ceremony, is done on behalf of one or more deceased persons. Through doing Powa practice with faith, compassion, and concentration we can transfer the consciousness of those recently deceased to the Pure Land of a Buddha.
If living beings have the opportunity to take rebirth in a Buddha’s Pure Land they will attain permanent liberation from suffering and experience pure and everlasting happiness.
Our practice of this Powa Ceremony offers them this precious opportunity. By engaging in this practice we ourselves will create a great collection of virtue, which will also lead us into the pathway to the Pure Land.
Tara Prayers
These prayers are done on the 8th of each month
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Also Partake Online for Free
24-hour Tara Puja for the Welfare of the World on the 8th day of each month.
These prayers are streamed from the Kadampa Temple for World Peace at Manjushri KMC:
Join in online: Everyone is welcome.
Session times are: 02:00, 06:00, 10:00, 14:00, 18:00 and 22:00, UK time
Mahayana Precepts
A 24-Hour Purification Practice
This practice is done on the 15th of each month, 6.30-7:00am
This is a precious and powerful practice that purifies negative karma and produces positive karma, or good fortune for our future. It functions to improve our familiarity with the practice of moral discipline, deepen our compassion and make our human life meaningful.
This practise is traditionally done at daybreak on the 15th of every month. It takes the form of a short Sadhana of prayers and meditations, which, in general is guided.
Open to everyone, but if you are new please contact us at: epc@meditationinplymouth.org for information about the practice before joining.
In this practice we promise to abstain from non-virtuous actions for twenty-four hours. On this day we only eat one meal, if possible between 12-1pm.
Taking and keeping these precepts is a special purification practice. Buddha realised that all living beings’ suffering comes from their previous negative karma, and so he taught special practices to purify it.
Anyone is welcome to attend this early morning session and participate in this very meaningful day. It is recommended to treat this day like a special spiritual day of retreat where, even if we have many things to do, we mentally focus on making every activity meaningful and refrain from meaningless, ordinary activities that often clutter our day and mind.