Workshop - '35 Buddhas Purification Practice'

with Geshe Pema Tsering
June 6: Saturday 10 am to 3 pm

The '35 Buddhas Practice' is extremely powerful in purifying negative actions of body, speech and mind. In this one day workshop Geshe Pema Tsering will explain the practice, why it is a useful method and what can be achieved by doing this practice.  After the explanation participants will share lunch and then do the practice together.

The following was compiled from teachings given in 2003 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa in Italy.

{xtypo-quote}There are four remedy powers. The one that reduces and purifies negative karma is regret. The stronger the regret, the more the negative karma is purified. All phenomena affect each other; that is what dependent arising means - fire can burn, water can make things wet. It works similarly in our mind: our positive thoughts have one effect; negative thoughts have a different effect. So, there is happiness and there is suffering - this is a dependent arising. By reciting the names of the 35 Buddhas many times or just once, eons of negative karma is purified.

Lama Atisha explained why reciting the names of the 35 Buddhas has so much power. In the past, when the 35 Buddhas were bodhisattvas, they made many prayers to be able to benefit sentient beings, to easily purify our defilements and negative karma. When they achieved enlightenment, they achieved the Buddha's ten qualities or powers, one of which is the power of prayer. So, their names have the power of all those past prayers. That is why, when sentient beings recite their names, they have so much power to purify defilements and eons of negative karma. Every single quality the 35 Buddhas attained was in order to benefit sentient beings; there was no other reason or motivation for it, so we should use this advantage.{/xtypo-quote}

This workshop is suitable for all

Facility Fee:
$50 waged, $45 concession, $40 member
Please bring a plate of vegetarian food to share for lunch. Morning and afternoon tea are provided.