December 20 @ 9:00 am - December 22 @ 5:00 pm
Joining Together in
Virtual Community
Virtual Community
Discovering the Buddha Within
Join the PTC Million Mani Club!
The Palpung Thubten Choling Million Mani Club was founded more than a decade ago with an online form for reporting recitations of the mantra of compassion, om mani peme hung, and keeping track automatically of the cumulative lifetime total for each user. To date, almost 400 people from all over the world have used the mani tracker, and 25 have become official members of the Million Mani Club by reaching a million or more recitations, including several who have recited multiple millions. We invite you to join us. You can get started by visiting our Million Mani Club page.
Thanks and congratulations to all participants in PTC’s Losar 2023 group accumulation of the mantra of compassion, om mani peme hung.
With more than 40 participants and vastly multiplied merit, our final total is 1,446,394!
PTC Lhabab Duchen Million Mani Challenge 2024: Results are in!
Almost 40 people participated in PTC’s 2024 Lhabab Duchen Million Mani Challenge, which ended on December 1. Each person recited the mantra of compassion, om mani peme hung, wherever they were, and reported them toward the group total using PTC’s online mani counter. Total manis recited during the month of November: 2,187,427! Each participant earned the vastly multiplied merit of the holy day of Lhabab Duchen, further multiplied by the number of participants. Emaho! For more information on mani challenges and using our counter to track your own lifetime cumulative mani total, please visit our Million Mani Club page. And please join us for our next mani challenge during Losar, the Tibetan New Year, beginning February 28, 2025.
Online Prayers and Resources
Evening Classes
Palpung Thubten Choling is offering chanting practices, classes and Dharma talks by our Lamas free of charge to support your practice.
These classes are being offered in person and on Zoom. If you would like to participate remotely, please use our online event registration form.
Monday evenings (7:30-8:30pm)
Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
Teachings on foundational Buddhist thought along with basic meditation instructions taught by resident teachers who have graduated from the PTC three-year retreat program. Appropriate for beginners and for anyone who would like to refresh their understanding of meditation or just meditate with a group. No prerequisites or attendance requirement, join us any Monday.
Tuesday evenings (7:30-8:30pm)
Study Group on the Ornament of Precious Liberation
Led by Lamas Depa and Lhadrun, we will be exploring in depth the Ornament of Precious Liberation, by the great master of the Kagyu lineage, Lord Gampopa. This text is considered a spiritual classic of Tibetan Buddhism. In order to develop our understanding of this profound work, we will also be referring to Path to Buddhahood, a very accessible and illuminating commentary by Ringu Tulku.
Thursday evenings (7:30-8:30pm)
Alternating weeks:
Medicine Buddha Practice and The Verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness
On the first and third Thursday of each month, please join us as we chant this essential practice which can increase our healing powers so that we can help those in our lives who are struggling with illness and obstacles and also remove our own physical and mental suffering. An abbreviated version of the Chenrezig practice is inserted in the prayer which follows, known as the Verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness.
The liturgies are being screen shared and are translated as well as written phonetically. You can chant along, or silently read the translation.
Chenrezig Practice
On the second, fourth and fifth Thursday of each month, please join us as we chant and meditate in order to realize our inborn great compassion. Guru Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche has said that, “Chenrezig is the embodiment of compassion, Bodhicitta. We reach Buddhahood intentionally, and the intention is Bodhicitta. That is what Chenrezig represents. The Chenrezig Sadhana is the most sacred and profound sadhana. By practicing it with awareness, you can attain Chenrezig’s enlightened body, speech, and mind.”
The liturgy is being screen shared. It is translated as well as written phonetically. You can chant along, or silently read the translation.
Butterlamps for Healing and Peace
Symbolizing the light of wisdom, butterlamps are traditionally offered to dispel obstacles and alleviate all types of suffering. Please join us in sponsoring butterlamps every week for the relief of all causes of suffering in the world today. Sponsors are invited to submit personal prayer requests.
Offering Continuous Light for a Year
with E-lamps
with E-lamps
E-lamps are beautiful rechargeable lamps which are always ablaze in our Maitreya shrine room. You can sponsor an e-lamp for anyone in need of continuous blessing for a year.
Ongoing Prayers for Healing
Every morning at Palpung Thubten Choling, as well as alternating Thursday evenings, we chant the practice of Medicine Buddha with the aspiration to alleviate the illness and pain of all beings. Every week following the Tong Cho offering and the lighting of 1,000 butterlamps, our Lamas, monastics, and residents gather in the Maitreya Shrine Hall to chant the Monlam Choga, an extensive compilation of aspiration prayers for the benefit of all beings, composed by Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche.
