Joining Together in
Virtual Community
Virtual Community
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!
Join us for PTC’s 2025 Saga Dawa Million Mani Challenge!
The PTC 2025 Saga Dawa Million Mani Challenge begins Tuesday, May 27, and continues through the next new moon on June 25. Commemorating Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana, the month of Saga Dawa is a time when the merit of all our positive actions and dharma practice is said to be vastly multiplied. Group practice further magnifies the merit exponentially, so this is a very powerful time for us to join together and recite the mantra of compassion, om mani peme hung, with the heartfelt aspiration to free all beings from suffering and bring healing and peace to the world. Join us from anywhere in the world, recite on your own schedule, and report your totals on our online mani tracker page.
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.