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SUMMARY:Animal Blessing Morning
DESCRIPTION:Join us here at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre for this animal blessing event!\n Saturday November 21st 9.30 am to 12pm \n \n Bring your pet or animal for a Buddhist Blessing with mantras and holy objects with Geshe Jampa Tharchin.\n This practice benefits the animals life and rebirth creating enormous merit that is rare for an animal to experience.\n All animals welcome big or small\, and must be on a leash or in a cage. \nMorning tea provided\n\n Free event!
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/animal-blessing-morning/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20261122T100000
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SUMMARY:Final Sunday Meditation Class
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Chandrakirti for the final Sunday Meditation Class of 2026!\nWe will be holding our summer retreats after Nov 22nd. Sunday classes will start again in February 2027. \n\n Every Sunday (August 16th – November 22nd) 10am – 11.30am\, followed by a free community lunch Nalanda Hall (Gompa) at Chandrakirti Centre Dana/Koha welcome\n  Facebook Event \nSunday classes are open to all\, no prior experience with Buddhism required! \nChildren aged 6 and over are welcome to attend class or supervised childcare is available at the Main House while parents are in class. Children can be dropped off there\, where a member of the Chandrakirti community will be present to care for them. \n⋆ You don’t need to bring anything with you\, although you’re welcome to bring a pen and notebook if you’d like to take notes. \n⋆ We recommend arriving 10 minutes early to settle in before the class begins. \n⋆ If you’re unable to attend in person\, Sunday classes are also livestreamed on YouTube\, so you can join from home \n If you would like to make a donation to support this class\, you are welcome to contribute to the donation box in the Gompa or make a donation through our Givealittle page \nWith great kindness Geshe Jampa Tharchin will teach on the Eight Verses of Mind Training during Sunday Meditation classes. \nEight Verses of Mind Training\nBy Geshe Langri Tangpa \n\nDetermined to obtain the greatest possible benefit\nFrom all sentient beings\,\nWho are more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel\,\nI hold them most dear at all times.2. Wherever I am and whoever I am with\,\nI always consider myself the lowest of all\nAnd from the depths of my heart\nHold others dear and supreme. \n3. In all actions\, I examine my mental continuum\nAnd the minute a delusion arises\,\nSince it endangers myself and others\,\nI forcefully confront and avert it. \n4. Whenever I see sentient beings who are wicked in nature\nAnd overwhelmed by negative actions and heavy suffering\,\nI hold such rare ones dear\,\nAs if I had found a precious treasure. \n5. When\, out of envy\, others mistreat me\nWith abuse\, insults\, or the like\,\nI accept defeat\nAnd offer the victory to them. \n6. When someone whom I have benefited\nAnd in whom I have great hopes\nGives me terrible harm\,\nI regard them as my virtuous friend. \n7. In short\, both directly and indirectly\,\nI offer every happiness and benefit to all my mothers.\nI secretly take upon myself\nAll their harms and sufferings. \n8. Also\, I do not defile all these practices\nWith the stains of the superstitions of the eight worldly concerns\nAnd by knowing all phenomena to be illusory\,\nWithout trusting in them\, I am freed from bondage.\n\nThis rendition of Kadampa Geshe Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses of Thought Transformation was translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta\, Portland: FPMT Inc.\, \nEmail meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz with any queries
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/sunday-meditation-class-2-2026-11-22/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Teaching,Weekly Events
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SUMMARY:Chittamani Tara Retreat 2026
DESCRIPTION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre is delighted to host the first three week Chittamani Tara Retreat. This is in response to H.E Jhado Rinpoche so kindly offering us the full Chittamani Tara empowerment and extended commentary in October 2025. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅 Dates: Tuesday 24th November – Monday 14th December 2026 \n🧘‍♂️ Teaching & Explanation: Geshe Jampa Tharchin will offer 2 days of guidance on the Chittamani Tara practice before the retreat begins. \n🔥 Conclusion: The retreat will conclude with the Fire Puja\, followed by the Self Initiation. \nThis retreat will now be held every year at the same time for the next 10 years\, enabling each participant to individually accumulate one million mantras. \nWe have limited accommodation on site\, please be prompt with your registration \nCosts \nRetreat investment is $1980 for 21 days\, including all meals and retreat materials. Accommodation is an extra cost. \nAccommodation Costs (per night) \n\nRetreat Hut $50 \nCamping/Caravan $25 \nShared space in Community Hall $35 \n\n📧 To register please email Phillipa – director@chandrakirti.co.nz \n 
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/chittamani-tara-retreat-2026/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Retreats
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SUMMARY:Seven Point Mind Training - with Venerable Tenzin Tsapel
DESCRIPTION:Summer Program 2027 at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\n  \nDeepening our Spiritual Experience – A teaching with Venerable Tenzin Tsapel\nA 7-day retreat – January 6th to 13th\, 2027 \n \nChandrakirti Centre is very pleased to welcome Ven Tsapel back for this years summer program retreat\, from January 6- 13th. \nTeachings and meditation for transforming ordinary difficulties and self centeredness into the path of awakening through bodhichitta\, compassion and wisdom – practical methods for training our mind to become more happy and content. \nBy stabilising our foundational spiritual practices and applying them consistently\, we transformconfusion into wisdom\, deepen our compassion for all beings\, and bring the awakening mind of bodhicitta within reach .An exploration into Lama Tsong Khapas pith instructions for aspiring seekers of truth. \nThe text\, by Lama Tsong Khapa\, is a response to letter from a heart disciple Namkha Pel\, who is missing his teacher and asks for advice. Lama Tsong Khapa being well pleased\, answers with pith instructions to Namkha Pel and others\, hence this text is for us too as we aspire to the Mahayana. The reality we need to recognise is that we are confused and lack control. We need to deepen our experience of the root foundational practices until they are stable. Only by focusing on the dharma we know and training correctly can we gain experience in compassion and open to reality of transmigratory beings. With renewed focus and strength\, virtues increase and bodhicitta will seem within reach. \nVenerable Tenzin Tsapel is director of the Machig Labdron Nunnery Bendigo\, Australia. Venerable Tsapel met our founding lamas Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche during their 1979 Australian tour. She was ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India in ’85. Ven Tsapel studied at the Chenrezig Institute where she also taught and tutored for over 16 years. Ven. Tsapel was key in establishing the Chenrezig Nuns Community\, and Chenrezig Institute’s Basic Program. \nFrom 2006 – 2009 Venerable Tsapel served three years as resident teacher at Chandrakirti meditation Centre. Following that\, after a two year solitary retreat she served as resident teacher for the FPMT Centre in Darkhan\, Mongolia. For most of the last decade\, Venerable Tsapel has been working on her second nunnery\, Machig Labdron Nunnery\, that is now complete and home to six nuns and forms the fourth entity on the Great Stupa land\, Bendigo Australia\, joining The Great Stupa\, Atisha Centre and TSL Monastery. \nEveryone warmly welcome\, a great opportunity to experience essential Buddhist teachings and learncore practises. \nThe investment for this retreat is $580 and includes all meals and retreat materials\n\nAccommodation is available for an additional cost \n\nTo sign up for this retreat\, email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/seven-point-mind-training-with-venerable-tenzin-tsapel/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Retreats
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SUMMARY:Mahamudra Retreat - The Great Seal
DESCRIPTION:A 10-day teaching and meditation retreat with resident teacher LharampaGeshe Jampa Tharchin \n24th January – 4th February 2027\nChandrakirti Meditation Centre \nMeditating on the conventional and ultimate natures of our own mind\, exploring the relationship between appearances and reality. \n \nIn The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra\, Mahamudra is presented as a profound method for recognising the ultimate nature of the mind through meditation\, uniting the clarity and awareness of the mind with an understanding of emptiness. Through a combination of analytical meditation and stabilising meditation\, practitioners gradually develop direct experience of the mind’s nature\, leading towards liberation and enlightenment. We will be following this text by His Holiness the Dalai Lama “The Gelug/Kagyu tradition of Mahamudra” \nMr. Losang Dawa from Dunedin is the in-person interpreter for this retreat. \nThe investment is $850 includes all meals and retreat materials\nAccommodation is available for extra cost \nPlease email us for your booking meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz\n035432021
URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/mahamudra-retreat-the-great-seal/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Retreats
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20270214T100000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Meditation Classes Resume
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URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/sunday-meditation-classes-resume/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Weekly Events
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Study Classes Resume
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URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/tuesday-study-classes-resume/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Weekly Events
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Study Classes Resume
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URL:https://www.chandrakirti.co.nz/event/wednesday-study-classes-resume/
LOCATION:Chandrakirti Meditation Centre\, 289 Sunrise Valley Road\, Upper Moutere\, 7173\, New Zealand
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