Chandrakirti Meditation Centre

Steps to an Awakened Mind : A 7 - Day Lam Rim Journey
2026-01-30 09:30 - 2026-02-06 12:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, 289 Sunrise Valley Road, Upper Moutere, 7173, New Zealand
Lam Rim Retreat
7-Day Retreat: Jan 30th – Feb 6th at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre.
Steps to an awakened mind : A 7- Day Lam Rim journey
With Geshe Jampa Tharchin

This teaching takes big Buddhist ideas and presents them in a clear structured way that anyone can follow, no background needed.
Join Geshe Jampa Tharchin for a week-long Lam Rim retreat, exploring the graduated stages of the path in a clear, practical, and inspiring way. Learn how to understand yourself and others more deeply, nurture compassion, and build inner strength and resilience.
Cost: $560 for the full retreat including delicious vegetarian lunches, refreshments, and all retreat materials. Accommodation available for an additional cost.
Registration for online participation via zoom available
Schedule and details coming soon.
Any enquiries or to register below or please email us – meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Medicine Buddha Puja
2026-02-01 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-03 10:00 - 11:30
Medicine Buddha Puja

Every Month – 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Dedicated to healing and removing obstacles – for yourself and others.

Everyone is welcome!

Most commonly this puja is performed to assist in the recovery of illness, or an operation. It is also done to achieve higher rebirth for the deceased.
The Medicine Buddha Puja can be performed extensively, with the requests to Medicine Buddhas done seven times to each of the Buddhas.
Additional prayers are said for the dedication of the merit.
By creating extensive merit through the performance of the puja, Medicine Buddha puja is also very helpful to bring success in all activities, for example work related.

If you have any questions about this puja or would like to dedicate this puja to a person in need, please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Sponsorship for this puja is most welcome – see here.

Guru Puja Tsog
2026-02-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-02-26 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-28 19:00 - 20:30
Containing the whole path to enlightenment, this Guru Puja Tsog is the foundation of all spiritual progress, and is a profound and joyous event! Nurture the powerful potential for spiritual growth with a ceremony rich in symbolism. Reliance on our spiritual teacher is the foundation of all spiritual progress, and this ceremony helps us create mountains of merit and purify broken samaya.
Tsok is more than just its literal meaning of “gathering.” It’s a sacred space created in the mind where practitioners unite with profound spiritual energies, inviting the dakas and dakinis. When we create this special space through offerings and coming together—whether physically or virtually—it opens the door for spiritual insights to naturally arise.
The physical offerings we make are symbols that guide our minds toward deeper, internal offerings. In Vajrayana Buddhism, tsok is a specific feast offering practice done on the 10th (day of the herukas) and 25th (day of the dakinis) of each lunar month. Practitioners perform these offerings in connection with their personal sadhana.
To complete the path to enlightenment we need to maintain a strong and pure relationship with the guru. We do this by relating to the different aspects of the guru, and to ultimately bring forth the inner guru, the purity of our own mind.
Please bring a food offering – preferably something baked / fruit / something avoiding plastic. Thank you!

All welcome to join us

If you have any questions about this puja or would like to dedicate this puja to a person in need, please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Sponsorship for this puja is most welcome – see here.

Sunday Meditation Class
2026-02-15 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-02-22 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-01 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-08 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-15 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-22 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-29 10:00 - 11:30
Focusing on Seven point mind training Geshela teaching us how to live a happy successful life.
If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy, regardless of our external conditions. When it is unsettled, we will never find happiness, no matter how much we try to change our external conditions.
The method to make our mind pure and peaceful is to train in meditation. The Sunday meditation class covers methods to achieve this.
Family friendly. Followed by a vegetarian lunch!
Everyone warmly welcome. Just drop in!
By donation.
We are on Youtube Live
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Thukpa Party at Geshelas House
2026-02-15 18:00 - 19:30
Thukpa Party at Geshelas House
Feb 15th at 6pm.
Email here if you would like to join us – meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Tibetan New Year Losar
2026-02-18 08:00 - 12:00
Tibetan New Year – Losar Celebrations
Feb 18th:
– 8am: Breakfast at Geshelas House
– 10am Guru Puja Tsog
– 12pm: Lunch party
Any questions or to register please email – meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Monday Study Class
2026-02-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-02 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-16 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-30 19:00 - 20:30
Monday study class with Geshe Tharchin
Monday evenings from 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: Tantric Grounds and Paths
Course fee is $225 for 15 weeks.
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
To register please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Tara Puja
2026-02-24 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-26 10:00 - 11:30
Also called Four mandala Offering To Cittamani Tara, this puja is requesting Mother Tara to protect us from all negativities, bring success, especially for family, relationship, success of business, Career, health and protect from all kinds of fears.
Tara’s name means “star” or “she who ferries across,” and she appears in female form as a bodhisattva of compassion. Green Tara, in particular, represents compassion in action — always ready to step down from her lotus throne to help sentient beings.
Tara is swift to respond to prayers. Her practice brings immense merit, protects against suffering in future lives, and supports the path to enlightenment. Lama Zopa Rinpoche shares that many people experience tangible benefits from Tara practice — from healing illness and avoiding untimely death, to finding jobs, improving relationships, and even conceiving children.

Welcome to all levels of experience,
10:00am at the Nalanda Hall with our teacher, Geshe Jampa Tharchin and wider community.

If you have any questions about this puja or would like to dedicate this puja to a person in need, please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Sponsorship for this puja is most welcome – see here.

Wednesday Study Class
2026-02-25 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-04 19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday evenings 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: Lama Tsong Khapa’s famous “Middle Length Lam Rim”
Cost for the course is $225 for the 15 weeks. Cost of the hardcopy textbook is $100.
We will study The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Je Tsongkhapa, translated by Philip Quarcoo
For registered students, the e-book is available for US$9.95 from Wisdom Publications, discount code fpmt995
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
For direct credit, please email us for bank info.
Email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz to ask anything and register.

2-Day Retreat with Geshela
2026-03-06 09:30 - 2026-03-07 17:00
Join us for our 2-day retreat with Geshela.
Topic: TBA
Friday, March 6th – Saturday, March 7th (from 9.30am – 5.00pm, per day)
Cost: $80.00 per day, or $160.00 for the whole course (includes lunch & refreshments)
To register please email meditate@chadrakirti.co.nz

Wednesday Study Class
2026-03-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-18 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday evenings 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: Lama Tsong Khapa’s famous “Middle Length Lam Rim”
Cost for the course is $225 for the 15 weeks. Cost of the hardcopy textbook is $100.
We will study The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Je Tsongkhapa, translated by Philip Quarcoo
For registered students, the e-book is available for US$9.95 from Wisdom Publications, discount code fpmt995
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
For direct credit, please email us for bank info.
