Sunday Meditation Class
2026-03-22 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-03-29 10:00 - 11:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, 289 Sunrise Valley Road, Upper Moutere, 7173, New Zealand
Sunday Meditation Class
In the Nalanda Hall, 10.00-11.30am

With great kindness Geshe Jampa Tharchin will give a commentary on the text Seven Point Mind Training by the famous Kadampa scholar, Geshe Chekawa. These Sunday classes will show us how to live a happy and 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.
Geshela emphasizes the Five Powers to be cultivated

The Power of Intention
The Power of the White Seed
The Power of Familiarity
The Power of Repudiation
The Power of Prayer/Dedication

Family friendly. Followed by a vegetarian lunch!
Everyone warmly welcome. Just drop in!
By donation.
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Tuesday Study Class
2026-03-24 19:00 - 20:30
Tuesday Study Class with Geshe Jampa Tharchin
Tuesday evenings from 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: Tantric Grounds and Paths

Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra offers a concise overview of the structure of the tantric path, widely acclaimed in Tibet as the swiftest and most sublime means to realize Buddhahood. Presenting the paths of all four classes of tantra, while not being a guide to highest yoga tantra practice itself, this subject provides a clear overview of its complex path structure.
Course fee is $225 for 15 weeks.
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
To register please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Wednesday Study Class
2026-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday Study Class
In the Nalanda Hall, 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: Lama Tsongkhapa’s famous text 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, 2021 edition.
As a foundation and context for practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. The aim of this FPMT Basic Program course is for students to acquire a thorough understanding and structured overview of Lama Tsongkhapa’s presentation, and to develop experience of applying these teachings in daily practice, meditation and retreat. Upon completion, students should be able to conduct their own lamrim retreats and to use the lamrim as a basis and context for their meditation, further study, and daily life experience.
Geshela will focus on the topic of karma

Class offered in person and online via Zoom.

For direct credit, please email us for bank info.
Email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz if you have further questions and registration.

Tara Puja
2026-03-26 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-04-24 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.

Medicine Buddha Puja
2026-04-01 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-05-01 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.

Finding Inner Calm: A Shamatha Meditation Retreat
2026-04-03 09:30 - 2026-04-06 12:00
Easter Retreat
4 days
Friday 3rd – Monday 6th April 2026
Join us for a nourishing 4-day Calm Abiding Shamatha Retreat, designed to help settle the mind, develop inner stability, and deepen your meditation practice. Through guided sessions, quiet reflection, and supportive teachings, you’ll learn practical methods for working with distraction, restlessness, and dullness, and discover how calm abiding becomes the foundation for clarity, insight, and a more peaceful daily life. This retreat offers a gentle, structured environment for both beginners and experienced meditators to reconnect with stillness, presence, and the natural ease of the mind.
Investment $80 per day includes delicious lunch and refreshments x 4 = $320 for full retreat
Accommodation available for extra cost.
No experienced necessary – everyone warmly welcome to join this profound meditation retreat.

For registration, please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Guru Puja Tsog
2026-04-12 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-04-26 18:30 - 19:30
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.

Wishfulfilling Land Prayers
2026-04-16 10:00 - 12:00
Thursday April 16th at 10am

We meet at WishFulfilling Land at 262 Central Rd South to read sutras from the Buddha to benefit all sentient beings.

Followed by a picnic lunch on the land. All most welcome to join this fun event.

Give us a call on 02 5432021 or meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Wishfulfilling Land Prayers
2026-05-14 10:00 - 12:00
Thursday May 14th at 10am

We meet at WishFulfilling Land at 262 Central Rd South to read sutras from the Buddha to benefit all sentient beings.

Followed by a picnic lunch on the land. All most welcome to join this fun event.

Give us a call on 02 5432021 or meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Wishfulfilling Land Prayers
2026-06-18 10:00 - 12:00
Thursday June 18th at 10am

We meet at WishFulfilling Land at 262 Central Rd South to read sutras from the Buddha to benefit all sentient beings.

Followed by a picnic lunch on the land. All most welcome to join this fun event.

Give us a call on 02 5432021 or meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Chittamani Tara Retreat 2026
2026-11-24 10:00 - 2026-12-14 16:00
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.

📅 Dates: Tuesday 24th November – Monday 14th December 2026
🧘‍♂️ Teaching & Explanation: Geshe Jampa Tharchin will offer 2 days of guidance on the Chittamani Tara practice before the retreat begins.
🔥 Conclusion: The retreat will conclude with the Fire Puja, followed by the Self Initiation.
This 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.
We have limited accommodation on site, please be prompt with your registration
📧 To register please fill in this Form
or email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz for more information
