Sunday Meditation Class
2025-11-09 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-11-16 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-11-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-11-30 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-12-07 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-12-14 10:00 - 11:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, 289 Sunrise Valley Road, Upper Moutere, 7173, New Zealand
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.
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AGM Meeting
2025-11-09 14:00 - 15:30
You’re warmly invited to attend the Chandrakirti Trust AGM — a wonderful opportunity to meet the Board of Trustees and hear about plans and events for the year ahead.

🕑 Sunday 9 November – 2pm📍 Chandrakirti Meditation Centre

All are welcome to join, and the meeting will be followed by afternoon tea, providing a chance to connect with fellow community members.

Monday Study Class
2025-11-10 19:00 - 20:30
Monday study class with Geshe Tharchin
Monday evenings from 6:00-7:30pm (will change to 7.00-8.30pm when daylight savings starts on 29 September)
Topic: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Introduction to Tantra
The text required for Monday’s Study Class – Opening the Eye of New Awareness (HHDL), translated and introduced by Donald S Lopez Jr.
Course fee is $225 for 15 weeks.
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
To register please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Guru Puja with Tsog
2025-11-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-30 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-14 18:30 - 20:30
Guru puja (Lama Chöpa) is a practice of making offerings and requests to all the Buddhas and holy beings, but especially the root guru, who, according to the teachings, is the root of the path to liberation. Traditionally we do offerings to the Sangha. If you wish to dedicate the puja to the spiritual teachers or loved ones in need of support and prayers, please do let us know. We practice Guru Puja every month and is open to public.
Please bring a food offering – preferably something baked / fruit / something avoiding plastic. Thank you!

Wednesday Class
2025-11-12 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-26 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-03 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-10 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 $210 for the 14 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.

S.I Tsog
2025-11-14 08:00 - 11:00

Annual Fundraising Dinner
2025-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
Chandrakirti Centre Annual Fundraising Dinner

Monday Study Class
2025-11-17 19:00 - 20:30
Monday study class with Geshe Tharchin from 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Introduction to Tantra
The text required for Monday’s Study Class – Opening the Eye of New Awareness (HHDL), translated and introduced by Donald S Lopez Jr.
Course fee is $225 for 15 weeks.
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
To register please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Monday Study Class
2025-11-24 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-01 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-12-08 19:00 - 20:30
Monday study class with Geshe Tharchin
Monday evenings from 7.00-8.30pm
Topic: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Introduction to Tantra
The text required for Monday’s Study Class – Opening the Eye of New Awareness (HHDL), translated and introduced by Donald S Lopez Jr.
Course fee is $225 for 15 weeks.
Class offered in person and online via Zoom.
To register please email meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Prayers at Wish-Fulfilling Land
2025-11-25 10:00 - 12:00
Join us for the monthly prayers at the Wish-fulfilling Land
Meet us at Chandrakirti Meditation Centre for a ride to WFL at 9:30am,
or join us at around 10 am at the Land by the Earth Cabin.
Please wear warm clothes!
Wish Fulfilling Land is a place to retreat, develop calm abiding and realizations on the path to enlightenment.

Tara Puja
2025-11-28 10:00 - 11:30
Female manifestation of Buddha’s Omniscient mind, Tara. During a Tara Puja we recite 21 Tara’s prayer.
The actions of all the buddhas have manifested in the aspect of Tara, to grant the wishes of us beings. Hence it is very important for us to pray to her. Because of her great compassion and love for all sentient beings, if we pray to her with great sincerity and faith, taking refuge in and relying on her completely, she can definitely help eliminate hindrances and bring success in spreading the pure teachings of the Buddha.
Join us if you are a practitioner or not. All welcome!
10am at the Gompa with our teacher Geshe-la.

Medicine Buddha Puja
2025-12-04 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-12-11 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.

Succession Guru Yoga: 2-Day Teaching
2025-12-05 09:30 - 2025-12-06 17:00
Six Session Guru Yoga, 2-Day Teaching
Friday Dec 5th and Saturday Dec 6th.

A 2-Day teaching with Geshe Jampa Tharchin
At Chandrakirti Meditation Centre, Sunrise Valley Rd, Upper Moutere,

Also available via Zoom (online).

Join us for two days of study and practice on the Six Session Guru Yoga, a profound daily spiritual practice and meditation essential for maintaining tantric commitments
and deepening the connection with one’s spiritual teacher.

Geshe Tharchin will lead us through the meaning, lineage and method of practise of the 6 sessions combining teaching, guided recitation and meditation.
This teaching is specifically for students who have received a highest yoga tantra initiation and is especially recommended for those new to the practice.

Begins Friday 5th at 9.30am finishing Saturday 6th at 5pm.
Cost is $160 for 2 days, including daily wholesome vegetarian lunches.
ZOOM participants $120 for the 2 days.

Accommodation is available on site for extra cost.

Bookings: Please email meditate@chandrakirti.co,nz to register your interest or to receive the Zoom link.

Please also indicate which HYT you have received, from whom and when, in your email.

Summer Retreat - Nagarjuna's Precious Garland
2026-01-09 09:30 - 2026-01-19 12:00
Summer Retreat – Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland
10 Day Retreat: January 9th – 19th, 2026
Geshe Tharchin will teach on Nagajunas famous text Precious Garland
A timeless guide to living with wisdom, compassion and clarity
This classic text offers practical advice for a meaningful life, covering ethics, mindfulness, relationships, and the path to genuine inner peace.
This teaching will illuminate Nagarjunas profound insights in a way that speaks directly to daily life.

This retreat begins with a Guru Puja Tsog at 6:00pm on Friday 9 January and concludes Monday 19 January at 12 noon. Over ten days, Geshe-la will guide us through Nagarjuna’s timeless text, Precious Garland, offering practical insights on ethics, mindfulness, relationships, and cultivating genuine inner peace.
We are very pleased to welcome Mr Losang Dawa as guest interpreter for this special retreat.
Cost: $800 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.
All are warmly welcome — no previous experience needed.

Any questions, please email – meditate@chandrakirti.co.nz

Guru Puja Tsog
2026-01-09 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.

Tara Puja
2026-01-26 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.
