Ina Bieler has served us all tirelessly for 17 years by translating the sublime teachings of Garchen Rinpoche. This incredibly precious gift of Dharma has saved and changed our lives!
Together we can show our heartfelt appreciation by donating to the Garchen Institute so a home can be created for Ina and her family to live in at the Institute.
  We welcome all sizes of donations, which are tax deductible. Click to Donate 

SUNDAY PRACTICE
10am  &  3-4pm

Garchen Buddhist Institute’s Sunday practices, dharma talks, and classes have been our offering for many years — a way for the local community of practitioners and seekers to come together in love and learning, and a way for the world-wide sangha to feel connected to Garchen Rinpoche, the Lamas and the Institute via livestream.

This Sunday program is only available when there is not another event scheduled at the Institute.
Click our Event Calendar for more clarity on the schedule. 

We are happy to be able to contiune these offerings online, during this time of difficulty.

• White Tara Practice  with H.E.Garchen Rinpoche and Garchen Institute Lamas: 10am – 12pm
• Guided Meditation on 37 Bodhisattva Practices  3:00 -4pm with Venerable Khenpo Tenzin  

Each Sunday, along with the White Tara sadhana, we will do a different additional practice on a rotating basis. That rotation will look like this:

•  Jangchok for the Living
•  Jangchok for the Dead
•  Dharmapalas (Dharma protectors)
•  Jangchok for the Living and so forth.

Click the Texts for Sunday Practice, below, to view or download all the texts you will need.

To submit names for the Jangchok for the Living or the Dead, please email your list of names to: dedications@garchen.net

• Please group your names by Living or Dead, clearly stated.
• Please do not give your names as a numbered list.

Thank you so much. May all beings benefit, and be relieved of suffering and its causes!

PUJA SERVICES

The Garchen Buddhist Institute is pleased to introduce a new program of Sponsored Puja Services. Pujas are prayer rituals which involve visualization, mantra recitation and offerings to enlightened beings (Buddhas & Bodhisattvas). They are performed to receive the blessings of these enlightened beings, to accumulate merit, and to dispel obstacles and negative circumstances for oneself and others. Pujas can be sponsored to benefit oneself or another, for the living or for the dead.

Taking Vows Online

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche has said that it is extremely beneficial to take vows online, as it really shows you have a strong aspiration to receive them! He has also said that the reason you are truly able to receive vows online, is because of the ultimate nature of the Three Jewels — the Buddha, the Dharma (teachings), and the Sangha (spiritual community). This ultimate nature is actually love, which is all-pervasive like space. So if you have the heart and intention of love, you receive the vows whether or not you are physically present for the ceremony.