WELCOME TO THE GARCHEN BUDDHIST INSTITUTE
A Sanctuary of Peace
The Garchen Buddhist Institute was founded by His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche in Chino Valley, Arizona. It is rooted in the Drikung Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Garchen Rinpoche created the Institute to establish the Buddha Dharma in the West, and to offer practitioners of all levels the opportunity to receive teachings, and participate in short or extended meditation practices.
TEMPORARILY CLOSED
The Institute remains temporarily closed to daily visitors due to ongoing construction. In the future we aim to re-open to visitors and will send an announcement when that time comes. However please check the event page for upcoming in person events and retreats, covid restrictions apply. We will continue to offer our livestream service of all our dharma events.
UPDATE
Unfortunately there was a covid outbreak at the Institute during the in person Vajrakilaya drubchen this November. Everyone that was affected is in the process of recovering. Consequently the Institute is not open to visitors at this time. Thank you for your understanding.
An Auspicious Message from H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
ONLINE OFFERINGS:
Events, Practices, Classes & Services
UPCOMING EVENTS
November 2022
Arya Tara
& Jangchok for the Living
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
and
The Garchen Institute Lamas
November 27 – No Livestream. Click here to watch previously recorded session
Sundays / 10am – 12pm MST (UTC-7)
Arya Tara Practice
for H.E. Garchen Rinpoche’s Long life
with
The Garchen Institute Lamas
Every Tuesday if there is no other event
Next Livestream Practice: November 29
Click here for the livestream link
Tuesdays / 8am – 9am MST (UTC-7)
Jewel Ornament of Liberation
with
Venerable Khenpo Tenzin
Next class: November 29
10am – 12pm MST (UTC-7)
Next Question and Answer session: TBA
1:30-2:45pm MST (UTC-7)
Click here to login to Zoom session
ID : 218 378 3697
Password: Ratna88
Meditation Series on Mindfulness
with Venerable Khenpo Tenzin
Next Class: December 4 — November 27 session is cancelled.
3pm -4pm MST (UTC-7)
Classes Every Sunday
when there is no other event
Monthly Online Nyungne Retreat
with Lama Bu Nima
December 6-8
Hosted by Garchen Dharma Society (GDS)
Medicine Buddha Practice
with the Garchen Institute Lamas
Next Session to be announced
8am -9am PDT (UTC-7)
Medicine Buddha Mantra Accumulation
Mani Mantra Accumulation
Amitabha Mantra Accumulation
Messages and Teachings
Click here for a compilation of important messages and highlights of teachings given by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche.
Note to Sangha
Lopon Barbara DuBois will be on a leave of absence from teachings and individual consultations for three months, starting 1 September 2022, to rest and recharge. She sends you all her love and auspicious wishes, reminding us that we are never apart—our minds are primordially one. We look forward to welcoming her back as soon as she is ready to continue pouring out the Dharma for us all.
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche Film
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.
- Arya 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 Arya Tara sadhana, we will do a different additional practice on a rotating basis. That rotation will look like this:
- Jangchok for the Living (Burning Away Afflications, prayers for the living)
- Jangchok for the Dead (Burning Away Afflications, prayers 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!
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Join Us Online
To participate via livestream,
CLICK HERE
For links to translations in Chinese, Vietnamese & Russian
CLICK HERE
All Texts For Sunday Practice
Each Sunday we will use the texts in the following order:
- Yellow Prayer Book – opening prayers
- White Tara Sadhana,
- with Praise of 21 Taras insert (replacing pages 24 – 39 of the sadhana)
- with Benefits of 21 Praises of Tara
- Weekly Additional Practice –
here we will practice one of the texts marked with an * - Summoning Good Fortune
- Blue Prayer Book – dedication prayer
- Yellow Prayer Book – long life prayers
Yellow Prayer Book:
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White Tara Sadhana:
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Praise of the 21 Taras
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Benefits of Praises to 21 Taras
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* Dharma Protectors (Dharmapalas):
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Dzambala – Summoning Good Fortune
(page 63 of this text):
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* Burning Away Afflictions (Jangchok for the Living and/or the Dead):
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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.
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Request a Puja
To request/sponsor a puja,
CLICK HERE
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.
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Take Vows
To take your Refuge, Bodhisattva, or other vows online,
CLICK HERE
Love is the only cause of happiness.
It’s nature is all pervasive like space.
Love is the sunlight
of the mind.