Events Calendar

The structure of this class will be 20 min relaxation meditation 5 minutes of prayers 25 min Teaching on the prayers from the prayers for world peace booklet (booklet available here: https://tharpa.com/us/prayers-for-world-peace-booklet.html) 20 minutes of prayers with meditation Free for Supporting Members , ...

About the Teacher Training Program The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed for people who wish to train as authentic Dharma Teachers or simply engage with Buddha’s teachings in the deepest possible manner. In addition to completing the study of fourteen texts of Sutra and Tantra, the student is required to obser , ...

A Buddhist meditation class for challenging times. Based on the famous Eight Verses of Training the Mind by the great Bodhisattva, Langri Tangpa, this inspiring series will teach methods for transforming all life’s difficulties into valuable spiritual insights and for developing universal love and compassion, the sourc , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Must have Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment to participate in these prayers. Prayers and meditations that contain the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Buddha Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas. , ...

The practices taught by Buddha are timeless and universally applicable. These days, many people are discovering that Buddhism has answers to questions and solutions to problems that cannot be found anywhere else. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Introduction to Buddhism. Buddhism is the practice of Buddha’s teachings, also called , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Prayers for World Peace is a meditation class that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart.  With a good heart, we are better able to help our increasingly suffering world. Classes include two guided meditations, a talk and inspiring prayers for world peace. “We should know that learning to ch , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

No class on May 25th Explore some of Buddha’s meditation methods that can help you face life’s challenges and difficulties with a calm and centered mind. Free for Supporting Members , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Kadam Heather Rocklin Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the worl , ...

Friday Evenings | 6:00-7:30pm This class will take place at the Broadway Coffeehouse All classes will be in the Dallas Room. 1300 Broadway Street NE Salem, OR 97301 $10, $5 Students Free for Supporting Members < , ...

No Class Exam Period April 30 – May 7 Book: How to Understand the Mind  Saturdays | 3:00pm—5:00pm How to Understand the Mind  by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche is an extraordinary book – at once practical and profound. Wherever you are on your spiritual path, this book is indispensable. It offers a , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

The structure of this class will be 20 min relaxation meditation 5 minutes of prayers 25 min Teaching on the prayers from the prayers for world peace booklet (booklet available here: https://tharpa.com/us/prayers-for-world-peace-booklet.html) 20 minutes of prayers with meditation Free for Supporting Members , ...

About the Teacher Training Program The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed for people who wish to train as authentic Dharma Teachers or simply engage with Buddha’s teachings in the deepest possible manner. In addition to completing the study of fourteen texts of Sutra and Tantra, the student is required to obser , ...

Tara is a female Buddha, a manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. Her name means “Rescuer” because she rescues us from all outer and inner fears. Ultimately she rescues us from all suffering and guides us to full enlightenment. Like a mother she protects us from all internal and external d , ...

A Buddhist meditation class for challenging times. Based on the famous Eight Verses of Training the Mind by the great Bodhisattva, Langri Tangpa, this inspiring series will teach methods for transforming all life’s difficulties into valuable spiritual insights and for developing universal love and compassion, the sourc , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Must have Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment to participate in these prayers. Prayers and meditations that contain the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Buddha Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas. , ...

In this class we will explore how we can use Buddha’s teachings to improve ourself so that we can become someone who is happy all the time and gain the ability to help others do the same. “Although we normally want to be happy all the time, even during sleep, we do not know how to do this. If someone were t , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Prayers for World Peace is a meditation class that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart.  With a good heart, we are better able to help our increasingly suffering world. Classes include two guided meditations, a talk and inspiring prayers for world peace. “We should know that learning to ch , ...

This is a special practice of relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also contains beautiful essential instructions on all the stages of the path to enlightenment and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

No class on May 25th Explore some of Buddha’s meditation methods that can help you face life’s challenges and difficulties with a calm and centered mind. Free for Supporting Members , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Kadam Heather Rocklin Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the worl , ...

Friday Evenings | 6:00-7:30pm This class will take place at the Broadway Coffeehouse All classes will be in the Dallas Room. 1300 Broadway Street NE Salem, OR 97301 $10, $5 Students Free for Supporting Members < , ...

Book: Joyful Path of Good Fortune Joyful Path of Good Fortune by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche is an extraordinary book that encompasses all of Buddha’s eighty-four thousand teachings presented as Lamrim, stages of the path to enlightenment. Although there are countless living beings, humans and non-hum , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

The structure of this class will be 20 min relaxation meditation 5 minutes of prayers 25 min Teaching on the prayers from the prayers for world peace booklet (booklet available here: https://tharpa.com/us/prayers-for-world-peace-booklet.html) 20 minutes of prayers with meditation Free for Supporting Members , ...

In this transference of consciousness, through concentration, compassion, faith, prayers, and mantras the participants assist in directing the consciousness of the recently deceased directly to the Pure Land, where they will be free from suffering and experience true happiness forevermore. You can find the Prayers for , ...

About the Teacher Training Program The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed for people who wish to train as authentic Dharma Teachers or simply engage with Buddha’s teachings in the deepest possible manner. In addition to completing the study of fourteen texts of Sutra and Tantra, the student is required to obser , ...

A Buddhist meditation class for challenging times. Based on the famous Eight Verses of Training the Mind by the great Bodhisattva, Langri Tangpa, this inspiring series will teach methods for transforming all life’s difficulties into valuable spiritual insights and for developing universal love and compassion, the sourc , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Must have Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment to participate in these prayers. Prayers and meditations that contain the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Buddha Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas. , ...

In this class we will explore how we can use Buddha’s teachings to improve ourself so that we can become someone who is happy all the time and gain the ability to help others do the same. “Although we normally want to be happy all the time, even during sleep, we do not know how to do this. If someone were t , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Prayers for World Peace is a meditation class that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart.  With a good heart, we are better able to help our increasingly suffering world. Classes include two guided meditations, a talk and inspiring prayers for world peace. “We should know that learning to ch , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

No class on May 25th Explore some of Buddha’s meditation methods that can help you face life’s challenges and difficulties with a calm and centered mind. Free for Supporting Members , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Kadam Heather Rocklin Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the worl , ...

Friday Evenings | 6:00-7:30pm This class will take place at the Broadway Coffeehouse All classes will be in the Dallas Room. 1300 Broadway Street NE Salem, OR 97301 $10, $5 Students Free for Supporting Members < , ...

Who is Avalokiteshvara? He is an enlightened being – the compassion of all Buddhas. Through engaging in Avalokiteshvara practice, we can first solve our own problems by controlling our desire, anger and ignorance, and then we can lead others to find the real meaning of human life. On this special day, we will make a he , ...

Increase and deepen your good heart through meditation in this Saturday course. Each session will include two guided meditations and a talk explaining how to cherish others at least as much as we cherish ourself. We should know that learning to cherish others is the best method for establishing world peace in general, , ...

The structure of this class will be 20 min relaxation meditation 5 minutes of prayers 25 min Teaching on the prayers from the prayers for world peace booklet (booklet available here: https://tharpa.com/us/prayers-for-world-peace-booklet.html) 20 minutes of prayers with meditation Free for Supporting Members , ...

About the Teacher Training Program The Teacher Training Program (TTP) is designed for people who wish to train as authentic Dharma Teachers or simply engage with Buddha’s teachings in the deepest possible manner. In addition to completing the study of fourteen texts of Sutra and Tantra, the student is required to obser , ...

A Buddhist meditation class for challenging times. Based on the famous Eight Verses of Training the Mind by the great Bodhisattva, Langri Tangpa, this inspiring series will teach methods for transforming all life’s difficulties into valuable spiritual insights and for developing universal love and compassion, the sourc , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Must have Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment to participate in these prayers. Prayers and meditations that contain the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Buddha Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas. , ...

In this class we will explore how we can use Buddha’s teachings to improve ourself so that we can become someone who is happy all the time and gain the ability to help others do the same. “Although we normally want to be happy all the time, even during sleep, we do not know how to do this. If someone were t , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Prayers for World Peace is a meditation class that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart.  With a good heart, we are better able to help our increasingly suffering world. Classes include two guided meditations, a talk and inspiring prayers for world peace. “We should know that learning to ch , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

This is a special practice of relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also contains beautiful essential instructions on all the stages of the path to enlightenment and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. , ...

Thursday Foundation Program with Kadam Heather Rocklin Book: Meaningful to Behold Thursdays | 9:30am-11:30am Meaningful to Behold by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the worl , ...

Book: Joyful Path of Good Fortune Joyful Path of Good Fortune by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche is an extraordinary book that encompasses all of Buddha’s eighty-four thousand teachings presented as Lamrim, stages of the path to enlightenment. Although there are countless living beings, humans and non-hum , ...

Heart Jewel is a special practice for developing compassion, wisdom, and spiritual strength by relying on the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa, and for overcoming obstacles and difficulties in our meditation (Dharma) practice by relying on the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. You can find the Heart Jewel Prayers booklet on T , ...

The structure of this class will be 20 min relaxation meditation 5 minutes of prayers 25 min Teaching on the prayers from the prayers for world peace booklet (booklet available here: https://tharpa.com/us/prayers-for-world-peace-booklet.html) 20 minutes of prayers with meditation Free for Supporting Members , ...

Extensive Prayers to Dorje Shugden This monthly practice takes place on or close to the 29th of each month, so-called Protector Day, and consists principally of prayers to our Dharma Protector, the Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden. A Dharma Protector is an emanation of a Buddha or Bodhisattva whose main functions are to ave , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Must have Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment to participate in these prayers. Prayers and meditations that contain the essence of the self-generation practice of Vajrayogini – the female enlightened Buddha Deity of Highest Yoga Tantra who is the manifestation of the wisdom of all Buddhas. , ...

In this class we will explore how we can use Buddha’s teachings to improve ourself so that we can become someone who is happy all the time and gain the ability to help others do the same. “Although we normally want to be happy all the time, even during sleep, we do not know how to do this. If someone were t , ...

Our 30-minute lunchtime classes are an enjoyable way to ease into meditation. Each class begins with a fifteen minute teaching explaining how to engage in one of six different meditations from the Living Meditation Series. Then the teacher guides the students in the meditation so they gain personal experience of it. Mo , ...

Prayers for World Peace is a meditation class that gives us the opportunity to develop a warm and loving heart.  With a good heart, we are better able to help our increasingly suffering world. Classes include two guided meditations, a talk and inspiring prayers for world peace. “We should know that learning to ch , ...