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North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Intro to Buddhist Puja: Meaning, Purpose, and Practice
Puja is an essential practice in the Tibetan lineage of Buddhism and a powerful way to cultivate merit, purify negativities, and deepen our connection with the Three Jewels. At Ocean of Compassion Buddhist Center, pujas such as Medicine Buddha Puja, Cittamani Tara Puja, and Lama Chopa with Tsog are offered regularly to support the community’s spiritual growth.
This course offers a clear and approachable introduction to the meaning, purpose, and methods of Buddhist puja—both in group settings and at home.
Morning Express Meditation
*Please note times are Mountain Standard
Join Ven. Angie as she leads the Weekday Morning Express Meditation for Thubten Norbu Ling in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Recommended daily practice for intermediate students.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Wisdom for the Heart: Seeing Clearly, Living Freely
According to Tibetan Buddhism, the root of our struggle lies in four subtle, yet powerful misperceptions: we see what is impermanent as lasting, what is unsatisfactory as fulfilling, what is impure as beautiful, and what is selfless as solid and real. These “four wrong concepts” quietly shape how we relate to our lives, our relationships, and ourselves. To counteract these, the Buddha offered four profound insights known as the Four Seals. In this course, we gently bridge these two—moving from distorted perception to liberating insight—exploring how correcting these four deep misunderstandings through an understanding of the four seals transforms not just our thinking, but our heart.
Intro to Buddhist Puja: Meaning, Purpose, and Practice
Puja is an essential practice in the Tibetan lineage of Buddhism and a powerful way to cultivate merit, purify negativities, and deepen our connection with the Three Jewels. At Ocean of Compassion Buddhist Center, pujas such as Medicine Buddha Puja, Cittamani Tara Puja, and Lama Chopa with Tsog are offered regularly to support the community’s spiritual growth.
This course offers a clear and approachable introduction to the meaning, purpose, and methods of Buddhist puja—both in group settings and at home.
Morning Express Meditation
*Please note times are Mountain Standard
Join Ven. Angie as she leads the Weekday Morning Express Meditation for Thubten Norbu Ling in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Recommended daily practice for intermediate students.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Wisdom for the Heart: Seeing Clearly, Living Freely
According to Tibetan Buddhism, the root of our struggle lies in four subtle, yet powerful misperceptions: we see what is impermanent as lasting, what is unsatisfactory as fulfilling, what is impure as beautiful, and what is selfless as solid and real. These “four wrong concepts” quietly shape how we relate to our lives, our relationships, and ourselves. To counteract these, the Buddha offered four profound insights known as the Four Seals. In this course, we gently bridge these two—moving from distorted perception to liberating insight—exploring how correcting these four deep misunderstandings through an understanding of the four seals transforms not just our thinking, but our heart.
Intro to Buddhist Puja: Meaning, Purpose, and Practice
Puja is an essential practice in the Tibetan lineage of Buddhism and a powerful way to cultivate merit, purify negativities, and deepen our connection with the Three Jewels. At Ocean of Compassion Buddhist Center, pujas such as Medicine Buddha Puja, Cittamani Tara Puja, and Lama Chopa with Tsog are offered regularly to support the community’s spiritual growth.
This course offers a clear and approachable introduction to the meaning, purpose, and methods of Buddhist puja—both in group settings and at home.
Wisdom for the Heart: Seeing Clearly, Living Freely
According to Tibetan Buddhism, the root of our struggle lies in four subtle, yet powerful misperceptions: we see what is impermanent as lasting, what is unsatisfactory as fulfilling, what is impure as beautiful, and what is selfless as solid and real. These “four wrong concepts” quietly shape how we relate to our lives, our relationships, and ourselves. To counteract these, the Buddha offered four profound insights known as the Four Seals. In this course, we gently bridge these two—moving from distorted perception to liberating insight—exploring how correcting these four deep misunderstandings through an understanding of the four seals transforms not just our thinking, but our heart.
The Magic of Masters: Walking the Three Principles of the Path Through Living Examples
*Please Note times are in EDT for this Online Course
What makes a master extraordinary? Not miracles, but transformation. In this five-week course, we explore the lives of the great lineage masters as living expressions of the Three Principles of the Path — renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness. Through the stories of masters such as Milarepa and Shakyamuni Buddha, the path becomes personal, embodied, and deeply inspiring.
Through short teachings, meditation and contemplating these life stories we bring the possibility of the path and awakening within our reach.
Wisdom for the Heart: Seeing Clearly, Living Freely
According to Tibetan Buddhism, the root of our struggle lies in four subtle, yet powerful misperceptions: we see what is impermanent as lasting, what is unsatisfactory as fulfilling, what is impure as beautiful, and what is selfless as solid and real. These “four wrong concepts” quietly shape how we relate to our lives, our relationships, and ourselves. To counteract these, the Buddha offered four profound insights known as the Four Seals. In this course, we gently bridge these two—moving from distorted perception to liberating insight—exploring how correcting these four deep misunderstandings through an understanding of the four seals transforms not just our thinking, but our heart.
The Magic of Masters: Walking the Three Principles of the Path Through Living Examples
*Please Note times are in EDT for this Online Course
What makes a master extraordinary? Not miracles, but transformation. In this five-week course, we explore the lives of the great lineage masters as living expressions of the Three Principles of the Path — renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness. Through the stories of masters such as Milarepa and Shakyamuni Buddha, the path becomes personal, embodied, and deeply inspiring.
Through short teachings, meditation and contemplating these life stories we bring the possibility of the path and awakening within our reach.
The Magic of Masters: Walking the Three Principles of the Path Through Living Examples
*Please Note times are in EDT for this Online Course
What makes a master extraordinary? Not miracles, but transformation. In this five-week course, we explore the lives of the great lineage masters as living expressions of the Three Principles of the Path — renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness. Through the stories of masters such as Milarepa and Shakyamuni Buddha, the path becomes personal, embodied, and deeply inspiring.
Through short teachings, meditation and contemplating these life stories we bring the possibility of the path and awakening within our reach.
The Magic of Masters: Walking the Three Principles of the Path Through Living Examples
*Please Note times are in EDT for this Online Course
What makes a master extraordinary? Not miracles, but transformation. In this five-week course, we explore the lives of the great lineage masters as living expressions of the Three Principles of the Path — renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness. Through the stories of masters such as Milarepa and Shakyamuni Buddha, the path becomes personal, embodied, and deeply inspiring.
Through short teachings, meditation and contemplating these life stories we bring the possibility of the path and awakening within our reach.
The Magic of Masters: Walking the Three Principles of the Path Through Living Examples
*Please Note times are in EDT for this Online Course
What makes a master extraordinary? Not miracles, but transformation. In this five-week course, we explore the lives of the great lineage masters as living expressions of the Three Principles of the Path — renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness. Through the stories of masters such as Milarepa and Shakyamuni Buddha, the path becomes personal, embodied, and deeply inspiring.
Through short teachings, meditation and contemplating these life stories we bring the possibility of the path and awakening within our reach.
Ultimate Healing: Medicine Buddha Retreat
In this retreat, we connect with the powerful healing presence of Medicine Buddha (Bhaisajyaguru), whose luminous blue form represents the purification of body, speech, and mind. Through mantra, visualization, and meditation, we invoke not only outer healing, but the profound inner transformation that frees us from suffering at its source.
Ultimate Healing: Medicine Buddha Retreat
In this retreat, we unite the healing practice of Medicine Buddha with some contemplation on the Four Seals of the Dharma — the essential insights that define authentic Buddhist wisdom. Medicine Buddha represents awakened healing: the purification of body, speech, and mind, and the compassionate wish that all beings be free from suffering. Yet true healing goes beyond temporary relief. It comes from seeing reality clearly.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Full Moon Medicine Buddha Puja
The Medicine Buddha puja purifies and heals on all levels: physical, mental, spiritual, and environmental. Medicine Buddha is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings. Prayers to Medicine Buddha are especially powerful because of the extensive prayers they made to benefit us sentient beings. It is considered particularly powerful for people who are sick or have recently died and for bringing both temporal success and the ultimate success of enlightenment.
Weekly Drop-In Meditation
Join Venerable Angie in person for drop-in meditation at Land of Medicine Buddha. These hour-long guided sessions include instruction on posture and concentration practice, nine-round breathing, and an introduction to additional Buddhist mind-training techniques like mantra recitation.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Intro to Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro)
Ngöndro, or preliminary practices, are profound methods for preparing the mind and heart to enter more advanced stages of the Buddhist path. These practices cultivate purification, accumulation of merit, and the stable foundation needed for deeper transformation.
Intro to Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro)
Ngöndro, or preliminary practices, are profound methods for preparing the mind and heart to enter more advanced stages of the Buddhist path. These practices cultivate purification, accumulation of merit, and the stable foundation needed for deeper transformation.
Weekly Drop-In Meditation
Join Venerable Angie in person for drop-in meditation at Land of Medicine Buddha. These hour-long guided sessions include instruction on posture and concentration practice, nine-round breathing, and an introduction to additional Buddhist mind-training techniques like mantra recitation.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Intro to Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro)
Ngöndro, or preliminary practices, are profound methods for preparing the mind and heart to enter more advanced stages of the Buddhist path. These practices cultivate purification, accumulation of merit, and the stable foundation needed for deeper transformation.
Weekly Drop-In Meditation
Join Venerable Angie in person for drop-in meditation at Land of Medicine Buddha. These hour-long guided sessions include instruction on posture and concentration practice, nine-round breathing, and an introduction to additional Buddhist mind-training techniques like mantra recitation.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Intro to Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro)
Ngöndro, or preliminary practices, are profound methods for preparing the mind and heart to enter more advanced stages of the Buddhist path. These practices cultivate purification, accumulation of merit, and the stable foundation needed for deeper transformation.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
35 Buddha Practice and Shakyamuni Buddha Puja
Join Venerable Angie online as she leads practices for the celebration of Chötrul Düchen, the day of miracles, for Shantideva Center in New York. Practices will include Confession to the 35 Buddhas, Shakyamuni Buddha Puja, Long Life Prayer for His Holiness, and The Swift Return Prayer for Lama Zopa RInpoche.
Long Life Prayers for His Holiness, The Dalai Lama and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche
Many of the great masters have said that doing Long Life Prayer for your Guru is the best way to accumulate merit and purification practice. We think this is not late, but rather a very good time to do these Long Life Prayers as both His Holiness and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche are involved in so many dharma activities, and teachings and they are in their older years.
Weekly Drop-In Meditation
Join Venerable Angie in person for drop-in meditation at Land of Medicine Buddha. These hour-long guided sessions include instruction on posture and concentration practice, nine-round breathing, and an introduction to additional Buddhist mind-training techniques like mantra recitation.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Sweeping Away Fears and Obstacles: A Green Tara Meditation Retreat
Meditating on Green Tara is a powerful way to connect with our own innate potential for wisdom and compassion, cultivating confidence, clarity, and success in our spiritual aspirations.
Through visualization, mantra recitation, and heartfelt reflection, we learn to awaken these enlightened qualities within ourselves. As we connect with Tara, we connect with our own wisdom, our own fearless heart, and the compassionate strength that allows us to meet challenges with clarity and skill.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
New Moon Solar Eclipse Medicine Buddha Puja
Join Ven. Angie for an incredibly auspicious Medicine Buddha puja during both a New Moon and a Solar Eclipse. Online Only via Zoom.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Vajrayogini Self-Initiation
Vajrayogini Self Initiation with Elaine Jackson and Venerable Angie Muir through Vajrapani Institute. Online Only. Requires previous Highest Yoga Tantra Vajrayogini Initiation to attend. Stay tuned for more details.
Discovering Buddhism Module 13: Introduction to Tantra
Learn the definition of tantra, how tantra works and why it is a powerful form of practice. Get a broad overview of the four classes of tantra and learn how to practice simple Kriya tantric methods. In addition, find out how to integrate the practices of tantra with lam-rim meditation for optimal results.
Discovering Buddhism Module 13: Introduction to Tantra
Learn the definition of tantra, how tantra works and why it is a powerful form of practice. Get a broad overview of the four classes of tantra and learn how to practice simple Kriya tantric methods. In addition, find out how to integrate the practices of tantra with lam-rim meditation for optimal results.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Foundations of Freedom: Approaching and Sustaining Meditation through the Three Principals of the Path
Meditation becomes deeply transformative when rooted in a clear understanding of the path. In this three-week series, we’ll explore how the Three Principal Aspects of the Path—renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness—form the foundation for a stable and meaningful meditation practice.
North American Community Prayers
Join us each Thursday morning for a short but powerful 30-minute collective practice which will include: Chanting the Names of Manjushri for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Auspicious Return, Tang Tong Gyalpo’s Prayer to Avert War, Epidemics, and Famine and Reciting Mani mantras and His Holiness’ long life prayer.
Discovering Buddhism Module 13: Introduction to Tantra
Learn the definition of tantra, how tantra works and why it is a powerful form of practice. Get a broad overview of the four classes of tantra and learn how to practice simple Kriya tantric methods. In addition, find out how to integrate the practices of tantra with lam-rim meditation for optimal results.
Foundations of Freedom: Approaching and Sustaining Meditation through the Three Principals of the Path
Meditation becomes deeply transformative when rooted in a clear understanding of the path. In this three-week series, we’ll explore how the Three Principal Aspects of the Path—renunciation, bodhicitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness—form the foundation for a stable and meaningful meditation practice.