Week of Events
White Tara Empowerment and Teachings
Practiced by all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, White Tara has been the main deity practice of many well-known Buddhist scholars and siddhas (in both India and Tibet), foremost among them being Nagarjuna and Atisha.Her special function is to…
The Meaning of Empowerments
Most deity yoga practices require that practitioners receive an initiation or empowerment prior to doing the practice. The empowerment ritual confers authority upon the practitioner to engage in the practice of the particular deity for which the empowerment is given.…
White Tara Practice with Gape Lama
Tara Embodies the female wisdom activity of the mind. This special White Tara practice will be led by the Venerable Gape Lama of Garchen Buddhist Institute, and will include teachings on Deity yoga, also called generation or creation stage practice…
