Abiding in Wisdom - The Empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa - Uma Kadampa Meditation Centre

Je Tsongkhapa Empowerment

Abiding in Wisdom – The Empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa

Saturday 22nd March 2025

at Uma Kadampa Meditation Centre

with Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Lhachog

Please book in advance to ensure a place

Special Event – Benefactor Members Free

£25.00

Categories: Courses & Retreats, special events

ABOUT THIS SPECIAL EVENT

Do you wish to be happy all the time? If the answer is yes then you definitely need to develop wisdom. Buddha teaches that pure happiness comes from wisdom, which depends upon practising pure spiritual teachings. Through practising pure spiritual teachings you can develop and maintain peace of mind. This inner peace is pure happiness because it comes from wisdom.

On this day Gen Lhachog will grant the empowerment of wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa and give commentary to how we can find pure happiness through developing wisdom following Je Tsongkhapa’s teachings on Sutra and Tantra. This will be based on Ven. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s book Mirror of Dharma with Additions on Je Tsongkhapa’s teachings ‘The Three Principal Aspects of the Path.’

Through receiving an empowerment we

draw closer to wisdom Buddha and ripen our own potential for pure happiness.
remove obstacles to our spiritual practice and find a deeper experience of peace and calm that will benefit both ourselves and others.
have the inner tools to increase our positive attitudes and abandon negative attitudes.

This special day is open to everyone.

See below for the Timetable

TIMETABLE

Empowerment 10.30 – 12.30 pm

Light Vegetarian Lunch

Teaching 2.00 – 4 pm

“In the Ganden Emanation Scripture the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri said:

‘Tsongkhapa, crown ornament of the scholars of the Land of the Snows,

You are Buddha Shakyamuni and Vajradhara, the source of all attainments,

Avalokiteshvara, the treasury of unobservable compassion,

Manjushri, the supreme stainless wisdom,

And Vajrapani, the destroyer of the hosts of maras.

O Venerable Guru-Buddha, synthesis of all Three Jewels,

With my body, speech and mind, respectfully I make requests:

Please grant your blessings to ripen and liberate myself and others,

And bestow the common and supreme attainments.’

This request prayer to Je Tsongkhapa proves that Je Tsongkhapa is the manifestation of Buddha Shakyamuni, Buddha Vajradhara, Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom, and Vajrapani, the Buddha of Power. This in turn proves that he is the manifestation of all the Buddhas. Thus, if we sincerely rely on Je Tsongkhapa and put his oral instructions into practice with strong faith, we will attain enlightenment very quickly. The great practitioner Gyalwa Ensapa and many of his followers attained enlightenment within three years through sincerely practising the oral instructions of Je Tsongkhapa. This is magical! Many scholars have said that the power of Je Tsongkhapa’s blessings and his skilful methods to lead practitioners to the state of enlightenment is unequalled among those of all other Buddhas. We should rejoice in having met the doctrine of Je Tsongkhapa, and in having the opportunity to listen to and practise the oral instructions of this precious Guru who is the synthesis of all Buddhas.” from Mirror of Dharma with Additions by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Gen Lhachog website

ABOUT THE TEACHER

Gen Kelsang Lhachog has been practising and teaching Kadampa meditation for over 20 years. Originally from West Cumbria she has travelled extensively and is happy to be back on local ground. She shares Buddha’s teachings, as presented by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, with a lightness and clarity.

Uma KMC

ABOUT THE VENUE

This class is held at our Centre, 16 – 18 Spencer St, Carlisle. CA1 1BG.

Although we do not have our own car park there is plenty of parking in the streets around the Centre. There are some 1 & 2 hour free parking areas on the streets opposite and Lowther St car park is free parking after 6pm.

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