ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF AMITAYUS

The greatest obstacles to the fulfilment of our wish to experience pure happiness are death and ignorance. Death destroys our opportunity to take the essence of our precious human life, and ignorance destroys our opportunity to develop a pure experience of Dharma. To overcome these obstacles, we need to increase our lifespan and our wisdom, and the principal method for doing this is the yoga of Buddha Amitayus, which is also a special method for increasing the positive power of our mind, or merit.

Kadampa Centres worldwide often engage in this retreat practice once a year.  During the last session there is a distribution of blessed life pills and nectar.

We will be using the ritual prayer booklet ‘The Yoga of Buddha Amitayus’ and although we have copies here that you may use if you wish to purchase your own please visit Tharpa Publishers UK

See the timetable below