Kathok Centre Events

This is a powerful day in our tradition. Home practice is recommended. 

Green Tara Sādhanā with mantra recitations and long prostrations in the main temple. 

It is highly recommended to bring an offering for the altar to represent your dedication, accumulate merit, and and make a connection with the mandala. Whatever you think would be a pure offering such as flowers, saffron, or fresh fruit are common examples. 

Everyone is welcomed to attend. There is no set price for this event, but your generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Rinpoche advises that every practice has its own preliminary practice, therefore it is very important to arrive at least fifteen minutes prior to start time. This gives time to circumambulate, settle one's mind, present any offering suitable for the altar, and get one's motivation ready. The main gate will be closed ten minutes before the start of practice.

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness. 

Public open time includes; a welcoming orientation from a volunteer, viewing the Stupa set commemorating Sakyamuni Buddha's most significant events and the highest level of enlightenment, walking through the main garden area, visiting the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva statue also the beautiful Green Tara garden, window-viewing and circumambulating the Golden Shrine housing the majestic and powerful Guru Rinpoche Golden Statue amongst many auspicious items, spinning prayer wheels, seeing the light offering pavilion, adding a personal aspiration to the Wishing Garden, and checking out our gift shop. 

There is no admission fee for self-guided tours, but any generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness. 

Prayer of the Preliminary Practice; The Excellent Path of Omniscience from the Dzogpa Chenpo Longchen Nyingthig. Ngöndro practice in the main temple. 

It is highly recommended to bring an offering for the altar to represent your dedication, accumulate merit, and and make a connection with the mandala. Whatever you think would be a pure offering such as flowers, saffron, or fresh fruit are common examples. 

Everyone is welcomed to attend. There is no set price for this event, but your generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Rinpoche advises that every practice has its own preliminary practice, therefore it is very important to arrive at least fifteen minutes prior to start time. This gives time to circumambulate, settle one's mind, present any offering suitable for the altar, and get one's motivation ready. The main gate will be closed ten minutes before the start of practice.

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness. 

Public open time includes; a welcoming orientation from a volunteer, viewing the Stupa set commemorating Sakyamuni Buddha's most significant events and the highest level of enlightenment, walking through the main garden area, visiting the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva statue also the beautiful Green Tara garden, window-viewing and circumambulating the Golden Shrine housing the majestic and powerful Guru Rinpoche Golden Statue amongst many auspicious items, spinning prayer wheels, seeing the light offering pavilion, adding a personal aspiration to the Wishing Garden, and checking out our gift shop. 

There is no admission fee for self-guided tours, but any generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness. 

Guru Rinpoche Tsok, feast offering on this auspicious Guru Rinpoche day in the main temple. 

To represent your dedication, accumulate merit, and truly engage with this practice, it is highly recommended to bring some kind of food as a pure offering for the Tsok.

Tsok is primarily a practice of offering and a powerful method for purifying our samaya.  It refers to the food and drink that will be offered by the practitioners during the practice. It is said that the edible substances represent skillful means and the liquids represent wisdom. It is important that the offering includes many different substances.

The teachings explain that we should be generous in our offerings, and not offer just a little amount with a miserly attitude. We should try to avoid polluting the offerings with limited dualistic concepts, by thinking something is too good or too expensive to offer, or even that something is too dirty or impure, or only offering things we like ourselves and leaving out all the things we don’t like. It is important that we consider the substances as offerings, and not as ordinary food and drink.

Everyone is welcomed to attend. There is no set price for this event, but your generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Rinpoche advises that every practice has its own preliminary practice, therefore it is very important to arrive at least fifteen minutes prior to start time. This gives time to circumambulate, settle one's mind, present any offering suitable for the altar, and get one's motivation ready. The main gate will be closed ten minutes before the start of practice.

On the tenth day of the eleventh month, the ox month, when Guru Rinpoche assumes a wrathful crazy form at Paro Taktsang in Mön and other places, he swears in all the earth lords of Tibet as guardians of the termas. Over the whole of the land of snows, on the borders and in the centre, he conceals unimaginable troves of terma teachings, precious materials, sacred substances and so on, and he gives predictions and advice for safeguarding what will remain of the teachings by means of the termas. Then he is known as Guru Dorjé Drolö.

Public open time includes; a welcoming orientation from a volunteer, viewing the Stupa set commemorating Sakyamuni Buddha's most significant events and the highest level of enlightenment, walking through the main garden area, visiting the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva statue also the beautiful Green Tara garden, window-viewing and circumambulating the Golden Shrine housing the majestic and powerful Guru Rinpoche Golden Statue amongst many auspicious items, spinning prayer wheels, seeing the light offering pavilion, adding a personal aspiration to the Wishing Garden, and checking out our gift shop. 

There is no admission fee for self-guided tours, but any generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness. 

The guided tour led by a volunteer will be much more comprehensive than our regular self-guided tours; this is intended to be more of a vajra-journey including entry into both the magnificent Golden Shrine, and our main temple to observe the majestic statues, beautiful wall hangings and so many auspicious items, with time to reflect or have a little meditation. 

Also included in the tour will be our Stupa sets representing the most significant events in the life of Sakyamuni Buddha, the Kṣitigarbha Boddhisattva statue, Green Tara garden, and other interesting details around the main garden area. There will be an opportunity to light a candle in the light offering pavilion, and add your personal aspiration to the wishing garden.  We will also introduce you to the Centre's uniquely special gift shop. 

This guided tour will begin at 12:30PM, and at that time the gate will be closed. To join, attendees must arrive on time.  It will be impossible to join in after 12:30PM. 

Everyone is welcomed to attend. There is no set price for this event, but your generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness. 

Public open time includes; a welcoming orientation from a volunteer, viewing the Stupa set commemorating Sakyamuni Buddha's most significant events and the highest level of enlightenment, walking through the main garden area, visiting the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva statue also the beautiful Green Tara garden, window-viewing and circumambulating the Golden Shrine housing the majestic and powerful Guru Rinpoche Golden Statue amongst many auspicious items, spinning prayer wheels, seeing the light offering pavilion, adding a personal aspiration to the Wishing Garden, and checking out our gift shop. 

There is no admission fee for self-guided tours, but any generous donation will be important for the continuation, maintenance, and constant improvements of Kathok Centre.  

Any scheduled event could change due to unforeseen circumstances. We do our best to keep the website updated in a timely manner; thank you for the flexiblity and open mindedness.