Padmasambhava Meditation Center (PMC), founded and directed by His Eminence Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche, is a place for the study and practice of meditation in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. PMC is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring happiness and authentic engagement with the teachings of Buddhism.
Open Practice Session
10:00am to 12:00pm
Padmasambhava Meditation Center
Come participate in self-directed meditation practice alongside other members of our community. The center is a warm, welcoming space for practitioners of all experience levels. Sit for ten minutes or two hours—the door will be open and we look forward to seeing you!
Introduction to Meditation
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Padmasambhava Meditation Center
Join us for teachings and basic meditation instruction with His Eminence Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche. The event is free and streamed live when Chhoje Rinpoche is in Denver. Everyone is welcome!
We will practice the Shower of Blessings feast offering (Tib. tsok) for the tenth day of the sixth lunar month which falls this year on Saturday, September 26. The tsok
We will practice the Shower of Blessings feast offering (Tib. tsok) for the tenth day of the sixth lunar month which falls this year on Saturday, September 26. The tsok (feast offering) practice is offered to celebrate each tenth day, Guru Rinpoche Day, in every lunar month.
Each Guru Rinpoche day commemorates a particular episode from Padmasambhava’s life as support to practitioners who wish to deepen their relationship with him, the buddha of our troubled age.
The eighth month: “The non-Buddhists attempt to poison the Guru, but he transforms the poison into amrita (nectar). He becomes luminous and inspires faith in the non-Buddhists. He is known as Guru Nyima Ozer, ‘the Sun-Ray Guru’.”
Excerpt extracted from Tibetan Astrology, in which Phillipe Cornu summarizes Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche’s explanation of each month’s tenth day. Read more here.
H.E. Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche will lead us in tsok practice online beginning at 10:00 a.m. and ending around 12:30 p.m. MDT. Visit our complementary livestream teachings page here to join us online. Or, click this link to watch with us directly via PMC’s YouTube channel.
Please RSVP through by clicking below if you intend to join us.
We will send out digital versions of the Shower of Blessings liturgy and the various introductory and dedication prayers to the email address you submit with your RSVP.
It would also be good to procure at least the “essentials” for the feast offering (bread, cheese, meat, yogurt, and alcohol) and arrange the items in a pleasing way during the practice just like we do when we practice together at the center. You can also offer anything that looks and tastes pleasing to you!
If you would like to make a donation to support this practice at PMC, please donate online by clicking the button below, or send checks to “PMC” at PO Box 3734, Boulder, CO 80307 and email treasurer@pmctr.org with your pledged donation amount no later than Wednesday, September 26.
(Saturday) 10:00 am MDT
Live streamed Online
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29sep7:00 pmChenrezig of the Six Realms for the Deceased Practice Group
This Chenrezig practice is a profound offering for the beings of the six realms. We
This practice group is being led by Tara Roberts. Tara has been a student of His Eminence Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche’s since 1988 and is deeply familiar with this practice.
We meet on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. MDT/6:00 p.m. PDT for the months of August and September. Tara Roberts will email the zoom link each week, so please RSVP to be on the distribution list.
The practice will include recitation of the Seven Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche as the preparation, a full recitation of the Chenrezig of the Six Realms liturgy as the main part, and dedication of merit to conclude. We will recite both the Tibetan and the English.
Please note: this Chenrezig practice session will be dedicated to the deceased. This practice can also be offered for the living, but not during the same practice session.
Please RSVP for this practice. We will send the zoom link via email for you to join the practice group.
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm MST
On-Line Via Zoom
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30sep7:00 pm8:00 pmDudjom Tersar Preliminary Practices Group
As we are discovering, now is the perfect time to revitalize and renew all aspects of our Dharma practice. PMC hosts a preliminary
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm MDT
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04oct10:00 am4:00 amVirtual EventThe Profound Practice of Tukdrub Terkha Dundu
On Sunday, October 4, H.E. Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche will give a day of teachings on the Mahayoga practice of generating and completing the deity called Thukdrup Terkha Dundu: The
On Sunday, October 4, H.E. Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche will give a day of teachings on the Mahayoga practice of generating and completing the deity called Thukdrup Terkha Dundu: The Guru Accomplishment that Embodies Seven Terma Treasures.
This collection of treasures, compiled by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje through the guidance of Yeshe Tsogyal, combines His Holiness’s own treasure revelation with the powerful guru practices of six other treasure revealers (Tib. terton) creating this single stream of blessings to be practiced by fortunate disciples.
Chhoje Rinpoche will teach on how to practice this extensive cycle of teachings in your daily life and upon entering into retreat. Rinpoche will give commentary and retreat guidance by Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche on this particular practice.
Those who have received the Tukdrub Terkha Dundu empowerment and other vajrayana students can attend and listen to these teachings. As a reading to support these teachings and your practice of this sadhana, Rinpoche recommends Jamgon Kongtrul’s Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation.
We will be livestreaming Rinpoches teaching to registered participants. The program will begin at 10 am – 12 Noon, the 2 pm to 4 pm MST.
$60 suggested offering for both sessions. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email treasurer@pmctr.org for information about how to offer an amount of your choosing.
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 4:00 am
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16oct(oct 16)7:00 pm24(oct 24)9:00 pmThe 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva with Christina Monson
A global pandemic, a growing climate crisis, a deepening social divide and a looming election and its moral reckoning in the United States are forcing us to confront
A global pandemic, a growing climate crisis, a deepening social divide and a looming election and its moral reckoning in the United States are forcing us to confront uncertainty in unprecedented ways.
These circumstances are revealing impermanence and interdependence, two of Buddhism’s most important teachings, in felt experiences of stress and trauma that become increasingly difficult to ignore. Mindfulness, a powerful meditation technique taught by Buddha, enables us to develop a compassionate relationship to our experience and as such lays a foundation for healing and transformation.
Mind-training, a practice followed by Buddhist practitioners in different forms for centuries, uproots habitual thinking patterns based on the erroneous belief that the world exists in the way we think it does. Join us as we integrate mindfulness with mind-training techniques in exploring the seminal teaching by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas.
The program will be held over four evenings; Friday, and Saturday, October 16th and 17th then October 23rd and 24th, Each session will begin at 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. MST . The suggested donation for the program is $30 per session.
Each session will be hosted via Zoom conferencing software. Links will either be sent with your order confirmation, or no fewer than one hour before the start of the event.
PMC Members, please enter your discount code when you register for the weekend. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email treasurer@pmctr.org for information about how to offer an amount of your choosing.
16 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 24 (Saturday) 9:00 pm MST
On-Line Via Zoom
Price $30.00 – $120.00
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Join us for a full weekend of meditation instruction and practice with our dear friend and meditation expert Brendan Kennedy! Brendan's teachings are suited to those who have cultivated a daily
Join us for a full weekend of meditation instruction and practice with our dear friend and meditation expert Brendan Kennedy!
Brendan’s teachings are suited to those who have cultivated a daily meditation practice and are looking to deepen their experiential understanding of the practice. Through practicing together and sharing about our practice in an open forum, Brendan guides us to look at and transcend our habitual blocks to awareness and clarity and to give up preoccupation and distraction from who we truly are. This approach leads each person toward freedom from the trappings of ego.
Brendan has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for over 30 years. His main teachers are His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Sokste Rinpoche, and Lama Surya Das. Drawing on his deep study of Ramana Maharishi and Nisagardatta Maharaji, Brendan illuminates the complementary similarities between Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta in his teachings. Brendan offers a few intensive retreats each year but primarily focuses on synthesizing theory and practice at his desert hermitage in California.
Friday, November 13:
7:00 pm – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 14:
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 15:
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Suggested donation for each session: $30
Suggested donation for the full weekend: $150
Each session will be hosted via Zoom conferencing software. Links will either be sent with your order confirmation, or no fewer than one hour before the start of the event.
PMC Members, please enter your discount code when you register for the weekend. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email treasurer@pmctr.org for information about how to offer an amount of your choosing.
13 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 15 (Sunday) 4:00 pm MDT
Padmasambhava Meditation Center
1900 South Cook Street
Price $30.00 – $150.00
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PMC members, near and far, are a community of students who study and practice meditation together, and provide care to each other during difficult times. Becoming a member is about giving this kind of support; the opportunity to practice generosity in terms of volunteer hours, funding, or lending a special skill to the community is highly valued. Members support the activity of the teachers and the organization. We welcome everyone who feels a connection with the center and Chhoje Rinpoche to become a member!
