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Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Monthly Cittamani Tara Puja
Overview of SESSION
Join us once a month for this new puja practice at Leeds – The Four Mandala Offerings to Cittamani Tara. Jamyang Leeds is going through some challenging times this year, and we did some checking with Lama’s what we could do.
DATE: Online and in person
TIME: 5:00-6:30pm
In addition to the practices we’re already doing, this puja came out good to do once a month. So we’re going to start this week.
The puja will be at the Centre, and online, and will involve four rounds of offerings praises to the 21 tara’s. Everything will be explained during the practice and you don’t need to know anything about it to join in. All levels welcome. It involves a lot of chanting so bring your singing voice! The more people who can join us in person the better, it’s more powerful that way. We’ll have cymbals, drums bells etc for this who would like to play those during the practice.
The puja starts at 5pm, if some can please join us as 4:30pm to help set up the altar that would be great, it’s takes some time to set everything up.
We’re planning to do these pujas on the 2nd Thursday of every month, 5pm, until July this year and see how we are then. It’s a really wonderful practice to do together for removing obstacles by focusing on the female energy of ‘compassionate wisdom.’ We’ll do dedications together at the end of each puja so bring names of family, loved ones etc you’d like included.”

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

Why is Life Such as Hassle?- Transforming Negative Emotions, a Public Talk with Ven. Amy Miller
Overview of Session
DATE: 8 August 2025
TIME: 6:30 – 8:30pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £10 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Amy.
Talk Overview
The desire for happiness serves as a major motivation in our lives, yet we often experience numerous obstacles to achieving it. Despite our material comforts and beneficial circumstances, frustration, fear, anxiety, depression, along with other less than generous mind states, cloud our view. Practical techniques and meditation included. Open to all levels.
About Ven. Amy
Amy was ordained as a Buddhist nun in June 2000 by the great Tibetan master, Ven. Choden Rinpoche, and has been teaching extensively since 1992. Her teaching style emphasizes a practical approach to integrating Buddhist philosophy into everyday life. She is happy to help people connect with meditation and mindfulness in an effort to gain a refreshing perspective on normally stressful living. Amy’s courses and retreats focus on establishing and maintaining a meditation and mindfulness practice, death and dying, overcoming anxiety and depression, battling addiction, dealing with self-esteem issues, and cultivating compassion and loving kindness. She is also often involved in leading a variety of retreats.
Amy is the co-author of Buddhism in a Nutshell – and a contributor to Living in the Path, a series of online courses produced by FPMT.
Based in the United States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amy teaches and leads retreats and pilgrimages around the world. Her teaching schedule and other information can be found at www.AmyMiller.com.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Amy will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, she will be delving deeper into the same topic on Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm, and Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe on either or both days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

Why is Life Such as Hassle?- Transforming Negative Emotions- weekend teachings
Overview of Session
DATE: 9 August 2025
TIME: 10:00am-4:00pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £30 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Amy.
Saturday Teaching Overview
Building upon the themes introduced during the Friday talk, Saturday’s full-day teaching will delve deeper into the practical application of Buddhist teachings to enhance our emotional well-being and cultivate happiness in our daily lives. Ven. Amy Miller will guide participants through a comprehensive day of teachings, discussion, and meditation practices designed to equip us with the tools needed to overcome inner obstacles and develop a lasting sense of contentment.
The desire for happiness serves as a major motivation in our lives, yet we often experience numerous obstacles to achieving it. Despite our material comforts and beneficial circumstances, frustration, fear, anxiety, depression, along with other less than generous mind states, cloud our view. Practical techniques and meditation included. Open to all levels.
Schedule for the day:
10:00-11:00am – Session 1
11:00-11:30 – Break (enjoy tea, coffee and snacks in our cafe)
11:30 – 12:30 – Session 2
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch (enjoy lunch in our cafe)
1:30 – 2:30 - Session 3
2:30 – 3:00 - Break
3:00 – 4:00 - Session 4
About Ven. Amy
Amy was ordained as a Buddhist nun in June 2000 by the great Tibetan master, Ven. Choden Rinpoche, and has been teaching extensively since 1992. Her teaching style emphasizes a practical approach to integrating Buddhist philosophy into everyday life. She is happy to help people connect with meditation and mindfulness in an effort to gain a refreshing perspective on normally stressful living. Amy’s courses and retreats focus on establishing and maintaining a meditation and mindfulness practice, death and dying, overcoming anxiety and depression, battling addiction, dealing with self-esteem issues, and cultivating compassion and loving kindness. She is also often involved in leading a variety of retreats.
Amy is the co-author of Buddhism in a Nutshell – and a contributor to Living in the Path, a series of online courses produced by FPMT.
Based in the United States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amy teaches and leads retreats and pilgrimages around the world. Her teaching schedule and other information can be found at www.AmyMiller.com.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Amy will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, she will be delving deeper into the same topic on Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe on either or both days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

Why is Life Such as Hassle?- Transforming Negative Emotions- weekend teachings
Overview of Session
DATE: 10 August 2025
TIME: 10:00am-12:30pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £15 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Amy.
Sunday Teaching Overview
On Sunday, we will continue our exploration with Ven. Amy Miller, building upon the insights from the previous day. This session will offer a deeper dive into the practical application of Buddhist teachings, focusing on how to sustain emotional balance and cultivate lasting happiness in our daily lives. Through further teachings, discussions, and meditation, Ven. Amy will guide us in addressing the inner obstacles that hinder our well-being, helping us strengthen our capacity for peace and contentment.
As we navigate life’s challenges, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by negative emotions like frustration, fear, and anxiety. Yet, with the right tools and practices, we can learn to transform these barriers into opportunities for growth. This session is open to all levels and will include practical meditation techniques to support lasting emotional well-being.
Schedule for the day:
10:00-11:00am – Session 1
11:00-11:15 – Short Break (enjoy tea, coffee and snacks in our cafe)
11:15 – 12:30 – Session 2
12:30 onwards – Lunch (enjoy lunch in our cafe)
About Ven. Amy
Amy was ordained as a Buddhist nun in June 2000 by the great Tibetan master, Ven. Choden Rinpoche, and has been teaching extensively since 1992. Her teaching style emphasizes a practical approach to integrating Buddhist philosophy into everyday life. She is happy to help people connect with meditation and mindfulness in an effort to gain a refreshing perspective on normally stressful living. Amy’s courses and retreats focus on establishing and maintaining a meditation and mindfulness practice, death and dying, overcoming anxiety and depression, battling addiction, dealing with self-esteem issues, and cultivating compassion and loving kindness. She is also often involved in leading a variety of retreats.
Amy is the co-author of Buddhism in a Nutshell – and a contributor to Living in the Path, a series of online courses produced by FPMT.
Based in the United States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amy teaches and leads retreats and pilgrimages around the world. Her teaching schedule and other information can be found at www.AmyMiller.com.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Amy will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, she will be delving deeper into the same topic on Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe on either or both days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Tara Puja for World Peace
Overview of Session
DATE: 2025: Last Monday monthly with a break in August. The May session will be held on the 19th and December the 15th.
TIME: 5pm-6pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £6
Tara Puja dedicated to world peace is held on a monthly basis.
Led by Venerable Thubten Tenzin January to April and Ondy Willson June to December
Please join us, occasionally or regularly, at 17.00 UK time to show our support for the courageous spiritual communities both in Ukraine & Russia and also in Israel and Gaza. May we all nurture compassion & peace in the face of destruction & violence.
By coming together like this we send a powerful message that comes from the depths of our being. We value peace, harmony and the enlightened qualities we aspire to embody, as generated in the 21 Taras Sadhana.
By the power of our merit may there be a non-violent and bloodless revolution of consciousness so that enlightened democracies based on social wellbeing flourish everywhere.
Please forward this invitation to anyone who you think may be interested in this free and beneficial session.
Tenzin will translate into Russian for Russian and Ukrainian students. The puja will last approximately 45 minutes to include some guidance on harnessing the positive power of the prayers in generating the particular qualities of compassion and fearlessness.
Ondy Willson, a touring FPMT teacher since 2007, has students in Russia & Ukraine, so felt particularly moved to offer these pujas both to connect with & support those who are suffering on the front line. So these pujas have provided, not just an opportunity to deal with fear and pray for peace, but to meet directly together as a global community and interact with our Ukrainian and Russian dharma friends. At the end of one week’s puja, participants in Ukraine & Russia shared their stories & experiences, which was very moving for us all to hear.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Tonglen Loving Kindness meditation Practice
Overview of Tonglen Meditation
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
A beautiful practice led by Chrissie and Di.
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion. You imagine giving all your happiness to others, sometimes using visualisation with the breath, and then taking all the suffering and its causes from others. It’s a powerful practice for the brave-hearted!

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Lama Choepa (Guru Puja) and Tsog
Overview of Session
DATES: 4th August 11am; 2nd September 12:30pm; 2nd October 11am; 14th November 12:30pm; 14th December 11am
TIME: 90 minute sessions, start time varies
LOCATION: In Person
LEVEL: Buddhist Ceremonies – All Welcome
Dedicated to the Swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a bright unmistaken child.
During the practice of Lama Choepa, we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realizations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere, heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of this precious lineage and quickly actualize the realizations we need to attain enlightenment. If we wish to experience realisations quickly, the practice of Lama Choepa is indispensable.
“If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily life, it contains all the important points of sutra and tantra. It is a complete practice, and it shows the heart of the instruction of Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition. Even if one can’t do much else in daily life, Guru Puja is the essential practice.”
Open to all Buddhists, no empowerments needed.
Please arrive early and bring flowers, incense, vegetarian food and drink as offerings for the altar.
More information can also be found on this FPMT page.

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep - Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep - Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

Children’s Mindfulness (4-5 years)
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Saturday’s monthly
TIME: 10:00 – 10:30am (there is also a later session for 6 to 12 year olds on the same day)
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – Children 4 to 5 years old
COST: Click below to donate, or donate on the day in centre (suggested donation $5)
Monthly Children’s Mindfulness Sessions at Jamyang Buddhist Center Overview:
We are delighted to offer monthly mindfulness sessions designed for children at the Jamyang Buddhist Center. These sessions are a wonderful opportunity for children to learn mindfulness techniques, explore creativity, and practice yoga in a fun and engaging way.
Session Breakdown:
For 4 to 5-year-olds:
The first session of each month is specifically designed for children ages 4 to 5. This session will be held from 10:00 am to 10:30 am and is tailored to introduce young children to mindfulness through simple practices, gentle yoga, and fun activities.
For 6 to 12-year-olds:
The second session, held on a Saturday each month, is for children ages 6 to 12. This session will run from 10:45 am to 11:30 am and will focus on more age-appropriate mindfulness practices, including mindful movement, arts and crafts, and guided meditations.
Upcoming Themes & Dates:
Mindful Movement and Yoga
5 April, 5 July, 4 October
Mindful Arts and Crafts
3 May, 2 August, 1 November
Mindful Parenting Session (with parents)
31 May, 6 September, 29 November
Booking Information:
To reserve your spot for these monthly sessions, please send an email to:
childrensyoga.yogime@gmail.com
We look forward to welcoming you and your child to our mindfulness sessions at the Jamyang Buddhist Center!

Children’s Mindfulness (6-12 years old)
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Saturday’s monthly
TIME: 10:45– 11:30am (there is also an earlier session for 4 to 5 year olds on the same day)
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – Children 6 to 12 years old
COST: Click below to donate, or donate on the day in centre (suggested donation $5)
Monthly Children’s Mindfulness Sessions at Jamyang Buddhist Center Overview:
We are delighted to offer monthly mindfulness sessions designed for children at the Jamyang Buddhist Center. These sessions are a wonderful opportunity for children to learn mindfulness techniques, explore creativity, and practice yoga in a fun and engaging way.
Session Breakdown:
For 6 to 12-year-olds:
The second session, held on a Saturday each month, is for children ages 6 to 12. This session will run from 10:45 am to 11:30 am and will focus on more age-appropriate mindfulness practices, including mindful movement, arts and crafts, and guided meditations.
For 4 to 5-year-olds:
The first session of each month is specifically designed for children ages 4 to 5. This session will be held from 10:00 am to 10:30 am and is tailored to introduce young children to mindfulness through simple practices, gentle yoga, and fun activities.
Upcoming Themes & Dates:
Mindful Movement and Yoga
5 April, 5 July, 4 October
Mindful Arts and Crafts
3 May, 2 August, 1 November
Mindful Parenting Session (with parents)
31 May, 6 September, 29 November
Booking Information:
To reserve your spot for these monthly sessions, please send an email to:
childrensyoga.yogime@gmail.com
We look forward to welcoming you and your child to our mindfulness sessions at the Jamyang Buddhist Center!

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
-Welcome, Introduction and Motivation (5 mins)
-Settling Meditation (10 mins)
-Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience (15 mins)
-Guided meditation (15 mins)
-Feedback from participants (10 mins)
-Closing and Dedication (5 mins)
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Prayers to stop war
Overview of Session
DATE: First Monday of the month
TIME: 7:30am-8:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In 2022, after the war in Ukraine started, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice on prayers and practices to do in order to pacify the threats of war. All are welcome to download the booklet, Prayers to Stop War.
At the time, Lama Zopa Rinpoche also gave advice for how to motivate and think when doing these prayers and practices:
At the beginning generate strong bodhicitta, then do these prayers and practices to stop the war. The main purpose is to stop the war immediately. Then also to prevent famine, disease, and all the dangers of earth, water, fire, and wind, for all these dangers to be pacified immediately. To fill the whole world with perfect peace and happiness, including enlightenment, and to generate loving kindness, compassion and bodhicitta in the heart of all sentient beings.
Think that from Guru Padmasambhava’s heart, beams radiate and totally purify all the six realms’ sentient beings, totally purify all the delusions and negative karmas collected from beginningless rebirths, especially anger, attachment, and ignorance; think that these are totally purified. Then recite Sampa Lhundrupma, followed by the Padmasambhava mantra (one or two malas).
With strong faith in Guru Padmasambhava and total reliance, Guru Padmasambhava will definitely help because his compassion embraces all sentient beings.
Then another way to think is, with strong faith in His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the aspect of Guru Padmasambhava, nectar beams are emitted to all leaders of war, entering the body and totally purifying all negative karma and obscurations; all the dissatisfied mind, desire, ignorance, anger, and selfish mind are totally purified; they generate bodhicitta especially, and then the whole path to enlightenment. Do that very strongly, making strong prayers to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Then nectar beams are also emitted to all involved, and these purify all the anger and self-cherishing thought. They generate bodhicitta, and stop giving harm to even one sentient being and only benefit sentient beings, up to enlightenment.
Then recite the Heart Sutra and the prayer to stop wars.
For those who can do the Most Secret Hayagriva sadhana, do this at the beginning of the practice. When reciting the mantra, you can do the same visualizations as above.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice in 2022 to IMI Sangha on prayers and practices they could do in response to the developing war in Ukraine. The above motivation was edited slightly to be more general in order to be relevant for current threats at any time. The original advice can be read here. Please download Prayers to Stop War .

Tonglen Loving Kindness meditation Practice
Overview of Tonglen Meditation
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
A beautiful practice led by Chrissie and Di.
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion. You imagine giving all your happiness to others, sometimes using visualisation with the breath, and then taking all the suffering and its causes from others. It’s a powerful practice for the brave-hearted!

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep - Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep - Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Monthly Cittamani Tara Puja
Overview of SESSION
Join us once a month for this new puja practice at Leeds – The Four Mandala Offerings to Cittamani Tara. Jamyang Leeds is going through some challenging times this year, and we did some checking with Lama’s what we could do.
DATE: Online and in person
TIME: 5:00-6:30pm
In addition to the practices we’re already doing, this puja came out good to do once a month. So we’re going to start this week.
The puja will be at the Centre, and online, and will involve four rounds of offerings praises to the 21 tara’s. Everything will be explained during the practice and you don’t need to know anything about it to join in. All levels welcome. It involves a lot of chanting so bring your singing voice! The more people who can join us in person the better, it’s more powerful that way. We’ll have cymbals, drums bells etc for this who would like to play those during the practice.
The puja starts at 5pm, if some can please join us as 4:30pm to help set up the altar that would be great, it’s takes some time to set everything up.
We’re planning to do these pujas on the 2nd Thursday of every month, 5pm, until July this year and see how we are then. It’s a really wonderful practice to do together for removing obstacles by focusing on the female energy of ‘compassionate wisdom.’ We’ll do dedications together at the end of each puja so bring names of family, loved ones etc you’d like included.”

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
-Welcome, Introduction and Motivation (5 mins)
-Settling Meditation (10 mins)
-Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience (15 mins)
-Guided meditation (15 mins)
-Feedback from participants (10 mins)
-Closing and Dedication (5 mins)
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Vipassana Meditation
Overview of Vipassana Meditation
Join us for a peaceful start to your week with a 30 minute Vipassana meditation session, designed to cultivate mindfulness, self-awareness, and equanimity.
DATE: Mondays
TIME: 7:00am to 7:30am
Vipassana (Special Insight Meditation), also called analytical meditation, is primarily a practice of wisdom. It is a form of concentration that focuses single-pointedly on the ultimate nature of phenomena through analytical reasoning. Analysing phenomena is a key aspect of Vipassana practice, as it helps develop a definitive understanding of the nature of reality—such as the self, mind, emotions, and thoughts.
As Je Tsongkhapa explains, shamatha (calm abiding) is like a lamp that remains clear and steady in a place without wind, whereas vipassana (special insight) is like seeing the nature of phenomena clearly through such a steady and clear lamp. Therefore, the usual order of these two meditations is: first, achieving calm abiding or mental stability as a foundation, then engaging in special insight meditation through analysis. However, Vipassana meditation can also be practised by analysing and observing sensations, thoughts, and emotions without first achieving shamatha. This practice should still begin with focusing on the breath or another object of meditation. In our case, we will focus on the breath to start analysing the nature of the mind in relation to our sense of self, emotions, and thoughts.
The session begins by focusing on the breath—either the rise and fall of the abdomen or the sensation of air entering and leaving the nostrils. This practice calms the mind and helps establish a deep sense of presence.
Next, we move into a guided body scan, bringing awareness to different parts of the body and observing subtle sensations without judgement. This helps develop a greater connection to your physical experience.
As we proceed, you will practise observing and analysing sensations, thoughts, and emotions as they arise, learning to witness them without attachment or aversion. This fosters a deeper understanding of the impermanence and interconnectedness of the mind and self. Finally, you will rest your mind either in the natural state of awareness or in the analytical clarity gained through observation and reasoning.
Through regular practice, Vipassana meditation cultivates wisdom, encouraging a balanced and objective view of internal experiences. This session is ideal for those seeking greater insight and calmness in their daily lives.

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Tonglen Loving Kindness meditation Practice
Overview of Tonglen Meditation
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
A beautiful practice led by Chrissie and Di.
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion. You imagine giving all your happiness to others, sometimes using visualisation with the breath, and then taking all the suffering and its causes from others. It’s a powerful practice for the brave-hearted!

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Empathy Circles
Overview of Session
When: Tuesdays September 16th, 23rd, 30th 2025
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Level: Wellbeing – All levels
Facilitators: Ruth & Priyanka
Join us for a unique opportunity to speak our minds freely in an Empathy Circle, where you have an opportunity to speak openly with a chance for a listener to reflect back the essence of what you are expressing, without judgement. The Circle includes the values of Respect, Clarity and Equanimity.
The Topic of this Empathy Circle is "Whatever is on your mind or How do you perceive what is you?
Please feel free to email: jampakytsom@gmail.com with any questions

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep - Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep - Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Discovering Buddhism
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Thursday’s weekly 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Intermediate students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
-Welcome, Introduction and Motivation (5 mins)
-Settling Meditation (10 mins)
-Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience (15 mins)
-Guided meditation (15 mins)
-Feedback from participants (10 mins)
-Closing and Dedication (5 mins)
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Vipassana Meditation
Overview of Vipassana Meditation
Join us for a peaceful start to your week with a 30 minute Vipassana meditation session, designed to cultivate mindfulness, self-awareness, and equanimity.
DATE: Mondays
TIME: 7:00am to 7:30am
Vipassana (Special Insight Meditation), also called analytical meditation, is primarily a practice of wisdom. It is a form of concentration that focuses single-pointedly on the ultimate nature of phenomena through analytical reasoning. Analysing phenomena is a key aspect of Vipassana practice, as it helps develop a definitive understanding of the nature of reality—such as the self, mind, emotions, and thoughts.
As Je Tsongkhapa explains, shamatha (calm abiding) is like a lamp that remains clear and steady in a place without wind, whereas vipassana (special insight) is like seeing the nature of phenomena clearly through such a steady and clear lamp. Therefore, the usual order of these two meditations is: first, achieving calm abiding or mental stability as a foundation, then engaging in special insight meditation through analysis. However, Vipassana meditation can also be practised by analysing and observing sensations, thoughts, and emotions without first achieving shamatha. This practice should still begin with focusing on the breath or another object of meditation. In our case, we will focus on the breath to start analysing the nature of the mind in relation to our sense of self, emotions, and thoughts.
The session begins by focusing on the breath—either the rise and fall of the abdomen or the sensation of air entering and leaving the nostrils. This practice calms the mind and helps establish a deep sense of presence.
Next, we move into a guided body scan, bringing awareness to different parts of the body and observing subtle sensations without judgement. This helps develop a greater connection to your physical experience.
As we proceed, you will practise observing and analysing sensations, thoughts, and emotions as they arise, learning to witness them without attachment or aversion. This fosters a deeper understanding of the impermanence and interconnectedness of the mind and self. Finally, you will rest your mind either in the natural state of awareness or in the analytical clarity gained through observation and reasoning.
Through regular practice, Vipassana meditation cultivates wisdom, encouraging a balanced and objective view of internal experiences. This session is ideal for those seeking greater insight and calmness in their daily lives.

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Tonglen Loving Kindness meditation Practice
Overview of Tonglen Meditation
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
A beautiful practice led by Chrissie and Di.
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion. You imagine giving all your happiness to others, sometimes using visualisation with the breath, and then taking all the suffering and its causes from others. It’s a powerful practice for the brave-hearted!

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Empathy Circles
Overview of Session
When: Tuesdays September 16th, 23rd, 30th 2025
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Level: Wellbeing – All levels
Facilitators: Ruth & Priyanka
Join us for a unique opportunity to speak our minds freely in an Empathy Circle, where you have an opportunity to speak openly with a chance for a listener to reflect back the essence of what you are expressing, without judgement. The Circle includes the values of Respect, Clarity and Equanimity.
The Topic of this Empathy Circle is "Whatever is on your mind or How do you perceive what is you?
Please feel free to email: jampakytsom@gmail.com with any questions

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

16 Guidelines - Meditation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep - Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep - Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Discovering Buddhism
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Thursday’s weekly 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Intermediate students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

FPMT Planetary Crisis Summit 2025
Overview of Summit
DATE: Saturday 27- Sunday 28 September
TIME: 10:00-15:00 each day
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Eco-Dharma – All levels
REGISTRATION DETAILS TO FOLLOW
In 2024, the FPMT Planetary Crises Summit was hosted by our sister center, Jamyang London. This year, our sister centre Maitreya - Amsterdam will organise the event in a new hybrid format where centres across Europe unite to join together for the smmit over two days
Theme
These days are dedicated to Resilient to be, Empowered to act. The planetary crises, or metacrises, refer to the set of interconnected global challenges – such as war, climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality – that together pose a profound threat to life on Earth. This event offers a rich program of inspiring teachings, presentations, meditations, and shared dialogue.
Why participate?
Because you are touched by what is happening in the world
To explore together how we can deepen our Dharma practice and connect it to what is happening in the world, so we can contribute in more effective ways
To gain insights into how we can support one another in remaining calm, resilient, and act compassionately, and how we can be a refuge – for ourselves and for others
To feel supported by a community in these times
Day 1 - Resilient to be
Resilience = the capacity to recover, adapt, and grow stronger fromadversity, challenges, or stress.
How resilient are you faced with the planetary crises? What do you need to be resilient to be present in this troubled world?
• Morning (central): teachings/presentations, joint meditation
• Afternoon (local): walking meditation and sharing/discussion - Facilitated by David Midgley
• Dedication (central)
Day 2 - Empowered to act
Empowered = having the inner strength, confidence, and resources to shape your own destiny and create meaningful change in your life
and the world around you.
What if we, as a community and as a person, are a protective & nourishing refuge for people to grow their positive influence in the
planetary crises?
• Morning (central): teachings/presentations, joint meditation
• Afternoon (local): walking meditation and sharing/discussion - Facilitated by David Midgley
• Dedication (central)
Summit format:
SUMMIT MOTIVATION:

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
-Welcome, Introduction and Motivation (5 mins)
-Settling Meditation (10 mins)
-Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience (15 mins)
-Guided meditation (15 mins)
-Feedback from participants (10 mins)
-Closing and Dedication (5 mins)
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in September with themes:
7th Sep Honesty
14th Sep - Generosity (in Gompa)
21st Sep Right Speech
28th Sep - Respect
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in September with themes:
3rd Sep - Kindness
10th Sep - Honesty
17th Sep - - Generosity
24th Sep - Right Speech

FPMT IDMT Discussion Group – Year 2 Term 2
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Last Sunday monthly
TIME: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: For In Depth Meditation Training students only
This discussion groups kindly led by Ruth, meets on the last Sunday monthly for students of the In Depth Meditation Training (IDMT) course to explore the topics of the course together.
If you are an IDMT student either at Jamyang Leeds or any of the other host centres and would like to join please ask our Spiritual Programme Coordinator for the zoom link by emailing spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
If you are not yet an IDMT student and would like to know more about the course, you can find out more on our In Depth Meditation Training page here.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83466951221
Meeting ID: 834 6695 1221

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

Tara Puja for World Peace
Overview of Session
DATE: 2025: Last Monday monthly with a break in August. The May session will be held on the 19th and December the 15th.
TIME: 5pm-6pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £6
Tara Puja dedicated to world peace is held on a monthly basis.
Led by Venerable Thubten Tenzin January to April and Ondy Willson June to December
Please join us, occasionally or regularly, at 17.00 UK time to show our support for the courageous spiritual communities both in Ukraine & Russia and also in Israel and Gaza. May we all nurture compassion & peace in the face of destruction & violence.
By coming together like this we send a powerful message that comes from the depths of our being. We value peace, harmony and the enlightened qualities we aspire to embody, as generated in the 21 Taras Sadhana.
By the power of our merit may there be a non-violent and bloodless revolution of consciousness so that enlightened democracies based on social wellbeing flourish everywhere.
Please forward this invitation to anyone who you think may be interested in this free and beneficial session.
Tenzin will translate into Russian for Russian and Ukrainian students. The puja will last approximately 45 minutes to include some guidance on harnessing the positive power of the prayers in generating the particular qualities of compassion and fearlessness.
Ondy Willson, a touring FPMT teacher since 2007, has students in Russia & Ukraine, so felt particularly moved to offer these pujas both to connect with & support those who are suffering on the front line. So these pujas have provided, not just an opportunity to deal with fear and pray for peace, but to meet directly together as a global community and interact with our Ukrainian and Russian dharma friends. At the end of one week’s puja, participants in Ukraine & Russia shared their stories & experiences, which was very moving for us all to hear.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Tonglen Loving Kindness meditation Practice
Overview of Tonglen Meditation
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
A beautiful practice led by Chrissie and Di.
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion. You imagine giving all your happiness to others, sometimes using visualisation with the breath, and then taking all the suffering and its causes from others. It’s a powerful practice for the brave-hearted!

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Empathy Circles
Overview of Session
When: Tuesdays September 16th, 23rd, 30th 2025
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Level: Wellbeing – All levels
Facilitators: Ruth & Priyanka
Join us for a unique opportunity to speak our minds freely in an Empathy Circle, where you have an opportunity to speak openly with a chance for a listener to reflect back the essence of what you are expressing, without judgement. The Circle includes the values of Respect, Clarity and Equanimity.
The Topic of this Empathy Circle is "Whatever is on your mind or How do you perceive what is you?
Please feel free to email: jampakytsom@gmail.com with any questions

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Lama Choepa (Guru Puja) and Tsog
Overview of Session
DATES: 4th August 11am; 2nd September 12:30pm; 2nd October 11am; 14th November 12:30pm; 14th December 11am
TIME: 90 minute sessions, start time varies
LOCATION: In Person
LEVEL: Buddhist Ceremonies – All Welcome
Dedicated to the Swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a bright unmistaken child.
During the practice of Lama Choepa, we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realizations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere, heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of this precious lineage and quickly actualize the realizations we need to attain enlightenment. If we wish to experience realisations quickly, the practice of Lama Choepa is indispensable.
“If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily life, it contains all the important points of sutra and tantra. It is a complete practice, and it shows the heart of the instruction of Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition. Even if one can’t do much else in daily life, Guru Puja is the essential practice.”
Open to all Buddhists, no empowerments needed.
Please arrive early and bring flowers, incense, vegetarian food and drink as offerings for the altar.
More information can also be found on this FPMT page.

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Discovering Buddhism
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Thursday’s weekly 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Intermediate students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Discovering Buddhism
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Thursday’s weekly 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Intermediate students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Venerable Robina - Public talk
Overview of Session
DATE: 16 October 2025
TIME: 6:30 – 8:30pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £10 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Robina.
Talk Overview
Topic: How to Understand that Attachment and Anger are the Source of our Day to Day Problems
Ven. Robina shares a bit about her life
Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Robina will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, commencing Thursday 16 through to Sunday 19th October. She will be delving deeper into the same topic on Friday and Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm, and Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe each of the days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

Discovering Buddhism
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Thursday’s weekly 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Intermediate students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

Venerable Robina - Teaching day
Overview of Session
DATE: Friday 17 October 2025
TIME: 10:00 – 4:00pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £30 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Robina.
SESSION Overview
TOPIC: COMPASSION IS NOT ENOUGH – WE NEED WISDOM
There’s a saying in Buddhism that a bird needs two wings: wisdom and compassion. The development of the courageous compassion of the bodhisattvas is the point of the path to enlightenment, but in order to be effective we must first put ourselves together: develop the wisdom wing.
In other words, we first need to go beyond our limited sense of self by understanding karma – realizing that we’re the creators of our own reality and not just victims of external forces – and delving deeply into our own mind and lessening attachment, anger and the rest and growing our virtue and goodness.
Then we can see start to realize that we’re all in the same boat: we all suffer for the same reasons and have all got the same marvellous potential, so how can we not have compassion for everyone?
The great bodhisattvas are fierce in their determination to never give up on sentient beings: they “think in terms of eons,” as His Holiness the Dalai Lama says.
SCHEDULE TO FOLLOW
Ven. Robina shares a bit about her life
Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Robina will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, commencing Thursday 16 through to Sunday 19th October. She will be delving deeper into the same topic on Friday and Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm, and Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe each of the days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

Venerable Robina - Teaching day
Overview of Session
DATE: Saturday 18 October 2025
TIME: 10:00 – 4:00pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £30 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Robina.
SESSION Overview
TOPIC: COMPASSION IS NOT ENOUGH – WE NEED WISDOM
There’s a saying in Buddhism that a bird needs two wings: wisdom and compassion. The development of the courageous compassion of the bodhisattvas is the point of the path to enlightenment, but in order to be effective we must first put ourselves together: develop the wisdom wing.
In other words, we first need to go beyond our limited sense of self by understanding karma – realizing that we’re the creators of our own reality and not just victims of external forces – and delving deeply into our own mind and lessening attachment, anger and the rest and growing our virtue and goodness.
Then we can see start to realize that we’re all in the same boat: we all suffer for the same reasons and have all got the same marvellous potential, so how can we not have compassion for everyone?
The great bodhisattvas are fierce in their determination to never give up on sentient beings: they “think in terms of eons,” as His Holiness the Dalai Lama says.
Ven. Robina shares a bit about her life
Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Robina will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, commencing Thursday 16 through to Sunday 19th October. She will be delving deeper into the same topic on Friday and Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm, and Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe each of the days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Venerable Robina - Teaching MORNING
Overview of Session
DATE: Sunday 19 October 2025
TIME: 10:00 – 12:30pm - join us for lunch afterwards
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £10 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Robina.
SESSION Overview
TOPIC: COMPASSION IS NOT ENOUGH – WE NEED WISDOM
There’s a saying in Buddhism that a bird needs two wings: wisdom and compassion. The development of the courageous compassion of the bodhisattvas is the point of the path to enlightenment, but in order to be effective we must first put ourselves together: develop the wisdom wing.
In other words, we first need to go beyond our limited sense of self by understanding karma – realizing that we’re the creators of our own reality and not just victims of external forces – and delving deeply into our own mind and lessening attachment, anger and the rest and growing our virtue and goodness.
Then we can see start to realize that we’re all in the same boat: we all suffer for the same reasons and have all got the same marvellous potential, so how can we not have compassion for everyone?
The great bodhisattvas are fierce in their determination to never give up on sentient beings: they “think in terms of eons,” as His Holiness the Dalai Lama says.
Ven. Robina shares a bit about her life
Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.
Further Sessions over the weekend
Ven. Robina will be teaching at Jamyang Leeds through out the weekend, commencing Thursday 16 through to Sunday 19th October. She will be delving deeper into the same topic on Friday and Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm, and Sunday 10:00-12:30pm - please join us for lunch in our cafe each of the days!
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.

FPMT IDMT Discussion Group – Year 2 Term 2
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Last Sunday monthly
TIME: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: For In Depth Meditation Training students only
This discussion groups kindly led by Ruth, meets on the last Sunday monthly for students of the In Depth Meditation Training (IDMT) course to explore the topics of the course together.
If you are an IDMT student either at Jamyang Leeds or any of the other host centres and would like to join please ask our Spiritual Programme Coordinator for the zoom link by emailing spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
If you are not yet an IDMT student and would like to know more about the course, you can find out more on our In Depth Meditation Training page here.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83466951221
Meeting ID: 834 6695 1221

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Discovering Buddhism
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Thursday’s weekly 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Intermediate students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

Discovering Buddhism-Meditation Day
Overview of Programme
DATE: 2025: 18th September, 25th September, 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and meditiation day 25th October.
TIME: Saturday 25th October Meditation day - 9:00am-3:00pm
LOCATION: In Person and Online
LEVEL: Students of Buddhism and those interested in Buddhist philosophy
We are delighted to announce that Geshe Rinchen, a highly respected scholar and teacher, will be leading the next module of the Discovering Buddhism programme at Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. This module, titled Wisdom of Emptiness, will take place on six Tuesday evenings, beginning 18th September 2025. It is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your understanding of the Buddhist path and to integrate meaningful practices into your daily life.
The module concludes with a dedicated day of meditation on Saturday 25th October, offering students the opportunity to deepen their understanding through personal reflection and guided practice
The realization of emptiness is crucial for the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. Teacher Geshe Rinchen gives a clear and concise presentation on this very difficult topic and introduces various methods to meditate on emptiness that are indispensable for generating realizations within the mind
What to Expect in This Module
Deepen your understanding of the ultimate nature of reality with The Wisdom of Emptiness Module.
This module explores the profound teachings on emptiness as taught by the Buddha – the key to breaking the cycle of suffering and achieving liberation. Through:
Guided meditation
Analytical inquiry
Accessible commentary
Supportive Environment: Engage in discussions and reflections with like-minded individuals, supported by the teachings of Geshe Rinchen.
Practical Tips: Discover ways to overcome common challenges and make your practice consistent and meaningful.
You can begin to experience how understanding emptiness transforms perception and brings genuine inner freedom. Suitable for both new and experienced students ready to delve into the heart of wisdom.
Join Us
Classes will be held weekly Online through Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds. To register, visit Registration Link
We warmly invite you to join us for this enriching journey with Geshe Rinchen. Together, let us explore how to bring the timeless wisdom of Buddhism into our everyday lives. 3pm, for this module it is on 12 April. If you can’t join the meditation days in person, you will be able to join them online if you wish to do so.
For more information contact our course coordinator, Ruth: db@jamyangleeds.co.uk
ABOUT YOUR Teacher: Geshe Rinchen Wangyal
We are delighted to say that Geshe Rinchen (Geshe La) has kindly agreed to be our resident teacher from January 2025. Many of you will already have met him as he volunteered with us teaching at the centre through the Summer of 2024. He has also led Vipassana meditation since Autumn 2023 on Monday mornings online. As well as kindly teaching online during the time he was studying at Winchester.
Geshe La has many skills. He is a teacher, translator, researcher and Editor. He studied at Drepung Losel Ling Monstaery in India, then Institute of Buddhist Dialectics gaining his Geshe Degree in 2015. Since 2021 he has studied at the University of Winchester, UK, gaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. He has had articles published in “The Scientific American” in 2020 including ‘Hygiene of Hand and Mind During the Pandemic’ and translations and original articles published in Tibet Times and Tibet Express. He has also won Awards and Honors include awards for essay competitions at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and Certificate honoring translation work at Emory-Tibet Science Summer Workshop 2019-2020. Geshe La was born in Tibet so Tibetan is his mother tongue. He teaches fluently in English.
SUGGESTED DONATION:
Non-members – £60 per half term (6 weeks) for the Thursday classes. and £25 for the meditation day (approximately every 6 weeks). This will contribute to the centre’s running costs and include a donation to the teacher.
Free to members of The Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds (your membership fees already contribute to our core costs in running the centre). You are invited to make a donation for the teacher, as is customary when receiving Buddhist teachings, in order to support their activity (for your reference we recommend a donation in the region of £20 per half term and £10 per meditation day).
We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial ferasons. If you cannot donate the suggested amount, please donate where possible within your means. It’s good to practice generosity where we can.
Or you can do a bank transfer using the details below, please also label the reference as “General Fund”
Bank Transfer: Account Name: Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
Bank Name: Cooperative Bank Plc
Account number: 65178087
Sort-Code: 08-92-99
SWIFT: CPBK GB22
IBAN: GB76 CPBK 0892 9965 1780 87
Gift Aid: if you are a UK taxpayer we can claim back 25p for every £1 you donate. More information on Gift Aid can be found here. If you could email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk and share your house number and postcode we will be able to claim giftaid on your behalf.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Lama Choepa (Guru Puja) and Tsog
Overview of Session
DATES: 4th August 11am; 2nd September 12:30pm; 2nd October 11am; 14th November 12:30pm; 14th December 11am
TIME: 90 minute sessions, start time varies
LOCATION: In Person
LEVEL: Buddhist Ceremonies – All Welcome
Dedicated to the Swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a bright unmistaken child.
During the practice of Lama Choepa, we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realizations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere, heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of this precious lineage and quickly actualize the realizations we need to attain enlightenment. If we wish to experience realisations quickly, the practice of Lama Choepa is indispensable.
“If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily life, it contains all the important points of sutra and tantra. It is a complete practice, and it shows the heart of the instruction of Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition. Even if one can’t do much else in daily life, Guru Puja is the essential practice.”
Open to all Buddhists, no empowerments needed.
Please arrive early and bring flowers, incense, vegetarian food and drink as offerings for the altar.
More information can also be found on this FPMT page.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

FPMT in-Depth Meditation Training
Overview of SESSION
DATE: 2025: Year 3 - Term 1 runs from Sept. 6 to Nov. 29, 2025 (total 13 classes).
Term 2: Feb. 7 - April 4, 2026 (9 classes),
Term 3: April 18 to July 4, 2026 (12 classes).
If you are starting as a new student in year 3, don’t worry. You will get some preparatory advice on what previous recordings to have a listen to.
TIME: Saturdays weekly 2:30pm – 5pm UK time
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – Intermediate to Advanced
IDMT Year Three: The Radiant Ground: Emptiness and Buddha Nature
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
Guiding us in this exploration will be core texts from India and Tibet. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā will serve as a central pillar, systematically dismantling the illusions of inherent existence. In dialogue with this, we’ll study Kamalashīla’s Stages of Meditation, a practical and accessible map for cultivating deep meditative insight grounded in the view of emptiness.
Balancing the radical freedom of Madhyamaka, we will encounter the warmth and encouragement of Maitreya’s Ratnagotravibhāga, a poetic illumination of the Buddha-nature within all beings. These teachings remind us that beyond confusion and conditioning, there is a basic goodness that has never been lost.
To ground these profound insights in daily life, we will also study the beloved text of Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, The Seven Points of Mind Training. With its pithy slogans and deeply practical tone, it offers tools for transforming adversity and cultivating bodhicitta on and off the cushion.
Throughout the year, our study and practice will be enriched by meditative teachings from both the Pāli and Sanskrit sūtra traditions, inviting a direct and experiential understanding of emptiness—not as a concept, but as a liberating shift in perception.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
RECOMMENDED DONATION: £45 per calendar month, Reduced income donation £31 per calendar month, Sponsor donation £58 per calendar month. There are also options donate annually or per teaching month (8 times a year) . Please note: We are unable to offer this course as part of our Jamyang Leeds membership programme as it is a collaboration with other FPMT centres. If the recommend donations aren’t affordable right now, please do get in touch and we can agree what would be. We never turn anyone away from the Dharma for financial reasons. Of course it’s good to practice generosity where you can.
This four-year online course provides students with long term, in-depth support in their meditative development. We will continue to take new starters onto the course indefinitely.
The teacher is Venerable Losang Gendun who is also our FPMT Basic Programme teacher. Venerable Gendun has trained extensively in meditation in both Theravada and Mahayana Traditions
We are delighted that from March 2025 the course is within the FPMT’s In Depth Education curriculum. You can find out more about FPMT education courses and programs here.
The In Depth Meditation Training course is also part of The Buddha Project led by Venerable Losang Gendun. You can find out more about the course, who it is suitable for, The Buddha Project and Venerable Gendun on our FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training page.
If you have any questions you would like to ask before registering please email our Spiritual Programme Coordination Team on spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Please click here if you would like to register
The zoom link and all materials for the course are provided to registered students.

FPMT IDMT Discussion Group – Year 2 Term 2
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Last Sunday monthly
TIME: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: For In Depth Meditation Training students only
This discussion groups kindly led by Ruth, meets on the last Sunday monthly for students of the In Depth Meditation Training (IDMT) course to explore the topics of the course together.
If you are an IDMT student either at Jamyang Leeds or any of the other host centres and would like to join please ask our Spiritual Programme Coordinator for the zoom link by emailing spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk
If you are not yet an IDMT student and would like to know more about the course, you can find out more on our In Depth Meditation Training page here.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83466951221
Meeting ID: 834 6695 1221

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Lama Choepa (Guru Puja) and Tsog
Overview of Session
DATES: 4th August 11am; 2nd September 12:30pm; 2nd October 11am; 14th November 12:30pm; 14th December 11am
TIME: 90 minute sessions, start time varies
LOCATION: In Person
LEVEL: Buddhist Ceremonies – All Welcome
Dedicated to the Swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a bright unmistaken child.
During the practice of Lama Choepa, we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realizations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere, heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of this precious lineage and quickly actualize the realizations we need to attain enlightenment. If we wish to experience realisations quickly, the practice of Lama Choepa is indispensable.
“If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily life, it contains all the important points of sutra and tantra. It is a complete practice, and it shows the heart of the instruction of Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition. Even if one can’t do much else in daily life, Guru Puja is the essential practice.”
Open to all Buddhists, no empowerments needed.
Please arrive early and bring flowers, incense, vegetarian food and drink as offerings for the altar.
More information can also be found on this FPMT page.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for September 2025 to December 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions:
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly.
Practices 2025:

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

FPMT Basic Programme
Overview of SESSION
DATES: September 6th and 7th, October 25th and 26th, November 15th and 16th and in 2026: February 7th and 8th, March 21st and 22nd, April 25th and 26th.
TIMES: Saturdays 9 am to 12:30pm. Sundays 9 am to 3:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Studies – Intermediate to Advanced
Next Module: The teachings are on The Stages of The Path (Lam Rim)
The celebrated system of teachings known as the Stages of the Path (lamrim) represents a synthesis of the entire path to enlightenment. Presented in a clear and concise form, these teachings are easy to understand and apply in meditation. Instruction begins with the preliminary practices, and then progresses through the essential practices of the ‘beings of the three scopes’, including correct guru devotion, renunciation, the altruistic wish for enlightenment and the view of the middle way. As a foundation and context for Buddhist practice, this subject is a key element of the FPMT Basic Program. Text: Je Tsongkhapa, Middling Exposition of the Stages of the Path
While applications from brand new students have closed, if you have previously studied the FPMT Basic Programme it may still be possible to join. Also it may also be possible to come along as a listener. If you would like to do so please contact our Basic Programme Coordinator Chrissie on bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
Donation: Recommended donation £50 per teaching weekend or membership of Jamyang Leeds Membership Programme £30 per calendar month
Lam Rim retreat - May to July 2026
There will be a three month Lam Rim retreat in May to July led by Venerable Gendun at Institut Vajra Yogini in France.
For regular Basic Programme students there is a requirement as part of the programme to attend 3 months Lam Rim retreat, preferably in one go, but also a combination such as 3 x 1 month or 2 x 6 weeks are acceptable.
For Home Study Basic Programme students there is a requirement to attend a 1 month Lam Rim retreat as part of the programme.
For Listeners there is no requirement to attend the Lam Rim retreat but you are very welcome to do so. The minimum time on retreat would be two weeks.
Registration for the Lam Rim Retreat is expected to start in September 2025 at Institut Vajra Yogini, France. Early booking is highly recommended.

From Lamp to Light: A Lamrim Journey - A one month Lamrim retreat at IVY, Summer 2026
Location: Institut Vajra Yogini, Marzens, France
Eligibility: Open to anyone familiar with the Lamrim, especially students of the FPMT Basic Program
Dates: 1 – 28 June 2026
Guide: Ven. Losang Gendun
Participation: You are welcome to join for a minimum of two consecutive weeks at an point during the retreat. Arrival and departure should be scheduled for weekends.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Je Tsongkhapa stands as one of the most celebrated and comprehensive presentations of the Buddha’s teachings. Synthesizing the 84,000 methods taught by the Buddha into a clear and practical step-by-step path, this masterpiece continues the profound lineage of the Indian master Atisha and represents the pinnacle of the Lamrim tradition.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, a true heir of this profound Tibetan heritage, repeatedly emphasized that for the Dharma to truly take root in the West, it must be embodied — not just studied. Practitioners must cultivate deep, experiential realizations of the Lamrim.
In service of that vision, we warmly invite dedicated practitioners — particularly those with a strong grounding in the Lamrim and FPMT Basic Program students — to join our month-long guided Lamrim retreat. This is a rare opportunity to integrate the stages of the path, supported by experienced guidance, structured daily practice, and a community of sincere fellow practitioners.
Throughout the retreat, Venerable Losang Gendun will offer in-depth Sunday commentaries on the Calm Abiding and Special Insight chapters of Je Tsongkhapa’s Middle-Length Lamrim, providing essential context and clarity to support deeper contemplation.:
If you are interested please contact Chrissie our FPMT Basic Program Coordinator at: bp@jamyangleeds.co.uk
To learn more about the Vajra Yogini Institute, visit their website here.
Daily Schedule:
TOPICS COVERED:
RESOURCES:
• Geshe Rabten’s Essential Nectar is a classic and provides an excellent overview of the various Lamrim meditations and their arguments. A must have for this retreat. You can buy your copy here.
• Yangsi Rinpoche’s Practicing the Path provides a concise and contemporary commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo. A copy you can find here.
• Kathleen Mcdonald’s How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path is a great introduction to meditating on the Lamrim for those who are less familiar with this type of practice. For a copy, go here.
• Je Tsongkhapa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment is the very basis of this retreat. Digital and paper copies of the three volumes you can find here.
• Geshe Lhundub Sopa’s Steps on the Path to Enlightenment is the most extensive modern commentary on the Lamrim and is highly recommended. A copy you can obtain from this page.
• Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Lamrim Teachings from Kopan are guides by a true bodhisattva and have been published in seven volumes that you can find hereand for free here. Moreover, Rinpoche wrote extensively on the Six Perfections, copies of which books you can obtain here.

16 Guidelines - MediTation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Prayers to stop war
Overview of Session
DATE: First Monday of the month
TIME: 7:30am-8:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In 2022, after the war in Ukraine started, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice on prayers and practices to do in order to pacify the threats of war. All are welcome to download the booklet, Prayers to Stop War.
At the time, Lama Zopa Rinpoche also gave advice for how to motivate and think when doing these prayers and practices:
At the beginning generate strong bodhicitta, then do these prayers and practices to stop the war. The main purpose is to stop the war immediately. Then also to prevent famine, disease, and all the dangers of earth, water, fire, and wind, for all these dangers to be pacified immediately. To fill the whole world with perfect peace and happiness, including enlightenment, and to generate loving kindness, compassion and bodhicitta in the heart of all sentient beings.
Think that from Guru Padmasambhava’s heart, beams radiate and totally purify all the six realms’ sentient beings, totally purify all the delusions and negative karmas collected from beginningless rebirths, especially anger, attachment, and ignorance; think that these are totally purified. Then recite Sampa Lhundrupma, followed by the Padmasambhava mantra (one or two malas).
With strong faith in Guru Padmasambhava and total reliance, Guru Padmasambhava will definitely help because his compassion embraces all sentient beings.
Then another way to think is, with strong faith in His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the aspect of Guru Padmasambhava, nectar beams are emitted to all leaders of war, entering the body and totally purifying all negative karma and obscurations; all the dissatisfied mind, desire, ignorance, anger, and selfish mind are totally purified; they generate bodhicitta especially, and then the whole path to enlightenment. Do that very strongly, making strong prayers to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Then nectar beams are also emitted to all involved, and these purify all the anger and self-cherishing thought. They generate bodhicitta, and stop giving harm to even one sentient being and only benefit sentient beings, up to enlightenment.
Then recite the Heart Sutra and the prayer to stop wars.
For those who can do the Most Secret Hayagriva sadhana, do this at the beginning of the practice. When reciting the mantra, you can do the same visualizations as above.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice in 2022 to IMI Sangha on prayers and practices they could do in response to the developing war in Ukraine. The above motivation was edited slightly to be more general in order to be relevant for current threats at any time. The original advice can be read here. Please download Prayers to Stop War .

Lama Choepa (Guru Puja) and Tsog
Overview of Session
DATES: 4th August 11am; 2nd September 12:30pm; 2nd October 11am; 14th November 12:30pm; 14th December 11am
TIME: 90 minute sessions, start time varies
LOCATION: In Person
LEVEL: Buddhist Ceremonies – All Welcome
Dedicated to the Swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a bright unmistaken child.
During the practice of Lama Choepa, we invoke all the lamas of the graduated path lineage, beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, extending to our present direct teachers who have shown us the path. We pay homage to them, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless our minds with the same realizations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere, heartfelt requests, we make our minds ripe to receive the full blessings of this precious lineage and quickly actualize the realizations we need to attain enlightenment. If we wish to experience realisations quickly, the practice of Lama Choepa is indispensable.
“If you are able to do the practice of Guru Puja in your daily life, it contains all the important points of sutra and tantra. It is a complete practice, and it shows the heart of the instruction of Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition. Even if one can’t do much else in daily life, Guru Puja is the essential practice.”
Open to all Buddhists, no empowerments needed.
Please arrive early and bring flowers, incense, vegetarian food and drink as offerings for the altar.
More information can also be found on this FPMT page.

16 Guidelines - Medidation series
Overview of 16 GUIDELINES
DATE & TIME: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm (online) and Sunday 10:30-11:30(in-person)
LOCATION: Zoom on wednesday and in-person on Sundays
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: Generosity model - please donate as you feel affordable and as generous as is manageable
The 16 Guidelines are simple steps for a happier life, inspired His Holiness by the Dalai Lama. They teach us to manage our thoughts, actions, and connections positively. They revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just personal joy but a better world for all.
The 16 Guidelines are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
Session overview:
Welcome, Introduction and Motivation 5 mins
Settling Meditation 10 mins
Meditation topic introduced then participants briefly share their experience 15 mins
Guided meditation 15 mins
Feedback from participants 10 mins
Closing and Dedication 5 mins
In Person 10:30am-11:30am with 30minutes coffee catch up after
Sunday dates in August with themes:
3rd Aug - Humility
10th Aug - Patience
17th Aug - Contentment
24th Aug - Delight
31st Aug - Kindness
Online 7:00-8:00pm:
Wednesday Dates in August with themes:
6th Aug - Humility
13th Aug - Patience
20th Aug - Contentment
27th Aug - Delight

Children’s Mindfulness (6-12 years old)
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Saturday’s monthly
TIME: 10:30 – 11:45am (there is also an earlier session for 4 to 5 year olds on the same day)
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – Children 6 to 12 years old
COST: Click below to donate, or donate on the day in centre (suggested donation $5)
Monthly Children’s Mindfulness Sessions at Jamyang Buddhist Center Overview:
We are delighted to offer monthly mindfulness sessions designed for children at the Jamyang Buddhist Center. These sessions are a wonderful opportunity for children to learn mindfulness techniques, explore creativity, and practice yoga in a fun and engaging way.
Session Breakdown:
For 6 to 12-year-olds:
The second session, held on a Saturday each month, is for children ages 6 to 12. This session will run from 10:45 am to 11:30 am and will focus on more age-appropriate mindfulness practices, including mindful movement, arts and crafts, and guided meditations.
For 4 to 5-year-olds:
The first session of each month is specifically designed for children ages 4 to 5. This session will be held from 10:00 am to 10:30 am and is tailored to introduce young children to mindfulness through simple practices, gentle yoga, and fun activities.
Upcoming Themes & Dates:
Mindful Movement and Yoga
5 April, 5 July, 4 October
Mindful Arts and Crafts
3 May, 2 August, 1 November
Mindful Parenting Session (with parents)
31 May, 6 September, 29 November
Booking Information:
To reserve your spot for these monthly sessions, please send an email to:
childrensyoga.yogime@gmail.com
We look forward to welcoming you and your child to our mindfulness sessions at the Jamyang Buddhist Center!

Children’s Mindfulness (4-5 years)
Overview of SESSION
DATE: Saturday’s monthly
TIME: 10:00 – 10:30am (there is also a later session for 6 to 12 year olds on the same day)
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – Children 4 to 5 years old
COST: Click below to donate, or donate on the day in centre (suggested donation $5)
Monthly Children’s Mindfulness Sessions at Jamyang Buddhist Center Overview:
We are delighted to offer monthly mindfulness sessions designed for children at the Jamyang Buddhist Center. These sessions are a wonderful opportunity for children to learn mindfulness techniques, explore creativity, and practice yoga in a fun and engaging way.
Session Breakdown:
For 4 to 5-year-olds:
The first session of each month is specifically designed for children ages 4 to 5. This session will be held from 10:00 am to 10:30 am and is tailored to introduce young children to mindfulness through simple practices, gentle yoga, and fun activities.
For 6 to 12-year-olds:
The second session, held on a Saturday each month, is for children ages 6 to 12. This session will run from 10:45 am to 11:30 am and will focus on more age-appropriate mindfulness practices, including mindful movement, arts and crafts, and guided meditations.
Upcoming Themes & Dates:
Mindful Movement and Yoga
5 April, 5 July, 4 October
Mindful Arts and Crafts
3 May, 2 August, 1 November
Mindful Parenting Session (with parents)
31 May, 6 September, 29 November
Booking Information:
To reserve your spot for these monthly sessions, please send an email to:
childrensyoga.yogime@gmail.com
We look forward to welcoming you and your child to our mindfulness sessions at the Jamyang Buddhist Center!

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.

Kalachakra Practice group
Overview of practice
This is a restricted group for those who have received the Kalachakra empowerment from a qualified Lama. To join the group you need to have either received the full Kalachakra empowerment or another High Yoga Tantra empowerment such as Heruka, as long as you have received a Kalachakra Jenang (permission).
This international group of Kalachakra practitioners meets weekly and alternates with commentary and practice.
Here is the timetable for April 2025 to July 2025 with Mind Mandala once a month and six session guru yoga for other sessions.
03/04 Ellen
10/04 Jo
17/04 Linda
24/04 Sue (Mind Mandala)
01/05 No practice due to event at Jamyang
08/05 Lindsey
15/05 Andy Teaching
22/05 Jo
29/05 Sue (Mind Mandala)
05/06 Ellen
12/06 No practice due to event at Land of Joy
19/06 Linda
26/06 Sue (Mind Mandala)
03/07 Ellen
10/07 Jo
17/07 Andy Teaching
24/07 Lindsey
31/07 Sue (Mind Mandala)
If you’d like to join us, please email spc@jamyangleeds.co.uk confirming that you have the appropriate empowerments. You will then be sent a registration form to complete.
If you’re already part of this group, just click on the buttons below and enter the passcode you were sent by email.

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Chanting the Verses of Noble manjushri
Overview of Session
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:45am to 8:25 am
LOCATION: Zoom only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – suitable for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s students
Join us to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and chant the Names of Noble Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Please come along even if you havent done the practice before, its quite wonderful and very energising. Please download the text below, you can also listen and practice with the audio clip of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri.

Yin Yoga with Amy
Overview of Session
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 6pm-7pm
LOCATION: In-person
LEVEL: Wellbeing – All levels
COST: £8
Yin Yoga is for everyone, including beginners and those of you who think ‘I can’t do Yoga’. Its focus is on community and on giving more of us the opportunity to move, stretch and relax. You don’t need a yoga mat or any equipment – just wear comfortable clothing.
£8 per session. Drop in and pay by cash or card on the day

the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Overview of the eight verses of thoughts transformation
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices- All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta – Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind
Led by Di and Chrissie
This practice is based on the short text” Eight Verses of Thought Transformation”, which contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative bodhichitta (i.e., the wish to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) and absolute bodhichitta (i.e., the wisdom realizing emptiness).

Vajrasattva Practice
Overview of The Vajrasattva Practice
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 8:30pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Purification here means looking at our past unskillful actions which have created seeds of negative karma in our minds, and using visualisation and mantra recitation to remove those seeds in a healthy and productive way. Vajrasattva is the embodiment of all the Buddha’s cleaning and purifying energy. We all make mistakes, and how we deal with them is key to making spiritual progress. We’ll be using a short text composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Medicine Buddha Puja
Overview of Medicine Buddha Puja
Medicine Buddha is one of the practices recommended by the FPMT for students to do for the swift return of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 5.30 pm to approx 6.45 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
This is a longer meditation on Medicine Buddha – to remove obstacles, esp. those relating to health and achieving a favourable rebirth, and activate a swift path to enlightenment.
As Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “One of the best healing meditations is that on the Medicine Buddha, who is the manifestation of the healing energy of all enlightened beings.”
The puja involves chanting prayers to the Seven Medicine Buddhas and reciting the Medicine Buddha mantras.
It is kindly led by Lindsey and Sande

Kshitigarbha Practice
Overview of Kshitigarbha practice
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays
TIME: 12pm-12:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom only Thursday. Zoom and in Person on Tuesdays
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Lama Zopa Rinpoche (our organisation’s Spiritual Director) suggested Jamyang Leeds perform these practices to help with the financial obstacles we are currently having. From September 2022, we’ll be reciting this practice as much as we can. See the special newsletter explaining all about the practice here.

Tonglen Loving Kindness meditation Practice
Overview of Tonglen Meditation
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion.
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Meditation – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
A beautiful practice led by Chrissie and Di.
The Buddhist practice of Giving & Taking (Tonglen in Tibetan) is at its heart a selfless meditation of loving kindness and compassion. You imagine giving all your happiness to others, sometimes using visualisation with the breath, and then taking all the suffering and its causes from others. It’s a powerful practice for the brave-hearted!

Tara Puja for World Peace
Overview of Session
DATE: 2025: Last Monday monthly with a break in August. The May session will be held on the 19th and December the 15th.
TIME: 5pm-6pm
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £6
Tara Puja dedicated to world peace is held on a monthly basis.
Led by Venerable Thubten Tenzin January to April and Ondy Willson June to December
Please join us, occasionally or regularly, at 17.00 UK time to show our support for the courageous spiritual communities both in Ukraine & Russia and also in Israel and Gaza. May we all nurture compassion & peace in the face of destruction & violence.
By coming together like this we send a powerful message that comes from the depths of our being. We value peace, harmony and the enlightened qualities we aspire to embody, as generated in the 21 Taras Sadhana.
By the power of our merit may there be a non-violent and bloodless revolution of consciousness so that enlightened democracies based on social wellbeing flourish everywhere.
Please forward this invitation to anyone who you think may be interested in this free and beneficial session.
Tenzin will translate into Russian for Russian and Ukrainian students. The puja will last approximately 45 minutes to include some guidance on harnessing the positive power of the prayers in generating the particular qualities of compassion and fearlessness.
Ondy Willson, a touring FPMT teacher since 2007, has students in Russia & Ukraine, so felt particularly moved to offer these pujas both to connect with & support those who are suffering on the front line. So these pujas have provided, not just an opportunity to deal with fear and pray for peace, but to meet directly together as a global community and interact with our Ukrainian and Russian dharma friends. At the end of one week’s puja, participants in Ukraine & Russia shared their stories & experiences, which was very moving for us all to hear.

Yamantaka Practice Group
Overview of SESSION
This is a restricted practice, for those who have received the empowerment to practice Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka.
If you have an interest in joining the group please email yamantakagroup@gmail.com to register.
The Yamantaka practice is held on the Mondays weekly. The schedule for the coming weeks is below, please note that it doesnt always alternate weekly:
Practices 2025:
26/05 14:30
02/06 14:30
09/06 18:00
16/06 (LP) 14:30
23/06 14:30
30/06 18:00
07/07 14:30
14/07 (LP) 14:30
21/07 18:00
28/07 14:30

Lunchtime Meditation
Overview
Make the most of your lunchtime with a guided meditation session to help calm your mind. These secular meditation sessions are a great way to relax and create some space for reflection in the middle of your day.
DATE: Monday- Friday
TIME: 12:30pm-1pm
LOCATION: In-person and Zoom (Tuesdays & Fridays) & Zoom Only (Monday-Friday)
LEVEL: Wellbeing Programme – All levels

CHOKHOR DUCHEN
Overview of session:
DATE: Monday
TIME: 10:30-11:45am
LOCATION: Online or in-person in centre
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Chokhor Duchen is one of the four major days of the Buddhist calendar, and celebrates the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma by Buddha Shakyamuni. Shakyamuni Buddha turned the wheel of Dharma for the first time at Sarnath in his teaching on the Four Noble Truths.
Practices for this special day inlcude:
Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels, Chanting the Names of Manjushri for the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche as a bright unmistaken child and a Tonglen Meditation. Please find the practice sheets below:

Morning Prayers
Overview
Start the day by joining us for Morning Prayers recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and HH Dalai Lama, for the benefit of all sentient beings and the swift return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Everyone is welcome.
DATE: Monday – Friday all year around
TIME: 8am-8:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – All Welcome

White Umbrella Deity practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
In September 2024, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche gave us this practice to overcome obstacles to the centre flourishing.
In addition to many benefits of engaging in these practices, Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended that these two practices are beneficial to helping bring peace to situation between Israel and Palestine.
The Sanskrit name for the White Umbrella deity is Ushnisha Sitatapatra which can also be translated as “The Victorious White Parasol.” The White Umbrella Deity, [Skt. Sitatapatra, Tib. gdugs dkar] is a powerful female deity. She is relied upon for protection; healing illness; dispelling interferences, spirit possession, and harmful forces; quelling disasters; averting obstacles; and bringing auspiciousness.
Ushnisha Sitatapatra is a female form of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Like this Bodhisattva in an elaborate form, she also has a thousand eyes that watch over living beings, and a thousand arms that protect and assist them. Thus she symbolizes the power of active compassion.
Practices of Arya Sitatapatra includes, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.”

White Dzambhala practice
Overview of practice
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 11 am to 11:30 am
LOCATION: Please note this is online only
LEVEL: Buddhist Practices – see note below
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune and luck, long life and wisdom.
Please come and join in with this weekly practice to help the centre, the FPMT and Buddha Dharma to flourish and be free from obstacles.
To do this practice in full, it is best to have a Kriya tantra empowerment of Chenrezig. However, one may still do this practice without such an empowerment by simply skipping the
self-generation on page 3. The Torma Offering on page 15 requires empowerment
Dzambhala is an emanation of Ratnasambhava, one of the five buddha families, whose enlightened activity is increasing and whose essence is generosity. Some people practice Dzambhala to
achieve spiritual prosperity, although this deity is also associated with wealth and prosperity in the material world. Dzambhala practice is said to bring wealth, prosperity, success, good fortune
and luck, long life and wisdom. He is depicted holding a mongoose spouting jewels.
There are five different wealth Dzambhala, each has their own practice and mantra to help eliminate poverty and create financial stability.
Through the power of compassionate intention, visualization, and mantra recitation, as well as a wealth-stimulating ritual, this practice ripens and enhances our karma for an abundance of
resources. When done with single-pointed concentration and faith, this ritual easily increases one’s financial prosperity.

Shamatha – Meditation on the Breath
Overview of Session
DATE: Fridays
TIME: 7am-7:30am
LOCATION: Zoom
LEVEL: All Welcome
SUGGESTED DONATION: £3
Led by Ruth
Mindfulness of Breathing is universally acknowledged to be of benefit to all living in the modern world. Many feel overloaded with all that is expected of us living this complex and exhausting existence. Developing our awareness in this way is a general prescription for soothing and healing the overworked body and mind.
Practicing focusing the attention on an object such as the breath is also a core practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Gradually over time we are able to hold the object of our attention over longer periods, which enables us to practice other meditations such as Vipassana more successfully.