Join us for our Ballard Open House, coffee and FREE pancake breakfast from 8am-12 noon Drop-in to a 15-minute Guided Meditation at 9:30am, 10:30am and 11:30am Enjoy delicious pancakes, tour our beautiful meditation room and shrine, see the Kid's Class classroom, visit our bookstore and garden, and enjoy community
The essence of the practice is to take eight precepts and to keep them purely for a period of twenty-four hours. By doing this practice again and again, we acquaint ourself with the practice of moral discipline and thereby make our human life meaningful. We receive many great benefits from practicing moral discipline in this […]
In these Thursday evening classes we learn Buddhist meditation practices and understandings to grow our own joyful meditation practice and experience real inner peace. Everyone is welcome!
Cleaning Practice at the Temple. Come and join us as we prepare for the Northwest Dharma Celebration Feb 28 - March 1.
Meditation for Overcoming Painful Feelings Talk & Guided Meditation FREE EVENT With Kadam Trina Gunther, Buddhist Teacher. Join us for a free talk and guided meditation on how we can use Buddhist wisdom to overcome our painful feelings. When things go wrong, we can easily become overwhelmed by painful feelings that lead us to panic, […]
Beautiful and meaningful prayers to the Buddha of Compassion for those who have recently died. Includes the Buddhist meditation known as "transference of consciousness" for the deceased. Everyone welcome.
Special offerings and prayers made to receive the important help, blessings and protection of the enlightened Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. Everyone welcome.
Join us on weekday mornings for a 30-minute prostration practice that purifies our mind of negativity. Every weekday morning we engage in The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Moral Downfalls, a powerful practice that focuses on the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas to make our mind pure and clean.
For those with Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini, we offer Dakini Yoga, the self-generation meditation practice of Vajrayogini.
The Heart Jewel chanted prayer and meditation practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. It is used by many Kadampas as their main daily practice. Through this beautiful practice we can overcome obstacles to our meditation practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations.
Blessing Empowerment of Buddha White Tara Teachings on How to Swiftly Solve our Problems with the Wisdom of Subtle Impermanence with Gen Kelsang Gomlam Join us for our biggest gathering […]
Join us for our biggest gathering of the year, the 2026 Northwest Dharma Celebration! This year our Western National Spiritual Director and visiting Teacher Gen Kelsang Gomlam will grant the blessing empowerment of Buddha White Tara. An empowerment is a uniquely qualified guided meditation in which we receive special blessings into our mind. Gen Gomlam […]
The Children’s class includes singing a prayer, interactive teaching on keeping a peaceful mind and a loving heart, short meditation, and coloring or other activities. Children will be on the […]
Receive the help, blessings and protection of Buddha Green Tara, our enlightened mother, including prayers for the welfare and protection of the whole world. Everyone welcome.
Foundation Program is designed for those who wish to deepen their understanding and experience of Kadampa Buddhism through a systematic study of six texts by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. […]
How do we find happiness and peace in our everyday life? Largely by learning how to overcome our own anger and negativity. In this series, we learn the Buddhist method […]
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Member of the New Kadampa Tradition - International Kadampa Buddhist Union.
