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Center Cherishing Day
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesCleaning Practice at the Temple. Come and join us as we prepare for the Northwest Dharma Celebration Feb 28 - March 1.
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Coeur D' Alene - Library Talk
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesMeditation 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, […]
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Powa Ceremony: Special Prayers for the Recently Deceased
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesBeautiful 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.
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Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesSpecial offerings and prayers made to receive the important help, blessings and protection of the enlightened Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. Everyone welcome.
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Northwest Dharma Celebration
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesBlessing 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 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 […]
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Northwest Dharma Celebration Introduction
FeaturedKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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Long Protector Prayers
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesAn epic traditional 3.5-hour chanted practice with offerings, which connects us to powerful enlightened Dharma Protectors who support our spiritual progress and the welfare of the entire world. Everyone welcome.
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Sunday Morning Meditation Class: Meditations for World Peace
Featured Sunday Morning Meditation ClassesKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesGenerate authentic hope and happiness every Sunday morning at Kadampa Meditation Center Washington! Join us for our classes on building world peace one peaceful mind at a time, learning Buddha’s special methods of loving kindness. In these classes we will be exploring teachings from the book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness, written by the […]
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Tara Prayers
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesReceive 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.
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Dakini Yoga (HYT Empowerment Required)
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesFor those with Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini, we offer Dakini Yoga, the self-generation meditation practice of Vajrayogini.
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Monday Evening Meditation Class: How to Overcome Anger & Negativity with Buddhist Meditation
Featured Monday Evening Meditation ClassesKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesHow 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 to identify and control the negative trains of thought that lead to anger, and how to take our life in a wiser and happier direction.
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Morning Prostrations: Purifying Negativity
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 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.
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Offering to the Spiritual Guide
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesBeautiful traditional chanted prayers and offerings to become close to and receive the powerful blessings of our Spiritual Guide. This preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra is at the very heart of Kadampa Buddhist practice of the union of Sutra and Tantra. Everyone welcome.
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Intro: Refuge Retreat
Featured Teacher Training ProgramKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesIntro: Refuge Retreat 7:00 pm - 8:30pm Participants are encouraged to attend the introductory talk for this retreat. Instructions and reading materials will be available at each session. Everyone is welcome!
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Heart Jewel with Lamrim Meditation
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe 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.
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In-Depth Study: Foundation Program
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesFoundation 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. Joining a structured study program of Buddha’s teachings brings great benefits: developing a good heart, improving wisdom, and enhancing cherishing of others all come from […]
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Thursday Evening Meditation Class: Meditation Made Easy
Featured Thursday Evening Meditation ClassesKadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn 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!



















