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  • Ocean Meditation Retreat 2026

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    Ocean Park Retreat Center 28511 Vernon Ave, Ocean Park, WA, United States

    Discovering a World of Kindness A blissful weekend at Ocean Park Retreat Center In this retreat, we’ll learn to recognize the incredible kindness we have received from others — from our mother of this life, from countless beings who provide for us, and from those who guide and inspire our spiritual growth. Through guided meditations […]

  • Compassion Fasting Retreat (Nyungnay)

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    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    During this 2-day retreat, we practice fasting, making prostrations, and offering chanted prayers to the protector of the world, the Buddha of Compassion Avalokiteshvara. This beautiful practice emphasizes compassion for all living beings and is a powerful way to purify negativity, pacify strong delusions, receive blessings, and increase our love, compassion, and Bodhichitta. You are […]

  • Precepts

    Precepts
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    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 […]

  • US National Festival 2026

    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    The Heart of Reality Prajnaparamita Empowerment & Teachings on the Heart Sutra with Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab This is an excerpt of the Heart Sutra, viewed to be the quintessence of Buddha's explanation of emptiness, or "ultimate truth". From one point of view, it is utterly simple and a bare revelation of the truth. From another […]

  • Offering to the Spiritual Guide

    Offering to the Spiritual Guide
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Beautiful 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.

  • Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog

    Wishfulfilling Jewel with Tsog
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Special offerings and prayers made to receive the important help, blessings and protection of the enlightened Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden. Everyone welcome.

  • Long Protector Prayers

    Long Protector Puja
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    An 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.

  • Sunday Morning Meditation Class: Meditations for World Peace

    Featured Sunday Morning Meditation Classes
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Generate 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 […]

  • Monday Evening Meditation Class: Solving Anger with Buddhist Wisdom

    Featured Monday Evening Meditation Classes
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    In this course we learn how to heal our painful tendency of anger with wisdom. Learning Buddha’s profound teachings on ultimate truth allows us to see our difficulties and our world with clarity and patient acceptance, healing our mind and uprooting the source of our suffering within. May 4 – Our interdependent nature May 11 […]

  • In-Depth Study: Foundation Program

    Foundation Program
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    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. 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 […]

  • Dakini Yoga (HYT Empowerment Required)

    Dakini Yoga
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    For those with Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini, we offer Dakini Yoga, the self-generation meditation practice of Vajrayogini.

  • Morning Prostrations: Purifying Negativity

    Prostrations (35 Confession Buddhas)
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    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.

  • Tara Prayers

    Tara Prayers
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    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.

  • Heart Jewel with Lamrim Meditation

    Heart Jewel
    Kadampa Meditation Center Washington 6556 24th ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    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.