Regular teachings & events

Sundays 10.00 am - 11.30 pm

Sunday teachings are focussed on mindfulness and meditation, with Geshela introducing methods and reasoning to help you develop a meditation practice or strengthen your existing practice.

Tuesdays 7.00 - 8.30 pm

Tuesday teachings involve deeper study of the dharma. Refer to the home page and events calendar for more details.

Pujas

The word puja means "to please" and has the connotation to please through offerings and practice.

Once a month, going by the Tibetan calendar, either a Medicine or Tara puja, and a Guru Puja practice occur. Please go to the Events calendar for current  puja dates.

The Guru Puja lays the whole path to enlightenment on our mindstream, connects us more strongly to our teachers, and allows us to accumulate skies of merit and purifies eons of negative karma.

This is an important practice for all those who have taken initiations.

  • The Centre has moved to Teddington!

    Our new location is 554 Governors Bay–Teddington Road, in the same building as the Tibetan Kitchen and Lodge, near the end of Lyttelton Harbour.

  • Drop-in guided meditations, online teachings, & mindfulness practice

    Geshela is away for now, but until he returns you are invited to join Lin for your choice of a variety of activities on Sunday 17 November and Sunday 1 December. These will include guided meditations at the Centre at 9.30 (45 mins), online teachings at 10.30 am (1 hour), and mindfulness practice at 1.30 pm (1 hour). Please contact Lin at lin@livemindful.nz or the Centre at Christchurch.dhargyey@gmail.com for more information.

  • Are you looking for ways to support the Centre?

    If you can help support the Centre, the teachings, and Geshela’s care we would greatly appreciate your generosity. Please contact the Centre to be added to our email list and for details on how to make your donation.
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    There are also openings available on the PDDL board. We welcome new people to help us in our planning, actions, organising, decision making, creation and future of the Centre.
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    Please email your interest in participating and we will contact you with all the details about our next date of getting together.

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  • Auspicious dates & events: September and October pujas

    In the Tibetan tradition, certain evenings are dedicated to generating positive energy and actions (karma) by reciting special Tibetan prayers and mantras. Everyone is invited to participate.

    Friday 13th September @ 6.30pm GURU PUJA
    Friday 27th September @ 6.30pm MEDICINE BUDDHA
    Saturday 12th October @ 6.30pm GURU PUJA
    Please come and Join Geshela.