Please Note: When hosting courses by visiting teachers, we ask all participants to make a donation to help cover travel expenses and towards an offering for the visiting teacher. Please give what you can afford.

A weekend course on The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, an important Tibetan Buddhist text which contains key instructions for turning our practice into a path to liberation.

The main themes explained are how to deepen our commitment to our meditation practice, the cultivation of pure compassion and the journey to profound wisdom. The teachings include helpful instructions for maintaining a strong, daily meditation practice, the transformation of negative emotions and how to become of true benefit to others.

These teachings provide a grounding in some of the most essential points of Buddhist philosophy and practice, and are suitable for beginners and the more experienced, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

དྭགས་པོ་་ཆོས་བཞི་The Four Dharmas of Gampopa

༈ བློ་ཆོས་སུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །

lo chö su dro war chin gyi lop

Grant your blessing that my mind may turn to the Dharma.

ཆོས་ལམ་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །

lam du dro war chin gyi lop

Grant your blessing that the Dharma may become my path.

ལམ་འཁྲུལ་བ་ཞིག་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །

lam trul wa shyik par chin gyi lop

Grant your blessing that the path may clarify confusion.

འཁྲུལ་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སུ་འཆར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །

trulpa yeshé su char war chin gyi lop

Grant your blessing that confusion may dawn as wisdom.

Gelong Thubten took ordination as a monk in 1993 at Samye Ling Monastery and spent many years as personal assistant to Akong Tulku Rinpoche. Thubten has spent six years in intensive meditation retreats and now teaches meditation in numerous organisations such as the NHS, Google and at several universities. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling book, 'A Monk’s Guide to Happiness.' And ‘Handbook for Hard Times’

The £5 registration fee is not a payment for the course. There is no charge for our courses and teachings, but donations to help cover the costs of running the centre are very welcome.

When hosting courses by visiting teachers, we ask all participants to make a donation to help cover travel expenses and towards an offering for the visiting teacher. Please give what you can afford.