Manjushri Dharma Center

Student-facilitated Saturday Morning Meditation
2025-03-22 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
We will have student-facilitated meditation each Saturday that Rinpoche is away in March. There is no better way to honor our teacher than to practice! The MDC will be open from 10-11 for silent meditation. Come and create some good energy collectively! (No Zoom for this month, however, in-person only.)

Singapore Amitabha Retreat
2025-03-23 | online event, CA, United States
No further details but will keep Sangha posted if we can join via Zoom.

Hosted at:
Kagyu Monlam Singapore
6B Lorong 7 Geylang, Level 3
Singapore 388790

TEACHING SCHEDULE & Zoom Link TBD

No Monday Night Chanted Prayers
2025-03-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-31 18:30 - 20:00 | CA
While Rinpoche is traveling, we will not be hosting Monday night chanted prayers. Rinpoche will be returning the week of April 1st, and we will quickly set the schedule for April. Monday night chanted prayers will resume on April 7th.
Tashi Delek!

Malaysia Teaching & Meditation
2025-03-29 | CA
No further details but will keep all posted!

CANCELED: No Saturday Morning Meditation
2025-03-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
So sorry for the short notice, but due to illness, our volunteer is not available for Saturday morning meditation on March 29th, 2025. We anticipate Rinpoche returning on Tuesday, April 1, and hope he will be able to host meditation on April 5th.

Posted at 9:30am on Saturday, March 29th.

Rinpoche Returns Home--Kata Ceremony ~ 7-9pm
2025-04-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Ven. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche
We have details! Rinpoche will land in Monterey at 8pm on Tuesday, April 1st. It’s suggested that you come to the Manjushri Dharma Center by 7pm and plan to wait until 9pm–as due to travel, Rinpoche may be home early or late. We will welcome Rinpoche home with a traditional kata ceremony (white silk scarf used to show respect). Katas provided. Offerings of flowers for the altar or healthy food (Rinpoche is diabetic) for his fridge is welcome!
Rinpoche will be very tired, so after we welcome him home, we will depart quickly and let him rest. Please remember to let him rest this coming week, and honor the “monk’s office hours” and not contact him prior to 12pm PT if possible. (He uses the mornings for his personal practice).
We will all be together on Saturday, April 5th for meditation–hope to see you there!

Saturday Morning Meditation
2025-04-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-31 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-07 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Meditation is a helpful way to relax the body and calm the mind, and it can help us connect to timeless, deep inner peace. Join us Saturday mornings as Rinpoche gives a brief teaching followed by silent meditation practice. After meditation, enjoy some tea with Rinpoche and talking together. A donation of $10.00 per class is requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Saturday morning meditation is held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

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Upcoming Events will be Announced Soon!
2025-04-06 18:30 - 20:00 | CA
Rinpoche is home from his wonderful trip to New York, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, and we will be connecting with him soon to plan the calendar for the coming months. Be patient with us as we let dear Rinpoche rest!

No Monday Night Chanted Prayers
2025-04-07 18:30 - 20:00 | CA
Rinpoche is still experiencing jet lag and fatigue, so Monday, April 7th, 2025 chanted prayer practice is cancelled. We will send a note over email regarding the upcoming Saturday meditation. Please continue to allow Rinpoche his space to rest. Thank you Sangha!
Tashi Delek!

No Saturday Morning Meditation
2025-04-12 10:00 - 11:00 | CA
There will not be meditation practice on Saturday, April 12th, 2025. Rinpoche continues to need rest and to take care of his health. We wish him good health and long life!
Please get on our mailing list( if you are not already) to receive updates by email.
Thank you sangha!

No Monday Night Chanted Prayers
2025-04-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
There will be no chanted prayer practice on Monday, April 14th, 2025.
Rinpoche continues to need rest and to take care of his health. We wish him good health and long life!
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Thank you sangha!

Confirmed! Saturday Morning Meditation
2025-04-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
4-16-25 update: Rinpoche has been a very patient patient, and his energy is returning day by day. Thank you sangha for all your prayers! We will hold regular meditation this Saturday, April 19th from 10am to 11am Pacific Time, both in person and on Zoom.
If you have the time, we would love some help pulling weeds at the Dharma Center after meditation this Saturday, 4/19/25, 11am to 1pm! Every little bit of help helps!
Thank you Sangha!

Meditation is a helpful way to relax the body and calm the mind, and it can help us connect to timeless, deep inner peace. Join us Saturday mornings as Rinpoche gives a brief teaching followed by silent meditation practice. After meditation, enjoy some tea with Rinpoche and talking together. A donation of $10.00 per class is requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Saturday morning meditation is held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

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Garden Volunteer Day
2025-04-19 11:00 - 13:00 | CA
Calling all volunteers! We are hosting “Garden Volunteer Day #5: Weeding with Warm Hearts” 🙂 Many hands make light work and we will focus on the happy weeds springing up after the rains. Don’t worry, they will spring up elsewhere! We can help balance their immense success allowing our flowers more room to grow. Our last garden volunteer day was in January before Rinpoche’s travel, so there is much to do! If you can lend even 15 minutes (or an hour, or two) after meditation on Saturday, April 19th, 2025, you will make a monk happy! Thanks to all volunteers of the past, present, and future!
We will supply: coffee/tea/goodies and a few garden tools
You should supply: your own garden gloves, tools you like, etc.
Many thanks and hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Rachel at rachelichristo@gmail.com or 831-277-0529

Japa Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche Remembrance Day--Guru Yoga Practice
2025-04-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Please join us April 21st at 6:00PM for a Puja in remembrance of the 24th anniversary of the Parinirvana of Khenpo Karten’s Root Guru, Japa Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche. We will practice a very precious sadhana, “The Guru Practice, Rain of Blessings,” composed by Khenpo Karten and containing the “Prayer to Japa Sangye Tenzin” composed by the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinle Dorje.

“Even Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche’s name is very wonderful. ‘Sang’ means clearing, the clearing of adventitious mental afflictions and their imprints. ‘Gye’ means increase, the increase of realized qualities such as compassion and wisdom realizing emptiness. His first name, ‘Sang-gye’ means ‘Buddha’, the same name as Buddha, himself. ‘Ten’, means Teachings, the Teachings of Lord Buddha. ‘Tzin’ means to hold, to uphold. In short, his name means that he is a holder, a protector, of Lord Buddha’s Teachings. He was a special Guru who was really endowed with the meaning of what his name implies. We are all disciples of the same compassionate Guru. Don’t think that you have never met my Guru, that you have never received initiation, teachings, or transmissions from him. You are my disciples. He is my root Guru. We are like one family. If you have faith and devotion he definitely extends his compassion to you and watches over you.”

~Khenpo Karten Rinpoche

Texts:

The main sadhana text can be downloaded here: The Guru Practice, Rain of Blessings.
༄༅། །དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མ་དྲན་པའི་གདུང་དབྱངས་ས་མཐའི་རྒྱང་འབོད་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །
Calling Afar from the Border Regions: A Song of Heartfelt Devotion in Commemoration of My Glorious Guru, Sangyé Tenzin Rinpoche
Prayer for World Peace-Tibetan and English

More about Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche: Sangye Tenzin spent 21 years in Chinese prison, yet he transformed the experience into pure spiritual food, and left the prison with only good wishes for his captors. He was truly a Buddha appearing in this world. To learn more about Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche: “Medicine for the Mind: On Using Suffering and Obstacles for Mental Development.” or read about how Sangye Tenzin came to Khenpo Karten Rinpoche in his dreams by reading “The Appearance of my Root Guru in a Dream.”
Monday night prayers are held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

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Monday Night Chanted Prayers--Chenrezig Practice
2025-04-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig in Tibetan, is the Bodhisattva who embodies the love and compassion of all Buddhas. Chenrezig is an important deity* in Tibet and considered the patron Bodhisattva of the Tibetan people. Chenrezig is also believed by Tibetans to be the actual progenitor of the Tibetan people. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa are considered living Buddhas, emanations of Chenrezig. It is said that in Tibet even babies upon birth know the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.
Chanted prayers are an important part of spiritual life, regardless of where you are at on the path. They allow us to still our minds, connect with the blessings of the Buddhas, and purify negative karma. With these prayers we transform ourselves and our world into pure beings and pure lands, free from suffering, and connect with the energies of love and compassion. Appropriate for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. Prayer books provided. Donations are not expected, but always welcome.
Monday night prayers are held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

Please do join us for this profound practice. Tashi Delek!

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*The word deity in Buddhist context is not the same as in the west. A deity may have many meanings, but one meaning is the timeless energies that are also within us, rather than all-knowing beings outside ourselves.

Monday Night Chanted Prayers-Green Tara Practice
2025-05-05 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
The feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, Green Tara is the swift liberator, a compassionate and loving protector in times of distress and great danger. Through meditating on the form and mantra Arya Tara, and chanting the Praises to her 21 different manifestations, we receive the blessings to become inseparable from Tara herself, actualizing the potential to liberate all sentient beings from the suffering ocean of samsara. She is known as the Mother of all Buddhas, born from Chenrezig’s tear of compassion (in one of many origin stories). She will swiftly come to comfort and protect those who supplicate her, she gives protection from emotional and physical sufferings. In her hands she holds utpala flowers which symbolize power and pure compassionate intention.
“This is also my daily practice,” writes Rinpoche. “We will pray for overcoming fear and clearing of obstacles. We will recite the mantra “OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA “. You can see me and recite the mantra at the same time so we can practice together for those who have recently died. Thank you and Tashi Delek.”
Prayers will be recited in both Tibetan and English.
Texts:

We have a NEW text from 1/6/24, the same one used for our recent Green Tara empowerment. NEW translation/text of the Green Tara Sadhana of Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
Supplemental texts:

Concise Tara Prayer by Lama Gephel
GreenTara-Sevenfold Supplication by Drikung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgon
YouTube video of the Sevenfold Supplication prayer sung by Phub zam with beautiful imagery

Description of the Tara practice above was written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche. Image courtesy of Miles McBreen.
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Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Amitabha Practice
2025-05-12 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Buddha Amitabha is the Buddha of Infinite Light.
Here is a link to the main text (in Tibetan, English, and Chinese): The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.

Chanted prayers are an important part of spiritual life, regardless of where you are at on the path. They allow us to still our minds, connect with the blessings of the Buddhas, and purify negative karma. With these prayers we transform ourselves and our world into pure beings and pure lands, free from suffering, and connect with the energies of love and compassion. Appropriate for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. Prayer books provided/shown on screen. Donations are not expected, but always welcome

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Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Medicine Buddha
2025-05-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Medicine Buddha is the Buddha of Infinite Healing, creating the causes for a world that is healed from illness and disease, both of the body and of the mind.

Texts
You can find a link to the prayer text here: MedicineBuddhaPuja_༄༅།-།སྨན་བླའི་སྒྲུབས་ཐབས་བཞུགས་སོ།-།.pdf
Rinpoche wrote a very short but beautiful teaching on the practice of Medicine Buddha, which includes the visualization: Medicine Buddha Practice for Corona Virus from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche.
Additionally we typically recite a short Buddha Amitabha (the Buddha of Infinite Light) mantra: Om Ami Dewa Hri. Here is the text for Buddha Amitabha: The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.
Please join us as we wish for all beings to have health and peace of mind.
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Monday Night Chanted Prayers--Chenrezig Practice & Karma Shawa Remembrance Day
2025-05-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
This Monday night is a special combination of chanted prayers and remembering Khenpo Karten Rinpoche’s Dharma son, a little deer named Karma Shawa. 2025 marks three years since his passing.
Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig in Tibetan, is the Bodhisattva who embodies the love and compassion of all Buddhas. Chenrezig is an important deity* in Tibet and considered the patron Bodhisattva of the Tibetan people. Chenrezig is also believed by Tibetans to be the actual progenitor of the Tibetan people. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa are considered living Buddhas, emanations of Chenrezig. It is said that in Tibet even babies upon birth know the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.

Chenrezig Text:
https://manjushridharmacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ChenrezigPracticeText.pdf

About Karma Shawa
There was/is a deep karmic connection between Rinpoche and the deer named Karma Shawa. Rinpoche wrote about it in his blog, “Who was Karma Shawa? ཀརྨ་ཤྭ་བ། “, and he was interviewed in the Monterey County Weekly, “The story of a Pacific Grove Tibetan monk and his fawn friend.“

Monday night prayers are held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

Please do join us for this profound practice. Tashi Delek!

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*The word deity in Buddhist context is not the same as in the west. A deity may have many meanings, but one meaning is the timeless energies that are also within us, rather than all-knowing beings outside ourselves.

Monday Night Chanted Prayers - Medicine Buddha & Special Saga Dawa Prayers
2025-06-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Medicine Buddha is the Buddha of Infinite Healing, creating the causes for a world that is healed from illness and disease, both of the body and of the mind.

Texts
You can find a link to the prayer text here: MedicineBuddhaPuja_༄༅།-།སྨན་བླའི་སྒྲུབས་ཐབས་བཞུགས་སོ།-།.pdf
Rinpoche wrote a very short but beautiful teaching on the practice of Medicine Buddha, which includes the visualization: Medicine Buddha Practice for Corona Virus from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche.
Additionally we typically recite a short Buddha Amitabha (the Buddha of Infinite Light) mantra: Om Ami Dewa Hri. Here is the text for Buddha Amitabha: The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.
Also, we will practice honoring Buddha Shakyamuni, as part of Saga Dawa (Saga Dawa Duchen Full Moon day is June 11th) . We will use the text written by by Mipham Rinpoche called “Treasury of Blessings.”
Learn more: What is Saga Dawa?
Text: Treasury of Blessings: A Practice of Buddha Shakyamuni
Monday night prayers are held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

Please do join us for this profound practice. Tashi Delek!

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All-Sangha Meeting 2025
2025-06-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Annual All-Sangha Meeting
Saturday, June 14, 2025
11:00am Pacific Time (after meditation)
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Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Every year, the spiritual community of the Manjushri Dharma Center comes together to reflect on the past year, envision the year ahead, and confirm our Board Members for the next term. Join us after meditation on Saturday, June 14th to hear a brief overview of the state of center and goals for the future.

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Summer Solstice Blessing of the Waters 2025
2025-06-20 18:00 - 18:30 | Lover’s Point Beach, 17th St and Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Friday June 20th, 2025 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. For many years now, at both summer and winter solstices, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche offers a Blessing of the Waters, by reciting two prayers that he composed, Propitiating the Devas of the Four Elements and the Prayer for World Peace.We now have a new prayer book with many other prayers as well. This year, we will meet again in person at Lover’s Point Beach. We will gather in community and send our good energy to the ocean, to all the waters of the world, and to all of nature and humanity. Attendees are asked to bring flower petals/flowers for the offering.
Because this practice is on the beach, there is no opportunity for us to also broadcast online (as far as known).
This practice may also be done by any person in they place they live. Practitioners may download these prayers to recite at the beach, by a river, or wherever you choose outside in nature. Bring some flowers to offer and send your good energy and wishes for healing to the waters of the world, all the elements of nature, and all sentient beings.
Here is an “instruction on how to practice” the Blessing of the Waters, composed by Rinpoche and Pema Tsultrim/Aaron (past MDC President) with more information on how to conduct a “do-it-yourself” Blessing of the Waters ceremony. Instructions on Blessing the Waters
Tashi Delek!
Prayer for World Peace
Through roots of goodness of us all on this vast earth,
May all living creatures become full of
love and compassion,
So that all enjoy peace on earth!
Stop bad intentions, thoughts and deeds
of all those who terrorize others,
That all living beings on this earth
come together like one family!
May all be well, have long life and health
with bliss of mind, free of illusion.
May all mothers have oceans of bliss
of body, for now, and ultimately of mind.
May this lamp of wisdom love, oneness,
highest remedy to clear darkness,
Enter the hearts of all living beings,
so their perfect path be illumined!

Footnote to Prayer for World Peace: In the name of all religions on earth, as I see and hear of increasingly many unwarranted harmful actions being enacted, thinking, with a joyful, universal aspiration, how wonderful it would be if all such activities ceased entirely. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, on 2-4-2015, on Wednesday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s auspicious day, wrote this dedication prayer to be recited at the conclusion of other prayers, meditation, or practices.
Images: Header is from 2020 summer solstice, photographer unknown, same for first of the three combined photos–last two are from 2017 summer solstice, photographer Bill Cox.
