Atisha Buddhist Centre

10/12/2026

Maintain the Ta***ic blessings from Summer Festival!

During this day retreat we will focus on reducing our distractions and gain experience of self-generation by engaging in the condensed HYT practice The Blissful Path.
Through the practice of the 3 Bringings we transform ourself from an ordinary person to an extraordinary person.

HYT practitioners welcome

10/12/2026

10/05/2026

During the Fall Festival 2026, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong will grant the empowerment of the Wisdom Buddha Je Tsongkhapa. She will also explain how to develop and improve our faith in our Spiritual Guide seen as one with Je Tsongkhapa, and on the practice of Migtsema, the special mantra and prayer of praise and request to Je Tsongkhapa.

09/29/2026

Dorje Shugden always helps, guides, and protects pure and faithful practitioners by granting blessings, increasing their wisdom, fulfilling their positive wishes and bestowing success on all their virtuous activities. This extensive sadhana - ritual prayers for spiritual attainments - is called ‘Kangso’ in Tibetan, which means ‘Fulfilling and Restoring Ritual’.

Usually performed once a month in Dharma Centres, it is used for fulfilling our heart commitment to practise Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra and to rely upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden, regarding him as inseparable from our Spiritual Guide and Buddha, and for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments we may have incurred.

Also included are Praise to Manjushri, the Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa, self-generation as Heruka, and the ritual for fulfilling and restoring our commitments with other Dharma Protectors.


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09/22/2026

Take a break from your busy, modern life with a few restful hours in peaceful silence. Disconnect from your devices and enjoy short teachings, four gently guided meditations, and breaks for silence, refreshments and contemplation.
Relax away from distractions and access the clarity of your heart-centered mind.

09/18/2026

Gen Thekchen introduces emptiness with disarming humor — looking at his audience and showing how the same people can appear as kind or horrible depending entirely on the mind’s projection. He reveals that spiritual practice is simply about reducing exaggeration and bringing our mind closer to reality.

https://kadampa.org/series/living-clarity

09/16/2026

Members of the Atisha Buddhist community will lead a daytime meditation each Thursday. Give yourself a break in the middle of the day. Everyone welcome. Class fee $5.

09/10/2026

Offering to the Spiritual Guide, or Lama Chopa in Tibetan, is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Ta**ra. It was compiled by the first Panchen Lama, Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, as a preliminary practice for Ta***ic Mahamudra. The main practice is meditation on reliance upon our Spiritual Guide, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path (Lamrim) and training the mind (Lojong), as well as both the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Ta**ra. By relying upon our Spiritual Guide as one with Je Tsongkhapa, our compassion, spiritual power, and especially our wisdom will naturally increase. A complete commentary to this practice can be found in Great Treasury of Merit.

09/02/2026

This fall we’ll have the opportunity to deepen our practice with our one-day puja retreats.

🔴Following the Summer Festival, we’ll have the opportunity to increase our experience of transforming ourself from an ordinary person to an extraordinary person by engaging in Blissful Path sadhana (HYT practitioners welcome)

🚑In November, Gen Chodor will grant the empowerment of Medicine Buddha at the Ontario Dharma Celebration at KMCC. The following Saturday’s one-day retreat at Atisha Buddhist Centre gives us the opportunity to receive special powers and blessings of body, speech and mind, which we can then use to help others through healing actions.

🙏Just in time for the holidays, December’s retreat focuses on the practice of cleansing our mind of all delusions and negativity by relying upon Vajrasattva, the Buddha of Purification.