Gaden Shartse Dro-Phen Ling - GSDPL

08/06/2026

Yesterday marked the completion of our 10th Heart Sutra Weekend Retreat at GSDPL. 🙏✨ Over this beautiful Vesak & Saka Dawa weekend, 91 of us came together to slow down a little from our usual pace of life — to reflect, pray, and spend some quiet time with the Heart Sutra.

In particular, we also rejoice for the 23 friends who participated in the Heart Sutra retreat for the first time. Wonderful rejoice! We hope you all enjoyed your first experience. 🥰🙏🏻💕

For those who are keen to join in next year's Heart Sutra Retreat, pls pre-register here: https://bit.ly/preregister-HeartSutraRetreat-11
The Heart Sutra is a very short text, but it is a very powerful practice to help us overcome obstacles, plant in us the seed of wisdom, and help us connect closer and closer to Buddha Shakyamuni.

For some, this retreat have brought peace. And for some, it simply felt good to sit in a quiet space and take a breather from our demanding lives. For others, the retreat may have brought more questions, especially as we reflect more deeply.

All of this is wonderful. 🙏🏻💕

Dharma is not about suddenly becoming calm or “having everything figured out.” Dharma actually empowers us with the wisdom to respond in a constructive way when we meet with daily struggles. More often, it slowly helps us create a bit more space in the mind and heart — so that when difficulties come, we suffer a little less, react a little less - this is an outcome that is both beneficial for ourselves and all around us.

To everyone who joined us this weekend — thank you sincerely for your presence, openness, and practice. And also a big thank you to all our volunteers and supporters who helped make the retreat possible behind the scenes. 🥰🙏🏻💛

Thank you everyone for making this retreat so meaningful. 🙏✨

As we conclude the retreat, we hope everyone leaves not thinking “It’s over,” but feeling that maybe something meaningful has quietly started inside. 🙏🏻 The real practice of the Heart Sutra begins after we go home. Jiayou! See you all again very soon! 😍🙏🏻💕
For friends who are keen to join us for our year end retreat and pilgrimage to Gaden Shartse Monastery, please check the details here: https://www.drophenling.com/events/gsm-pilgrimage2026/

07/06/2026

A retreat is not only built by prayers — it is also built by the sincerity, focus, and effort of every single participant who shows up wholeheartedly. 🙏✨

Over these two days, it was so moving to witness everyone in retreat -- chanting, meditating in visualisations, reflecting quietly, and putting genuine effort into the Heart Sutra practice.

These photos capture not just a retreat, but many individuals taking time away from their busy lives to pause, look inward, and reconnect with something deeper within themselves.

Thank you to all participants for creating such a beautiful collective energy throughout the weekend. May the seeds of wisdom and compassion continue to grow quietly in all our hearts. 🙏💛
一场闭关，不只是由法会与念诵组成，更是由每一位全心投入参与者的真诚、专注与用心共同成就的。🙏✨

在这两天里，看见大家在闭关中认真念诵、专注观想、安静思维，并真诚努力地投入《心经》的修持，真的非常令人感动。

这一组照片所记录的，不只是一次闭关，更是一群人在繁忙生活中，愿意暂时停下脚步，向内看看自己，重新与内心更深处连接的过程。

感恩所有参与者在整个周末共同成就了如此美好的共修能量。愿智慧与慈悲的种子，继续在大家心中静静成长。🙏💛

06/06/2026

About last night 🥰🙏🏻❤️ The monks were so joyful to do the set up of chairs and tables for our meal break and rest in between the retreat sessions. They expressed great joy and admiration to see so many people serious and engaged in the weekend retreat 🥰🙏🏻 and wished to do their best to host everyone comfortably in the centre. So warm and beautiful! 🥰🥰🙏🏻🎶

Meanwhile we also had fun packing and prepping breakfast buns for all our friends and hope you will enjoy a nice simple breakfast that will fuel your good practice today! 😍❤️ Jiayou all friends!

06/06/2026

A most auspicious beginning to GSDPL's 10th Annual Heart Sutra Weekend Retreat this afternoon. Every year we organize our Heart Sutra Retreat in the holiest, blessed Vesak weekend. 🥰🙏🏻❤️

We were deeply privileged to have 9 Sangha members lead the Guru Puja & Tsog, invoking blessings for a smooth and successful retreat. This was followed by the Gegtor offering to pacify and dispel all demonic forces and hindrances. We also received inner offerings to purify body, speech, and mind, preparing us to receive all blessings fully and effectively.

To mark the start of our practice, the Sangha then bestowed the three blessings: blessing of the retreat cushion, retreat tongue, and retreat mala — each one a sacred vessel of blessings for our weekend retreat.

So inspired to see majority of our friends stay back beyond the official 5pm closing time to cover more ground of the retreat. So heartened by all the sincere efforts. ❤️🙏🏻💕 May all practitioners draw nearer to the Buddha's nature, realise emptiness, and swiftly and completely actualise the path — for the benefit of all sentient beings.

The retreat continues full-day tomorrow, and we rejoice wholeheartedly for every participant. May all be auspicious!

今日下午，GSDPL第十届《心经》周末闭关圆满开幕，殊胜吉祥。每年，我们都在最神圣、最殊胜吉祥的卫塞节周末举办《心经》闭关。🥰🙏🏻❤️

我们有幸恭请九位僧伽主持上师供及荟供，祈请加持，愿闭关顺利圆满。随后进行革托供，以息灭、驱散一切魔障与违缘。我们亦领受了内供，净化身、语、意三门，使我们能圆满有效地领纳一切加持。

为启建此次修行，僧伽慈悲赐予三种加持：座垫加持、语加持与念珠加持——皆为此次周末闭关中承载无量加持。

深受鼓舞！见到大多数道友在官方下午五时结束后仍留守，继续深入修习，令人倍感欢喜。一片至诚精进之心，令人动容。❤️🙏🏻💕 愿所有修行者日益趋近佛陀之境界，证悟空性，迅速圆满成就菩提道——为利益一切有情众生！

明日闭关将全天进行，我们由衷随喜每一位参与者的功德。愿一切吉祥圆满！

05/06/2026

GSDPL’s 10th Heart Sutra Weekend Retreat starts tomorrow! We are still in the holiest month, particularly Vesak week -- very excited and happy to organise this around this holy period every year. Rejoice to all who are able to participate! 🙏😍

Heartfelt thanks to the monks and volunteers who helped out in the retreat preps! We have 92 friends participating this year, overwhelming response! Rejoice to all of your great interest and determination to engage in the retreat, particularly 24 friends who are doing this for the first time!

Every chair and table is wiped and cleansed, the monks have also prepared the cushion seats with traditional kusha grass and sw****ka for auspicious symbolism. Thanks to the team who have carried out the prep work with so much meticulous attention and love in their hearts!

May all who engage in the Heart Sutra Retreat pacify all obstacles & difficulties. May we plant the seed to actualise wisdom-realising emptiness swiftly on the path, be liberated from suffering & achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings. Rejoice!

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As we are conducting Heart Sutra retreat this Vesak weekend, there will not be any Sat puja.

Pujas will resume next Sat 13th June, with the Three Deities Obstacle-Clearing + Three-Part Torma Puja by the 9 Sangha team. Click here to register: https://www.drophenling.com/events/3deities-3parttorma/

05/06/2026

This weekend we are having Heart Sutra Retreat Weekend! So we will resume Sat Puja next Sat on 13th June! 🙏🏻😍 To participate: https://www.drophenling.com/events/3deities-3parttorma/

The Three Deities Obstacle-Clearing Puja is a powerful Tibetan Buddhist protective ritual performed to clear obstacles, strengthen one’s energy and blessings, and protect against negative influences and unseen disturbances.

This puja combines the sacred practices of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni, the White Umbrella Goddess, and the Lion-Face Dakini — three profound deities renowned for purifying negative karma, overcoming spirit harm and obstacles, and subduing inauspicious conditions.

The Three-Part Torma Puja (Cha-Sum) is a quick swift ritual traditionally performed to avert obstacles, restore harmony, repay karmic debts, and pacify seen and unseen disturbances. “Three-Part” refers to the offering of three sacred tormas (ritual cakes), each dedicated towards resolving different forms of obstacles, harmful influences, karmic creditors, and obstructive forces.

Through prayers, visualisations, and ritual offerings, the puja helps transform negativity into favourable conditions, bringing greater peace, protection, healing, harmony, and spiritual support.

This Sat’s puja is especially recommended for those experiencing recurring misfortunes, sickness, conflicts, heavy energies, or persistent life obstacles. 🙏✨
这个周末是《心经》闭关周末！🥰🙏🏻 因此，本周六共修将暂停一次，并于6月13日（星期六）恢复举行！

报名参加：
https://www.drophenling.com/events/3deities-3parttorma/

“三本尊除障法会”是一项殊胜的藏传佛教护法仪轨，旨在帮助大众消除障碍、增强自身能量与福报，并保护我们免受负面影响及无形干扰。

此法会结合了释迦牟尼佛、白伞盖佛母及狮面空行母三大本尊的修持。这三种殊胜法门以净除恶业、化解鬼神障碍、降伏违缘及息灭不吉祥而闻名。

“三部朵玛法会”（Cha-Sum）则是一种快速而有力的传统仪轨，用于消灾除障、恢复和谐、偿还业债，并平息有形与无形众生所带来的干扰。“三部”指的是供养三种不同的朵玛（食子），分别用于化解不同类型的障碍、负面影响、业债及违缘力量。

透过祈请、观想及食子供养，此法会能帮助将负面因缘转化为顺缘，带来更多平安、护佑、疗愈、和谐及修行上的加持与支持。

特别推荐给近期面对反复不顺、疾病、冲突、能量低沉、或长期人生障碍的朋友参加。🙏✨

31/05/2026

A joyous finale to the blessed Vesak night 😍🙏🏻🥰❤️ Thank you dear friends for all of your participation and support! 💐😍🥳🌼🙏🏻 May all your wishes come to fruition. 愿今日所种之善因、皆成就圆满吉祥果！！！Happy Vesak Day! 🙏🏻❤️🌼

31/05/2026

It was such a beautiful Vesak & Saka Dawa evening with all of you earlier! Totally warm, joyful and lots of positive energy in the air 🥰🙏🏼❤️ Feeling honoured to be celebrating Vesak together with all of you! We are most certainly part of a privileged community to be connected strongly with the qualified teachers, noble Sangha and can celebrate Vesak in such a meaningful way. So beautiful! Let’s keep upholding the dharma and aspire to progress along the paths!

A big thanks also to our dedicated volunteers for all their work and ensuring everything went well so smoothly!

Next Sat 6th Jun, we will be having our Heart Sutra Weekend Retreat so there will not be any regular Sat Puja. But we will resume puja on 13th Jun (Sat) with Three Deities Obstacle-Clearing Puja + Three-Part Torma Puja with Substitute. Save the date and join in with the 9 Sangha for some swift pacification of negativity! 🥰🙏

The date for our First Kids Boot Camp has also been updated to 27th June (Sat)! For those who are keen in the 1-day kids camp (10am to 5pm), welcome to sign up here: https://www.drophenling.com/events/kidsbootcamp1/ 😍🥳🙏

31/05/2026

Happy Vesak Day and Saka Dawa! Welcome to join in this evening's puja event by 9 Sangha from Gaden Shartse Monastery. We are honoured to have our Guest of Honour, Mrs Goh Chok Tong grace this blessed annual event with us. This puja makes prayers for the flourishing of pure Buddhadharma, as well as for the good health and long life of Teachers and Sangha across all Buddhist lineages. May peace prevail, and may Buddhadharma continue to flourish and spread far and wide to benefit sentient beings now and in the future.

You may recite Buddha Shakyamuni's mantra during the puja:
Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Ye Soha

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31/05/2026