Nechung Dharmapala Center

Nechung Dharmapala Center Center PERMANENTLY CLOSED. Nechung Dharmapala Center (NDC) in West Hollywood opened its doors on December 10, 2014. The inaugura

The Venerable Thupten Ngodup, the Medium (Kuten) of Nechung, the Chief State Oracle of Tibet, visited Los Angeles in 2007 and 2009. He gave teachings and blessings at various venues and private homes. It was at one of these gatherings in 2009 when an attendee inspired by the Nechung Kuten’s message of kindness and altruism, spontaneously offered to contribute a substantial donation to establish a

center for these studies. He felt that such a center would be of great benefit in the Los Angeles area. In 2010, the Nechung Kuten (Kutenla) founded Nechung Dharmapala Center (NDC) in Los Angeles. Kutenla envisioned the center to be a place where local Tibetans, Mongolians, and Westerners could study and practice Buddhism in a non-sectarian way. NDC is dedicated to promoting the culture and wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for people from all walks of life. It took several years to find a suitable site to house the center. Finally in 2013, NDC purchased a property in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, close to West Hollywood. It had many great features – a sizable room for meditation and classes, high ceilings, rooms for resident monks, visiting lamas and guests, and sufficient street parking. It took a year to refashion the house into a Tibetan style building, construct the shrine, and install the Buddha statues and sacred texts. Nechung Dharmapala Center opened in December, 2014. The Venerable Thupten Ngodup and monks from Nechung Monastery inaugurated the new center. Kutenla and the Nechung monks visited again in 2015 and 2016; on each occasion, he gave teachings & blessings, and conducted prayer sessions and rituals. Geshe Sonam Dakpa, NDC’s resident teacher leads daily practice and giving weekend teachings, as well as performing special prayers during specific days in the Tibetan lunar month. The weekly, monthly and yearly schedules will be posted on NDC’s website.

03/01/2024

March month teachings are cancelled. Geshe la is in an important retreat. Both Tara puja and classes will resume in April.

Please join us this Saturday from 9am to 11am as we resume the virtual teaching series on Bodhicaryavatra: Way of the Bo...
02/20/2024

Please join us this Saturday from 9am to 11am as we resume the virtual teaching series on Bodhicaryavatra: Way of the Bodhisattva. We will go through the Chapter 1: Benefits of Bodhichita, the excellent awakened mind.

Join us on the 7th December, Thursday for Lama Tsongkhapa Anniversary puja.
12/06/2023

Join us on the 7th December, Thursday for Lama Tsongkhapa Anniversary puja.

Join us this Saturday for our new teaching series on Bodhicaryavara - Entering the Path of Boddhisattva. This Saturday’s...
11/17/2023

Join us this Saturday for our new teaching series on Bodhicaryavara - Entering the Path of Boddhisattva. This Saturday’s teaching will be Geshe Sonam’s last in-person teaching at the center as he is going back to India permanently after kindly teaching us for the last two years. Come to say farewell and pay respect if you can.

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra, the Sublime Continuum, Gyud-Lama.
11/03/2023

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra, the Sublime Continuum, Gyud-Lama.

༄༅། །ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༣ ཟླ་བ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༤ རེས་གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ལྷ་བབ་དུས་ཆེན་གྱི་ཉིན་མོར་ཕྱི་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༤ པའི་ཐོག་ཨེལ་ཨེ་(L.A)གནས...
11/01/2023

༄༅། །ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༣ ཟླ་བ་ ༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་ ༤ རེས་གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ལྷ་བབ་དུས་ཆེན་གྱི་ཉིན་མོར་ཕྱི་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༤ པའི་ཐོག་ཨེལ་ཨེ་(L.A)གནས་ཆུང་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་ཚོགས་མཆོད་དང་། རང་མོས་ཞལ་ལག་(pot-luck ) བཅས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རིམ་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་ཏུ་ཨེལ་ཨེ་(L.A)གནས་ཆུང་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ནས་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ལ།

Please join us for Lhabab Duchen (Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa) heaven celebration on 4th November 2023 at 4pm Guru Yoga Puja and pot-luck food/snacks.

We are resuming the Sundays Tara Puja - སྒྲོལ་ཆོག་. Come join us this Sunday and every Sunday to practice Tara puja.
10/24/2023

We are resuming the Sundays Tara Puja - སྒྲོལ་ཆོག་. Come join us this Sunday and every Sunday to practice Tara puja.

We are open for In-Person teachings. Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra/Gyud-lama.
10/24/2023

We are open for In-Person teachings. Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra/Gyud-lama.

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra-Gyud Lama.
10/20/2023

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra-Gyud Lama.

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra.
10/13/2023

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra.

Join us this Saturday for our weekend teaching.
10/07/2023

Join us this Saturday for our weekend teaching.

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra Shastra, the Gyud Lama. Topic: Qualities of Buddha Nature.
09/29/2023

Join us this weekend for teachings on Uttaratantra Shastra, the Gyud Lama. Topic: Qualities of Buddha Nature.

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515 N. Crescent Heights Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90048

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