“Do virtuous actions as much as possible.
Avoid negative actions as much as possible.
Totally tame your own mind.
This is the teaching of the Lord Buddha.”
- The Buddha

Courses 2025

UPCOMING COURSES 2025

UPCOMING COURSES 2025

Developing Our Meditation Practice (Parts 1-10)

Sun 9th February - Sun 22nd June 2025
(two Sundays / month)

This 10-part teaching series taught on two Sunday evenings / month (Feb - June) explores our meditation practice more in depth. Lama Rabsang covers in these teaching sessions different aspects from the motivation, to the surroundings, posture and the practice itself like mindfulness, awareness, stability, effort and relaxation, object vs. objectless meditation, as well as how to deal with emotions & thoughts. See the dates & topics for each Sunday HERE.

Teacher: Choje Lama Rabsang
Donation: £10 / £8 through PayPal

Understanding the Concept of Selflessness in Buddhism

During this course day Lama Rabsang will teach about the buddhist view on selflessness, what it means, how it can be understood correctly and how it can be practiced in meditation and in our everyday life. The day includes meditation & teachings. One can attend the course day in-person or through Zoom. Please register to attend, whether you are attending in person / Zoom.

Teacher: Choje Lama Rabsang
Donation: £30 / £25 incl. lunch (£20 online)

Saturday 8th March
10am-3pm

Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche: Kuntuzangpo Aspiration Prayer

Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche started teaching the Aspiration Prayer of Kuntuzangpo in 2019 at Palpung Wales, and she continues on thsi same topic this year. This prayer is a Dzogchen aspiration prayer, which gives meditation instructions about the ground, path and fruition. It explains the ground for beings going astray from their pure nature, and it explains the methods of liberation; how the defilements (kleshas, five negative emotions) are liberated into wisdom.

Teacher: Her Eminence Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche (see her bio HERE)
Donations & Registration: Please see HERE

Sat 24th - Sun 25th May
10am-4pm

Venerable Chamtrul Rinpoche:
The Union of Compassion and Emptiness

Chamtrul Rinpoche will visit Palpung Wales again this year and will give a weekend teaching on the topic of Union of Compassion and Emptiness. In Mahayana Buddhism, wisdom and compassion are considered the two wings of enlightenment, and their union is the path to complete Buddhahood. Without wisdom, compassion is well-meaning but blind, and without compassion, wisdom is a question of function of intellect and has no direction, so one cannot do without the other.

Teacher: Venerable Chamtrul Rinpoche (see his bio HERE)
Donations & Registration: Please see HERE

Sat 12th - Sun 13th July
10am-4pm

Discovering the Buddha Within

Level 3: Original Purity

Thursday 18th - Sunday 21st September 2025

  • Please make every effort to attend the full four days, as this is a transmission from a teacher to student, so it is important to be present in person. 

    Meditations connected with Buddha nature, which is the basis of Vajrayana, the last of Buddha's teachings, will allow students to discover their enlightened nature, the primordial purity of the mind and the universe, and to experience pure perception of everyone and everything.

  • In this level students will learn:

    1. Discover the primordial purity of their own mind and the universe

    • By discovering through advanced insight their own buddha nature and the original purity of everything.

    2. Learn how to reveal that purity

    • By appreciating and developing gratitude for one's own enlightened mind, by meditating on guru yoga, and by learning about creation and completion stage meditations according to the Vajrayana.

  • To be eligible for this second year, you must have either:

    1. attended the Year 1 & 2 in person (anywhere in the world)

    2. or completed the 50 hours of homework for Joy of Living 1

    3. or being a Mahamudra Ocean of Definitive Meaning student by His Holiness Tai Situ Rinpoche.

  • For those new to Buddhism, the practice commitment is to practice at least 10 minutes every day for a minimum of 30 consecutive days. For those who are already practicing the Buddha Dharma, their actual practice will work as the commitment.

  • During the year, there will be follow-up meetings with the Centre's resident teacher, Choje Lama Rabsang, so you will have an opportunity to ask questions, get clarification and support for your practice.

  • SUGGESTED DONATIONS

    The below donation options cover four days of teachings with or without lunches. Please choose according to your capacity.

    £190 Standard with 4 lunches
    £150 Standard (NO lunches)

    £140 Concession 1 with 4 lunches
    £110 Concession 1 (NO lunches)

    £130 Concession 2 with 4 lunches
    £90 Concession 2 (NO lunches)

    If you cannot afford the suggested donations, please contact the office palpungukoffice@gmail.com.

  • Teacher for the course will be Sherabling Monastery’s Shedra senior teacher, Venerable Khenpo Phurba Wangchuk.

    The resident teacher who will look after the follow-up meetings, answer the questions through the year and provide ongoing support, will be Choje Lama Rabsang.

There may be video and still photography taken during the courses and events. Images from the events may be used in the Centre's publicity (newsletter / website / Facebook). If you do not wish to have your image used, please contact the Centre manager palpungukoffice@gmail.com.