Foundation Programme

What is the Foundation Programme?

There is an opportunity to study Buddha’s teachings in more detail on the Foundation Programme. This study programme is designed to help us deepen our practical understanding, through teachings, meditation, discussion, and memorisation. Also available by correspondence. We have two classes running at the Centre on Sundays and Wednesdays. If you are interested in joining either class, please contact us for more details.

Read an Introduction to the Foundation Programme by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

What are we studying on Sundays?
4pm - 9.30pm with a break for supper.

This inspiring book reveals essential methods for developing universal love and compassion, the source of true happiness for both self and others.

It gives a detailed and practical commentary to eight beautiful verses that comprise one of Buddhism's best-loved and most enduring teachings, Eight Verses of Training the Mind. Composed by the great Tibetan Bodhisattva, Langri Tangpa, this short poem shows how we can transform all life's difficulties into valuable spiritual insights.

For centuries, these liberating meditation practices have brought lasting peace, inspiration and serenity to countless people in the East.

Now, in this book, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso shares the immeasurably rich insight of this ancient wisdom with all those seeking lasting happiness and greater meaning in their modern lives.

Buy it here.

What are we studying on Wednesdays?
7.00pm - 9.30pm each Wednesday

We all have the potential for self-transformation, and a limitless capacity for the growth of good qualities, but to fulfil this potential we need to know what to do along every stage of our spiritual journey.

With this book, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso offers us step-by-step guidance on the meditation practices that will lead us to lasting inner peace and happiness.

With extraordinary clarity, he presents all Buddha’s teachings in the order in which they are to be practised, enriching his explanation with stories and illuminating analogies.

Following these practical instructions, we will come to experience for ourselves the joy that arises from making progress on a clear and structured path that leads to full enlightenment.

' This book is invaluable'
— WORLD RELIGIONS

Buy it here.

 

For further information:
please contact us on 01484 469652
or email info@vajrapanicentre.org