Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre

23/12/2025

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐔𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟⁣
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All Buddhist practices are methods of transformation. When applied correctly, these can transform an ignorant person into a possessor of wisdom. The word transformation, as it is used here, signifies a change within an individual being that is a revolutionary change, but one that does not change that being’s essential nature. It brings out the essential nature. Buddhist practice is a process of transformation through purification that brings out the best of what is already there. It does not make people into what they are not, nor import any new material. It allows your ultimate identity as an enlightened being to emerge as you overcome the relative delusions and defilements that mask your buddha nature. It is transformation into your ultimate self.⁣
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From the book 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘢 by Guru Vajradhara the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. ⁣
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Just Dharma Quotes https://justdharma.org/transformation-into-your-ultimate-self-tai-situ-rinpoche/

Photo © Palpung Audio and Visual Archive (PAVA)

23/12/2025

We are delighted to host this great event on zoom Sunday 28th December 10.30am to 11.30am. All welcome to join . Just email palpungireland@gmail.com for the link!

13/12/2025

༄༅། །གཟིམ་དཔོན་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ཚེ་རིང་འདས་གྲོངས་ཕྱིན་པ།
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དཔལ་འབྱོར་ཚེ་རིང་ནི་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༨༣ ལོར་གདན་ས་དཔལ་སྤུངས་ཤེས་རབ་གླིང་དུ་ཆོས་སྒོར་ཞུགས། ཡི་གེ་འབྲི་ཀློག་ནས་བརྩམས་ཆོ་ག་ཕྱག་ལེན་གྱི་སློབ་སྦྱོང་དང་བཤད་གྲྭར་ལོ་ངོ་ལྔ་ཙམ་རིང་གཞུང་ལུགས་སློབ་གཉེར་བྱས། ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༩ ལོར་༸བྱམས་མགོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་མཆོག་གི་ཞབས་ཕྱིར་བསྐོ་གཞག་བྱས་ནས་བཟུང་འདས་པའི་མི་ལོ་ཉེར་དྲུག་གི་རིང་དད་དམ་ལྷག་བསམ་གཙང་མས་རྗེ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་འཁྲིས་སུ་གཟིམ་འགག་དང་གཟིམ་དཔོན་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཞབས་ཞུ་ལྷོད་མེད་བསྒྲུབས།
ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་འགོ་ཙམ་ནས་ཕོ་ནད་ལྗིད་པོ་ཞིག་ཕོག་སྟེ་ལྡི་ལིའི་ཚད་ལྡན་སྨན་ཁང་Apolloདུ་སྨན་དཔྱད་གཤག་བཅོས་བྱས་ནས་དྲག་སྐྱེད་ཅུང་ཙམ་བྱུང་ཡང་། མཐར་ནད་གཞི་ཕྱིར་འཁྲུགས་ཏེ་ཟླ་བ་གཉིས་ལྷག་སྨན་ཁང་དུ་གཏན་སྡོད་ཀྱིས་ཐབས་ཤེས་གང་དྲག་བྱས་ཀྱང་མ་ཕན་པར་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ ཚེས་ ༧ ཉིན་འདས་གྲོངས་གྱུར། འདས་པོ་ཁོ་རང་བསྟན་ལ་ལྷག་བསམ་དཀར་བ་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་ཚེ་རབས་གཏན་གྱི་སྐྱབས་གཅིག་༸བྱམས་མགོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ལ་དད་དམ་གཡོ་བ་མེད་པའི་ཉེར་ལེན་གྱིས་༧རྗེ་ཉིད་སྔ་ཕྱི་ལན་གྲངས་མང་པོར་སྨན་ཁང་དུ་ཆེད་ཕེབས་ཀྱིས་དབང་བཀའ་མན་ངག་དང་ཐུགས་སྨོན་མཚམས་སྦྱོར་གནང་བའི་མཐར།
ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༦ ཉིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་དབང་དང་ཐུགས་སྨོན་ལམ་སྟོན་མཛད་ཅིང་མཚན་མོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༡༢ ཙམ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཆེན་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་བྱམས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་བཅས་གསུང་སྐབས། ལག་གཡས་ཐལ་སྦྱར་གྱིས་སྨོན་ལམ་རྗེས་ཟློས་བྱེད་ཅིང་ལམ་སྟོན་ངོ་སྤྲོད་གང་གནང་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་མ་འཁྲུལ་བའི་ངང་ཉན་ནས། ལགས་སོ། ཞེས་པའི་ཞུ་ལན་དང་བཅས་ནམ་ཕྱེད་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༡ དང་པོའི་ཐོག་ཟུག་གཟེར་ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པར་ཞི་འཇམ་ལྷོད་པོའི་ངང་འདས་གྲོངས་གྱུར། ཞོགས་པ་སྔ་པོར་༸བྱམས་མགོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་མཆོག་གིས་འཕོ་འདེབས་དང་ཐུགས་སྨོན་ཟབ་རྒྱས་གནང་རྗེས་སྐུ་ཕུང་གདན་ས་དཔལ་སྤུངས་ཤེས་རབ་གླིང་དུ་དྲངས། སྔོན་འགྲོའི་རྩིས་བཅོས་དང་ཆོ་ག་གང་དགོས་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༡༡ ཉིན་གདན་སའི་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་དང་རྡོར་སློབ་སྒྲུབ་དཔོན་བཅས་དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོགས་དགེ་འདུན་འདུས་ཚོགས་དང་འདས་པོའི་མ་དང་སྲིང་མོ་ནང་མི་ལྷན་དུ་འཛོམས་པའི་མདུན་སར་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མགོན་པོ་མི་འཁྲུགས་པ་དང། དཔལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཆོ་གའི་སྒོ་ནས་ཕུང་པོ་བསྲེགས་སྦྱོང་བགྱིས་ནས་ཞེ་དགུ་རིང་བཟུང་གནང་བཞིན་པ་བཅས།

The Passing of Chamberlain Paljor Tsering

Paljor Tsering entered the Dharma path at Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat around 1983, where he studied reading, writing, and ritual practices, and spent approximately five years studying sacred scriptures at the monastic college. In 1999, he was appointed as an attendant to Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. For twenty-six years, he served as personal attendant and chamberlain, remaining inseparably at Guru Vajradhara's side and fulfilling his responsibilities diligently, with pure faith and unwavering devotion.
At the beginning of 2025, he became gravely ill with a severe condition. Despite undergoing surgery and medical treatment at Apollo Hospital in Delhi, a respected medical institution, and despite showing some initial improvement, his condition ultimately did not respond to the various treatments administered over more than two months of hospitalization. He passed away on December 7.
Paljor Tsering possessed a pure and sincere dedication to the Dharma. In particular, due to his unshakable faith and devotion to Guru Vajradhara, his sole refuge for all lifetimes, Guru Vajradhara visited him numerous times in the hospital to bestow empowerments and perform prayers. On December 6, Guru Vajradhara bestowed the Vajrasattva empowerment, together with prayers and guidance. Around midnight, Guru Vajradhara visited him again and recited the “Mahamudra Prayer” and “Maitreya's Aspiration.” During these prayers, Paljor Tsering raised his right hand in prayer and repeated the aspirations accordingly, listening attentively to all the prayers and pointing-out instructions bestowed by Guru Vajradhara, responding, “So it is,” to each one. At approximately 1:00 a.m., without any sign of pain or distress, he passed away peacefully.
Early the next morning, Guru Vajradhara performed the transference of consciousness (phowa) and extensive prayers. His body was then brought to Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat, where all preliminary astrological assessments and rituals were completed in full accordance with tradition. On December 11, with the monastic seat's tulkus, vajra master and retreat master presiding, the monastic community performed the rituals of Akshobhya and Vajrasattva. The cremation took place in the presence of his mother, sister, and family members and the forty-nine-day memorial rituals are currently being observed.

內務管家帕久慈仁辭世

帕久慈仁約於1983年在八蚌智慧林進入佛法道途，學習讀寫與儀軌修法，並在佛學院研習經論約五年。1999年，他被任命為金剛持尊勝的慈尊廣定大司徒巴的侍者。二十六年來，他作為仁波切的貼身侍者與內務管家，常隨上師金剛持左右，以清淨信心與堅定虔敬心，恪盡職守、勤勉奉事。
2025年初，他罹患重病，病情危急。儘管在德里著名的阿波羅醫院接受了手術及治療，且一度出現好轉跡象，但在住院兩個多月、經過多種治療後，病情最終未能得到控制，於12月7日示寂。
帕久慈仁對佛法懷有純粹而至誠的奉獻之心。尤其因其對上師金剛持 — 其生生世世唯一皈依處 — 具足不可動搖的信心與虔敬心，上師金剛持多次前往醫院，為他賜予灌頂和念修祈禱。12月6日，上師金剛持賜予金剛薩埵灌頂，並念誦祈請文與進行引導。約在午夜時分，上師金剛持再次前往探視，誦念《大手印祈請文》與《彌勒願文》。在念誦祈請中，帕久慈仁舉起右手合掌，隨文發願，專注聆聽上師金剛持所賜予的所有祈請文與直指教言，並逐一回應 “是這樣的”。約淩晨一點，在毫無痛苦與不適的情況下，他安詳舍報。
翌日清晨，上師金剛持為其修了頗瓦法及廣大的祈請念誦。隨後，其法體被帶回八蚌智慧林，依照傳統圓滿完成一切前行的星算與儀軌。12月11日，在寺院祖古與金剛上師的主持下，僧眾修持了不動佛與金剛薩埵儀軌。荼毗儀式在其母親、妹妹及家屬的陪同下舉行。目前四十九日紀念修法法會正在進行中。
Source:palpung.org

24/11/2025

November & December Events at Palpung Ireland

A warm invitation to join us this winter for meditation, teachings, ritual prayers and practices at Palpung Ireland, Banteer, Co. Cork.
All welcome to join all sessions, in person & on Zoom
Please email palpungireland@gmail.com for Zoom Link , puja texts and details.
No booking necessary unless stated.

💠 WEEKLY EVENTS
🧘 Drop-in meditation
Monday 7pm - 8.30pm & Thursday 10am - 11.30am
Guided calm-abiding meditation with theme based video clips
Theme Nov/Dec : “Loving, kindness and compassion” based on recent teachings Guru Vajradhara gave at the request of Palpung Russia.

💙 Wednesday Medicine Buddha Practice 7pm – 7.45pm
Healing the body and mind .

🕊️ Saturday White Tara Practice 10am – 10.45am
A practice for long life and realizing deathlessness.

💓 Saturday Tong-len Practice 11am – 12 noon
Tong-len, or “sending and receiving,” is a method of developing compassion and loving-kindness.(not suitable for complete beginners)
💠 MONTHLY EVENTS & LUNAR PRACTICES
🌿 Friday November 28th (8th lunar day) 10am- 11am – Green Tara Practice for transforming fear and removing obstacles.

📘 Sunday November 30th – Discover Buddha Within 3 Review
(Restricted to DBW3 retreat participants.)

🌕 Thursday December 4th – Full Moon Day Practice
Our regular Thursday meditation will include a Butter Lamp Offering.

📘 Sunday December 14th – DBW3 Review
Restricted to DBW3 retreat participants.

🌿 Saturday December 27th – Green Tara Practice 9.45am – 10.45am
Followed by:
💓 Tong-len – 11am – 12pm

💠 SPECIAL EVENTS
❄️ Sunday December 21st – Winter Solstice Celebration
9am – 12 noon
The winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, occurs at 9.03am (GMT) on December 21st.

Schedule:
9am – 9.30am — Chanting of Kuntuzangpo Prayer
9.30am – 10am — Butter Lamp Offering
(All attendees receive a lamp to offer)
10.30am – 11am — Coffee break
11am – 12 noon — Meditation and the Dewachen Monlam (prayer for rebirth in the land of bliss) for those who have died

🎄 Thursday December 25th – Christmas Day Meditation 10am – 11am
Join us for our annual Christmas morning meditation.
Meditation is followed by brunch at the Centre.
Everyone is welcome!

🕯️ Thursday January 1st, 2026 – New Year’s Day Retreat / Workshop 10am – 4.30pm

01/11/2025

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲⁣
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Proper generosity is to give whatever we have and there are many wonderful, inspiring stories of great Bodhisattvas who have given their own flesh to nourish starving animals. Whatever we can manage to give, we give to those who need it, paying particular attention to help those who represent the Three Jewels, those who have helped us - our parents especially - who are sick and unprotected, and also those who are our particular enemies or rivals. The way in which we make our gift to them should be joyfully, respectfully, with a compassionate heart and without regret. It is better to give with one’s own hand rather than through others, to give at just the right time, and, of course, to give without harming others. Impartial giving is best and a wise person gives⁣
just what is needed.⁣
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An extract from the book 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 by His Holiness Guru Vajradhara the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.

30/10/2025