Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre

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

24/10/2025

Discover Buddha within year 3 with Venerable khenpo Phurba Wangchuk .

17/10/2025

A group from Palpung Ireland will attend DBW1 "Inner Peace" in Delhi April 2026. The 6 day retreat will be presided over by our Guru Vajradhara HH Tai Situ Pa . Guru Vajradhara will teach twice a day and there will be 2 meditation sessions.
DBW manifested out of pure compassion and a wish to benefit beings from the mind of Guru Vajradhara. Even if you have attended DBW1 before, this opportunity to receive the transmission from him is not to be missed.
For further information and registration please visit palpung.org
All welcome to join Palpung Ireland's group palpungireland@gmail.com for information

30/09/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚⁣
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When you have compassion, a bodhisattva’s compassion for all sentient beings, why you have bodhicitta for all sentient beings is because of your joy, not because of your sorrow. When you see that all sentient beings are suffering, you see that they don’t have to suffer, they can get out of that suffering, but not from somewhere else, the means of getting out of suffering is in them. Buddha-nature is in them, primordial wisdom is in them. When you see that then you get the natural aspiration, “May I reach liberation so that I can liberate all mother sentient beings who are suffering absolutely unnecessarily.” You have aspiration, confidence and a destination; it is more than just hope. So that is joy, it is not sorrow. It is not like, “These poor sentient beings are suffering. I have to do something for them.” It is, “These future Buddhas are unnecessarily suffering. They are having a nightmare. Their essence is perfect so they have all the means in them to overcome this suffering. So may I be the aspiration and guide for them. May I have that honor to be the guide and example and giver of that great realization for them, to make them realize who they are,” that’s all. You are not bringing something from somewhere and giving it to them, or cutting something from yourself and sewing it on to them. It is just making them realize who they are. That is what bodhicitta is. And it is joy, confidence, and an honor. It is not suffering, it is not pain and it is not misery.⁣
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From 𝘕𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 a selection of teachings of Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa⁣.
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https://justdharma.org/the-joy-of-bodhicitta/

19/09/2025

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.
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It is very important for us to develop a true, true compassion and true love and kindness. True one. So how can you do that? You and I, we should develop true compassion, true love and true kindness to our self first. We don't do anything that is harmful to our self. We do everything that is positive and meaningful and good to our self. Compassion means we we don't create suffering for our self. Loving kindness means we create, we do everything to make our self feel positive as possible. When we are able to do that then we are able to at least - at least - to have the taste of true joy and true absence of suffering and then we can translate this - and we will translate this - to others. If you don't love yourself -I sincerely feel and experience - if I can't love myself it is just a sort of illusion that we love all sentient beings, because we don't know what love is. It's just a word and so when we truly experience the love, the joy, the absence of suffering, absence of struggle, absence of negativity, then we know what compassion is, what loving-kindness is. Then, we want this for our family members, we want this for our neighbours we want this for everyone all parts of the world regardless of religion, caste, creed, ideology, ethnicity and not only human beings, to animals, to everything.⁣⁣
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An extract from 𝘎𝘶𝘳𝘶 𝘗𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘢'𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴, the first teaching in the Living Wisdom series given by Guru Vajradhara, His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, on the 27th of June 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=530p-CR_Ny8

19/09/2025

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA.🙏🪷🙏

Edit: Now with English subtitles.

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