Dechen London: Sakya Buddhist Centre

03/03/2026

✨ The Festival of Miracles is here! ✨
Today we celebrate Chotrul Duchen, one of the four great holy days in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar.

🌕Occurring on the full moon of the first Tibetan month, this "Festival of Miracles" commemorates the fifteen days during which the Buddha performed a series of incredible feats to instil faith and inspire devotion in his followers.

✨ It is believed that during this period, the effects of our actions — positive or negative — are greatly multiplied. For this reason, many practitioners make special effort on Chotrul Duchen to:
🪷 Practice meditation
🪷 Recite prayers and aspirations
🪷 Offer butter lamps
🪷 Cultivate generosity and kindness

May this auspicious day bring clarity, compassion and wisdom to all. 🕯️✨

02/03/2026

✨This Week at Dechen London
🧘 We look forward to welcoming you to our weekly classes, to support you in today’s challenging world.
👇 Details for each event below

28/02/2026

March 2026 dates and news at Dechen London - https://mailchi.mp/dechen/november-news-and-events-11044975

22/02/2026

Vajrayana initiations with His Holiness
Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche and His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trizin: a historic occasion for London.

🏛️Kensington Town Hall
🗓️11–12 July 2026

If you’re curious about the life of His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trizin, take a look at our post for a short biographical overview.

Refuge will be given each day. Places are limited – find the link in the event page.

21/02/2026

Lama Jampa Thaye explores the remarkable life of Tangtong Gyalpo, the 15th-century Tibetan master, yogin, bridge-builder, treasure revealer, and creator of t...

21/02/2026

🌟 Today we honour the Anniversary of Mahāsiddha Thangtong Gyalpo - a remarkable Tibetan Buddhist master whose life was a true expression of wisdom and compassion. Born in the 14th–15th century, he was a great yogi, engineer, teacher, and tireless benefactor of all beings. Among many contributions, he built numerous iron-chain suspension bridges across the Himalayas to ease travel and pilgrimage, founded monasteries and temples, and inspired the tradition of Tibetan opera as a means of uplifting communities.

🕉️ Thangtong Gyalpo is also renowned for his Avalokiteśvara (Chenrezig) sadhana - a practice composed “for the benefit of beings as limitless as space” and widely recited throughout Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.

🙏 Join us this Sunday at 10:30 am for Chenrezik Puja, where we will recite this cherished sadhana composed by Mahāsiddha Thangtong Gyalpo - a powerful practice of compassion and loving-kindness for the welfare of all beings. 💛📿

17/02/2026

Buddhist teaching on The King of Aspiration Prayer. Booking now open – find the link in the event page.

📍 Regent’s University, London
🗓 Saturday 21st March 2026
🕥 10:30am

Radiant with boundless compassion, The King of Aspirations was spoken by the great bodhisattva Samantabhadra at the close of the Avatamsaka Sutra. Counted among the Five Royal Sutras, it remains one of the most widely practised prayers in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism, now increasingly embraced in the West.

Lama Jampa will teach this profound text through the elegant commentary of the 19th-century master Drakpa Gyaltsen, a close disciple of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.

In the afternoon, Lama Jampa will bestow the Initiation of Sitatapatra (White Umbrella Deity), renowned in the Vajrayana tradition for protection from obstacles, harm and adverse conditions. This is a rare opportunity to connect with her enlightened activity within an authentic lineage context.

16/02/2026

✨ This Week at Dechen London – Week Commencing 16th February 2026 ✨
👇 What’s on this week:

15/02/2026

11/02/2026

📿 Dakini Day & Remembrance of Rendawa Shonnu Lodro🌙✨

Today is Dakini Day, an auspicious day associated with wisdom and awakening in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar 💫🌺

Today also marks the anniversary of Rendawa Shonnu Lodro (1349–1412), one of the great masters of the Sakya tradition 📜🙏

Rendawa Shonnu Lodro was a renowned scholar of Madhyamaka (Middle Way) philosophy, especially the Prāsaṅgika approach 🧠

✨ He is also remembered as one of the principal teachers of Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug school 🪷📚 Their profound teacher–student relationship helped shape the course of Tibetan Buddhist thought.

On this Dakini Day, we remember Rendawa Shonnu Lodro with gratitude for his vast contribution to the Dharma and his enduring legacy across Tibetan Buddhist lineages 🙏🧡

10/02/2026

🌿 This Week at Dechen London — see details below
We warmly invite you to join us for our classes, study groups and practices.
We look forward to practising together this week. 🍂🧡🍁

08/02/2026

Vajrayana initiations with His Holiness
Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche and His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, a historic occasion for London.

🏛️Kensington Town Hall
🗓️11–12 July 2026

If you’re curious about the life and lineage of His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche, take a look at our post for a short biographical overview.

Refuge will be given each day. Places are limited, book via the link in the Events section.