The Path of Awakening in This Time & Place Teachings with Lama Lodro
July 15 to August 20 : Workshops, Wongkurs, and Mentoring at DCC
✨ You are not required to attend the entire series.
Participants are welcome to join for just one workshop, a single empowerment, or any portion that fits your schedule.
WONGKURS (Empowerments)
~ Open to Public ~
📍 Please arrive by 1:30 PM.
The empowerment will take place from 2:00–3:00 PM, followed by a Q&A session with Lama Lodro to support your understanding and clarify any questions related to the practice. If you plan to stay overnight, please contact our Retreat Coordinator at retreats@dharmacentre.org for details and arrangements.
July 19 : VAJRA SATTVA WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche said “If you can attend only one wongkur in your entire lifetime, make it the Vajra Sativa wongkur”. He described it as the most important of the Vajrayana wongkurs. Vajra Sattva represents the innate purity of unhindered Mind and personal integration with the energy of the cosmos. Vajra Sattva meditations help us dispel the Three Root Poisons of Ignorance, Craving, Aversion and purifiy outer and inner aspects of Body, Speech, Mind, Motivation, Intention, Action, and Karma.
July 20 : WHITE TARA of LONG LIFE WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
White Tara of Long Life is known as “She Who Saves”, is considered one of the “Great Healers”, and is described as an extremely powerful, multi-faceted female aspect of Buddha-nature. White Tara meditations help to boost mental strength, focus, and clarity in addition to benefiting all aspects of healing, including healing the body’s subtle energy matrix, repairing the aura, purifying negative karma, and helping us attain our full potential of vitality and longevity in this lifetime.
July 26 : MEDICINE BUDDHA WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
Medicine Buddha represents our own potential for transformative healing and the attainment of good health for every aspect of our being. The Medicine Buddha concept is that good health is the natural state of all living beings.
Medicine Buddha meditations stimulate healing of the energy body and physical body as well as encouraging and elevating the perception, insight, motivation, and perseverance that helps an individual make and sustain positive choices which support good health. Additionally, specialized Medicine Buddha exercises help individuals identify personally beneficial nutriments and medicines.
July 27 : RED TARA WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
Red Tara is a dynamic wisdom aspect of female Buddha nature which helps insight into the true nature of ourselves, the world, and the universe. Red Tara meditations help to develop the curiosity, insight, wisdom, courage, strength, and motivation to remove inner hindrances and outer obstacles on the Path of Awakening. All of the many forms of Tara work in different ways to activate our inner Buddha natures and promote improved health and longevity.
July 28 : SAKYAMUNI and MANJUSRI WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
The Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, in which Lama Lodro received the highest level of authorization to conduct these wongkurs, has set the Sakyamuni wongkur as an entry into their heritage of Manjusri wongkurs.
Sakyamuni is Siddhartha Gautama, proclaimed to be a Buddha by the people of his time in the sub-himalayan regions 2700 hundred years ago. Sakyamuni is the compassionate preceptor of the 4 Noble Truths and Eightfold Path that have guided people of every generation after him in their personal paths of Awakening. We continue to be inspired by his choice to walk away from the comfort and wealth of a privileged life and live the rest of his life as a wandering ascetic monk dedicated to helping others to inner liberation and enlightenment.
Manjusri, described as the “Lord of Speech” is also known as the “Divine Architect” and represents our potential to achieve transcendent wisdom, clarity, and inner freedom. Manjusri is the subtlety of perceptive awareness and illuminated discernment. His upraised Wisdom-Sword is a symbol of precise clarity that separates truth from delusion, cuts through confusion, and vanquishes ignorance. Manjusri meditation helps improve mental clarity, insight, intelligence, memory, and opens pathways to new knowledge.
July 29 : PRAJNA PARAMITA WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
PRAJNA PARAMITA means “perfection of transcendent wisdom” that produces spontaneous Buddhahood. Prajna Paramita is represented as an extremely powerful female Buddha and the feminine aspect of ultimate truth. Prajna Paramita is known as the “Great Mother” and “Mother of the Buddhas” and is described as the supreme teacher and eternal font of revelation who turns the Wheel of the true teaching for the Awakening and Enlightenment of all sentient beings.
July 30 : CHENREZIG WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
Chenrezig, known as the Great Bodhisattva of Compassion and Mercy, helps us develop the clarity, right view, compassion, equanimity, and courage that fortifies us on Buddha Gautama’s Noble Eight-fold Path. Chenrezig meditations are an antidote to the Six Poisons of the Six Realms of Samsara, help us unlock the shackles of negative karma, and close the Bardo gates to the blind becoming of uncontrollable painful rebirth in Samara’s realms of suffering.
July 31 : GREEN HAYAGRIVA WONGKUR Conducted by LAMA LODRO
Open to the Public. Newcomers and experienced meditators are welcome. Lama Lodro conducts his wongkurs in English, and explains them during and after the ceremony.
GREEN HAYAGRIVA is called “King of Wrathful Deities” and is a fierce guardian aspect of Chenrezig, the Compassionate. Main goals of the Hayagriva path include developing three powerful attributes. First is clarity of perception that cannot be deceived and cuts through confusion, illusions, delusions, and disguises. Second is the skill to vanquish inner obstructions and outer obstacles. Third is the power of a compassionate warrior with strength, courage, will power, focus, and energy that is activated as needed to overcome hindrances.
Lama Lodro is a mystic yogi, meditation master, and a multi-faceted, classically trained meditation teacher currently residing with his wife, Chrys Antaya, in Yukon, Canada. Lama Lodro's teaching style is Sahaja-Tantra, which is a fluid, natural, and spontaneous weaving together of many different teachings from many diverse paths.
Important Details
Preparation Materials:
To support your understanding and deepen your experience, we encourage you to visit lamalodro.ca.
Under the "Meditation" menu, you'll find the Sadhana section where you can download or print the relevant practice materials. Please take some time to read and familiarize yourself with them before attending.
Schedule:
Empowerment: 2:00–3:00 PM (please arrive 30 min before the start time)
Break + Q&A Session: Immediately after the empowerment, Lama Lodro will offer a Q&A to support your understanding and future practice (approx. 1–1.5 hours).
Empowerment Customs:
As is traditional, participants offer a white scarf (kata) and a Dana envelope to the teacher as a gesture of respect and gratitude.
If you don’t have a kata, you may borrow one from the Centre. Dana envelopes will be available onsite.
Meals & Accommodations:
If you are attending for the day only and wish to stay overnight, please let us know in advance.
Accommodation only: $77/night (bring your own food. There is a fridge to store your food in the Tea House kitchen.)
Offsite day rate: $25
Payment Options:
Preferred: E-transfer to retreats@dharmacentre.org (Please include the retreat name in the notes)
Cheque: Payable to The Dharma Centre of Canada
International Participants: Pay via PayPal
What is Dana? Teachers give the teachings of awakening (Dharma) freely so that anyone, no matter their financial means can attend classes. Each time one receives teachings, it is an opportunity to consciously practice generosity. Giving money and other means of support expresses gratitude and support to the teacher and helps to ensure that these teachings continue. Each person receiving Dharma teachings determines the kind and amount of Dāna according to one’s heart and one’s financial means. When deciding how much to offer, one should think about what these teachings mean to you and try to give accordingly. It is recommended that students make an offering of dāna at the beginning of a class or retreat to establish the intention to make the most of this opportunity for one’s own progression and for the benefit of all others.