Chanted Meditations
Group meditations give us an opportunity to come together in prayer and to make praises and requests to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Using ancient prayers translated into English we receive the blessings, protection and guidance of the holy beings. We can make requests for ourselves or for others who need help or protection.
These spiritual practices create a strong connection with the Buddhas, and help us purify our negativity and fill our mind with positive, healing energy. These meditations are open to everyone. People sit on chairs or on cushions on the floor. All chanted meditations are held at Dromtonpa Kadampa Buddhist Center.
Heart Jewel with Lamrim Meditation
Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-6pm
This practice is the heart essence of Kadampa Buddhism. In the first part we visualize our Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa and make prayers and requests to purify negativity, accumulate merit and receive blessings. This prepares our mind for a twenty-minute meditation on the Lamrim or Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. After the meditation we make prayers to our Dharma Protector. Through this we can overcome obstacles to our practice and create favorable conditions so that we can nurture and increase our pure Dharma realizations. (1 hour)
Offering to the Spiritual Guide (OSG)
on the 10th and 25th of each month - please check calendar 
This is a special Guru yoga of Je Tsongkhapa in conjunction with Highest Yoga Tantra that is a preliminary practice for Vajrayana Mahamudra. The main practice is relying upon our Spiritual Guide as a Buddha and making praises and requests, but it also includes all the essential practices of the stages of the path, and training the mind, as well as both the generation stage and completion stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. By relying upon Je Tsongkhapa our compassion, wisdom and spiritual power naturally increase. This practice includes a tsog offering so please bring a food offering with you if you wish. (2 hours)
Wishfulfilling Jewel with tsog offering
Sundays 3:30-4:30pm
This is a more extensive version of Heart Jewel in which we make prayers and requests to Je Tsongkhapa and our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugdän. We make a special food offering known as a tsog offering to create a vast amount of positive energy for ourselves and others. We invite all the Buddhas and holy beings to come and enjoy a feast of great bliss and then we enjoy the food offering together. Please bring a food offering if you wish. (1 hour)
Long Protector Puja
on the 29th of each month - please check calendar
By chanting a long prayer and making offerings, we request our Dharama Protectors to purify our transgression of downfalls, remove obstacles, fulfill our wishes and attain Dharma realizations at the end of every month. (3.5 hours)
Precepts
on the 15th of each month 
The practice of taking and keeping the eight Mahayana precepts is a special practice of moral discipline that is performed with a strong motivation to benefit others. In this practice, we take eight precepts and vow to keep them purely for a period of twenty-four hours. By doing this practice again and again, we acquaint ourself with the practice of pure moral discipline and thereby make our human life meaningful. (30 mins.)