A special fasting retreat celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment Day

Nyungnay is one of our most precious Kadampa dharma jewels and as a centre practice, it comes around just once a year – on Buddha’s Enlightenment Day.

We can spend two days with Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of great compassion, making exquisite offerings, praises and prostrations and thereby accumulate huge merit, purify vast negativity for ourself and others and receive the most powerful blessing to propel ourself swiftly along our path to enlightenment.

Wrapped within the practice of Mahayana Precepts, it involves fasting and making three sessions of prostrations, with the sadhana ‘Drop of Essential Nectar’, over two days. Usually, the second day is accompanied by a full fast, although strongly recommended, this is not compulsory.

Everyone is welcome to join us for this special retreat.

Schedule:

Please kindly note that this is an unguided in-person only event; it is not available via livestream.

It is necessary to take Mahayana Precepts each morning at 6.30am to be able to engage in retreat sessions*
* The evening pujas can be attended by anyone, whether they have taken precepts or not

Monday 14th
Session 1 | 6.30 – 8.30am (including Precepts)
Session 2 | 10 – 11.15am
Session 3 | 3 – 4.30pm
Wishfulfilling Jewel puja |  7pm

Tuesday 15th – Buddha’s Enlightenment Day
Session 1 | 6.30 – 8.30am (including Precepts)
Session 2 | 10 – 11.15am
Session 3 | 3 – 4.30pm
Offering to the Spiritual Guide Tsog puja | 7pm

Fees:

Introduction: £5  | members free

Retreat days: £15 per day (evening pujas are free) | members free

Venue: KMC Edinburgh | 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5EA