Activities & Events
Tara mantra accumulation
Join the White Lotus sangha in reciting the Tara mantra to generate blessings for our search for an appropriate building!
May 2025
Sundays *denotes special Sunday program*
Every Sunday:
10:00-11:30 am Prayers, Dharma Talk by Khenpo Molam or Frank Howard, Meditation
* May 5 – Achi Chokyi Drolma practice for Dharma Protectors Day – in addition to the above.
* May 3-4 – Khenpo Molam teaches on the Bodhisattvacarayavatara – below for details
Tuesdays: 7:00 pm
05/06: White Tara Practice Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83911389863
05/13: Vajrakilaya Practice – contact info@whitelotusdharma.org for a zoom link.
05/20: White Tara Practice Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83911389863
05/27: Vajrakilaya Practice – contact info@whitelotusdharma.org for a zoom link.
Thursday Night Study Group
7:00pm: Buddhism, Its Breadth and Depth
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: Led by Frank Howard, White Lotus Director and senior teacher.
Teaching and discussion will focus on the book Tibetan Tradition of Mental Development by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
In person or zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/
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Special Programs
Save the Date!
July 12-13: Ven. Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicitta and Guru Yoga
Details coming soon . . .
Saturday & Sunday
June 14-15
White Lotus is happy to welcome Dr. Kunchog Tseten!
Tibet holds a vast and flourishing science of herbal and naturopathic medicine which includes healing modalities such as meditation, mantra, and so forth. To understand Tibetan medicine requires extensive training, education and practice with experienced doctors.
10:00 am – 12:30 pm Dr. Kunchog will teach on:
Chudlen བཅུད་ལེན། Tibetan Rejuvenation
The internal systems of our body are in constant flux, responding to external changes in our environment at all levels. A means of maintaining balance amid all of this change, Tibetan Chudlen is a healing science combining naturopathic medicine with spiritual practice. In this course, we will learn how we can transform and rejuvenate the body, its energies, and the mind by connecting to the subtle energetic systems that underlie our body and mind. In practicing Chudlen, detoxifying one’s system is understood to be crucial. Here we will focus more on the individual’s bodily constitutions, using it to determine specific cleansing recipes and remedies.
We’ll also study the basic knowledge behind Tibetan anti-aging practices and learn simple methods for improving health and vitality by balancing the mind and our subtle energies.
We’ll do this with the body by introducing some basic movements for open the channels; with our speech through breathing the use of mantra; and the mind by receiving transmission of the rejuvenation meditation instructions.
These teachings are based on the instruction of Yuthok Yönten Gönpo, the father of Tibetan Medicine; as well as from the Four Medical Tantras (Tib. gyudzhi) and Dr. Kunchog’s personal practice and clinical experience.
Dr consults are available in the afternoons. See below.
The Program, Dr. Consults and Cost
The Program
Saturday & Sunday, June 14-15
10:00 am – 12:30 pm Dr. Kunchog will teach on:
Chudlen བཅུད་ལེན། Tibetan Rejuvenation – see above
Suggested Offering for the two mornings is $120. To pay by credit card or Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ME2FBEU4G4R52
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*Dr Consults available:
Saturday and Sunday, from 2:00 – 5:00 pm and Monday June 16 for a limited number of consults in the morning.
$125 (preferably cash or check, paid directly to Dr. Kunchog) at the time of the consult. Fee includes consult and a 3 month supply of herbal medicine.
To schedule an appointment for a consult, please contact us at: info@whitelotusdharma.org
There are some preparations you need to attend to before your appointment. Once you have signed up for an appointment we will send you the instructions.
About Dr Kunchog
About Menpa Kunchog
Menpa Kunchog is a traditionally trained doctor of Tibetan medicine having been thoroughly educated in Tibet before coming to the United States. Once here, he continued supplementing his extensive training with studies in acupuncture and other disciplines at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, graduating in April 2019. He now sees patients at his own clinic in Manhattan.
“The renowned Tibetan scholar Sakya Pandita said, “Great happiness is a happy mind.” This short saying gestures toward one of the central concerns of Tibetan medicine—the relationship between body and mind . . . .
Tibetan medicinal pills . . . treat [afflictions]—anxiety, stress, depression—by balancing the winds of related organs & organ systems. We never seek to merely palliate disease symptoms. We put our diagnostic skills to use in uncovering and treating the root underlying any illness.”
A devoted Buddhist practitioner, Dr. Kunchog also taught Tibetan language at Columbia University for a few years while starting up his clinic. Kunchog is an old friend of White Lotus Buddhist Center, having become part of our sangha while a student of English at RIT. He taught here previously – several times before the covid pandemic and now annually. For more details on his background go to: http://www.menpakunchog.com/about/. You can also visit his FB page: Guna Natha Tibetan Medicine.