As we approach the end of 2024, we want to take the opportunity to say Thank You for your ongoing support for JTCL Temple operations, which allowed us to offer the following: 

  • Offering over 40 Wednesday Tara Meditations and Prayers  
  • Offering over 40 Sunday Dharma teachings on topics like a line-by-line Commentary on the Guru Puja, the 4 Mind changings, Monthly Question and Answer and Introduction to Buddhism. Starting Tibetan learning class for everyone to be able to access recitation of more scripture 
  • Special Occasion prayers including Vajrasattva purification, Medicine Buddha prayers, Heart Sutra recitation, Refuge Vow ceremonies, 49 day prayers for Temple members and families, and Special Full Moon Prayers and Tsog offerrings throughout the year  
  • Hosting Special Events in the Tibetan Calendar for Losar, Saga Dawa, Lhabab Dhuchen, Je Tsongkhapa day, also including Children’s day festival

We are very thankful to be able to offer these programs and ongoing activities to our community. 

As we operate by donation our temple needs ongoing funding to continue expanding our offerings and to further renovate our space to continue to provide these valuable programs. Your generosity and continued support are so appreciated, and we hope we can continue to count on our supporters like you!  

If you would like to make a one-time donation or set up a monthly offering, we have included links below for Canada Helps and PayPal Charities.

You are also welcome to offer donations in person. 

Thank you for your help and support the continuation and expansion of our programs in 2025!

We are a registered charity (# 811478239RR0001), we are able to issue tax receipts for every donation you make of $25 or more.

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Our Address:
Jam Tse Cho Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple Calgary
924 36 St SE
Calgary, Alberta   T2A 1B9
Canada

Phone:
587-434-4011

Email:
contact@jtclcalgary.ca

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  • Tibetan word of the day: གཞི་གྲུབ་

    གཞི་གྲུབ་

    Established basis

    Spelling (jorlok; Tib. སྦྱོར་ཀློག་) and pronunciation:
    གཞི་ – ga-o zha gigu zhi
    གྲུབ་ – ga ra-tak dra zhabkyu dru ba drub
    zhi drub

    From class notes:

    “First, what must be understood is this: the established basis (Tib. གཞི་གྲུབ་ gzhi grub), object of knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ shes bya), existence (Tib. ཡོད་པ་ yod pa), and phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ chos) are all of one meaning.

    The meaning of an established basis is that which is established by valid cognition (Skt. pramāṇa).”


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