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Please become a Member

We need your financial support to help spread the Buddha’s teachings in Melbourne
Please become a member of Tara Institute

Members of Tara Institute support Venerable Geshe Doga and our teachers to continue teaching Buddha’s gentle philosophies and in so doing benefit all sentient beings.

The cost of maintaining and improving the facilities at Tara Institute, administering and presenting the teachings and caring for our resident teacher, Ven. Geshe Doga, his translator and attendant run to $1,000 a day.

While Tara Institute receives financial support through residents’ rent, membership fees and the generosity of donors and volunteers, more members are needed to ensure the continuation of the Centre and its work.

Your generosity of a donation or member fees will accumulate merit for your own enlightenment and liberation. However, even in this life, you will help countless sentient beings who attend these teachings and make positive changes in their lives and the lives of those around them.

In this life, in gratitude for your support as a Tara Institute member you’ll receive:

  • Free entry to Monday night teachings
  • Borrowing rights to Tara Institute’s extensive library
  • 10% off all bookshop items
  • Discounts on courses and course accommodation
  • Monthly newsletter
  • Free publications from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
  • Invitations to special members’ events
  • Email notification of upcoming events of interest
  • One free 3-course meal in Tara Institute’s dining room (Monday to Wednesday from 6:30-7:30pm)
  • Free entry to Monday night teachings

Membership Form

If you’d like to become a member of Tara Institute & help to free all sentient beings from their suffering, you can download the membership form here, print out and return to the Tara Institute office.


If you have any questions at all, please call our office on (03) 9596 8900 during office hours.

 

White Tara Initiation

Sunday 22 August at 10am

Dharma Quote

Even when we are seeking to accomplish our own aims, it is illogical, even in a worldly sense, to disregard the welfare of others. When the text says, ‘when seeking to accomplish one’s own aims, one must not disregard the welfare of others’ it is in relation to not giving up the sense of love and compassion towards others. According to this tradition, in order to fulfil our own aims, which is to achieve the state of enlightenment, we need to develop love and compassion towards others. This point needs to be understood.

Ven. Geshe Doga 16-6-10