East Asian Dharma Celebration 2025
Mar 22, 2025
Modern Kadampa Buddhism
New Kadampa Tradition - International Kadampa Buddhist Union
Founder:
The Founder of Modern Kadampa Buddhism is Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, affectionately known as Venerable Geshe-la, a world-renowned meditation master and Teacher. He inspired thousands of people around the world to apply the pure teachings of Buddha to their modern lives to solve their personal problems and discover a deep and lasting inner peace and happiness. Today, the legacy of his life's work touches the lives of people of all nationalities and cultures.
"The day will come when you will do my job."
VENERABLE GESHE KELSANG GYATSO RINPOCHE
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche devoted his entire life to making the pure teachings of Buddha available in a modern form to people throughout the world.
Now Venerable Geshe-la's followers holding him at their hearts continue his work with auspicious projects in every region of the world.
More than 150 students attended the East Asian Dharma Celebration 2025 with Gen Kelsang Tonglam at Kadampa Meditation Center Hong Kong.
This month the blessings of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, reached Guadalajara and Cuernavaca in Mexico, Stuttgart in Germany and Tampa Bay in the USA.
Due to the great kindness of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, his guidance and his blessings, Kadampa centers in Berlin and Lyon have had the opportunity to receive the magical blessing empowerment of Great Mother Prajnaparamita and commentaries to her practice.
In the scriptures, meditation on death is said to be a hammer that shatters our delusions. It is a powerful means of eliminating both our delusions and our negative actions of body, speech, and mind.