Ordination Day – Summer Festival 2026
Jul 24, 2026
“Happiness and suffering are feelings – parts of our mind – and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering we must improve our understanding of the mind.“
With these words, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche introduces his extraordinary book, How to Understand the Mind, which is the featured book for this month,
Read more at https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-understand-the-mind.

Today many hundreds of monks and nuns gathered in the temple at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre for the Spring Festival Ordination Ceremony with Gen-la Jampa, with nine new Ordained Sangha appearing.