News from the post Fall Festival retreats
Nov 13, 2024
Part I of the January retreat at Manjushri KMC, Contemplation, has now concluded and the changeover to Part II is complete. Last night Part II, Meditation, got under way with a powerful and extremely clear teaching to a packed Temple by Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU.
In the previous post we featured the winter retreat currently underway in the first Temple for World Peace at KMC New York. In this post we catch up with the Mountain Retreat in the magnificent new Temple at IKRC Grand Canyon.
The Oral Instructions of Mahamudra retreat at KMC New York has reached the end of its first week. Practitioners have joined from all over the world: China, Australia, Canada, Ireland and Switzerland. Read their report.
The 2020 Spring Festival booking goes live this Thursday January 16, at 1.00pm UK time. Find out more. . .
85 people from all over Argentina, Uruguay and Peru gathered at KMC Argentina this weekend to celebrate 10 Years of Kadam Dharma in Argentina.
After the Australian Festival, Gen-la Khyenrab travelled across the water for the New Zealand Festival.
How wonderful to receive the empowerment of Vajrasattva from such a pure Teacher and to hear teachings on removing obstacles and negative karma.
Enjoy this video showing the stages by which the statues and Temple adornments are produced at the Kadampa Art Studio
Following on from our coverage yesterday of the Vajrayogini Day celebrations at the mother centre, here we share more photos from some the other centers around the world.
The month of January is a special month in the Kadampa calendar during which we emphasise the practices of Heruka and Vajrayogini, the principal Highest Yoga Tantra Deities of modern Kadampa Buddhism. Today, the tenth day of the month, is Vajrayogini Day.
As the first week of the January retreats at Manjushri KMC begins to draw to a close, we asked a few of the retreaters over lunch what they have got out of the retreat so far: