This year because of restrictions on travel and gathering due to the coronavirus outbreak, the 2020 Nordic Festival with Gen-la Kelsang Thubten was streamed online. Here is an excerpt from the first teaching.
KMC Chile is undergoing a major expansion as it begins remodelling the adjacent building that until now has remained undeveloped. See the video with the Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Chokyong to see what this expansion will mean for Santiago in particular and Chile as a whole.
Due to the current Covid-19 situation, this year’s International Spring Festival at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, UK, will be streamed.
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche tells the story that when he was invited to become Resident Teacher at Manjushri Centre in the UK in 1977 he remembers flying over London and thinking, ‘There are more people in this single city than there are in the whole of Tibet!’ From that moment Venerable Geshe-la held in his mind the intention to bring holy Kadam Dharma to the people of London. See the amazing story of this center on the this month’s featured center page.
This weekend, the center hosted a special day course with Gen-la Kelsang Thubten. Gen-la taught practical meditations based on the Eleven Reversals that help us to change the direction of our life through the practice of Lamrim.
With construction work beginning soon on the sixth Kadampa Temple for World Peace in Málaga, Spain, the Kadampa Art Studio in the UK has already started casting statues and adornments for the new Temple. This week witnessed the principal Buddha statue being cast
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