Celebrating Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day and the Birthday of our Spiritual Guide
Jun 4, 2026
Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, retired Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU and Resident Teacher at KMC Edinburgh, recently presided over the South African National Festival online, which was streamed from KMC Edinburgh.
To the delight of many people in South Africa, Gen-la granted the blessing empowerment of Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara and gave teachings on the inner wealth of compassion.
"What a banquet of delight. Thank you Gen-la Kunsang for such inspirational, vast, profound and blissful teachings on all the stages of the path to enlightenment and for helping us train to create the potentials to realize all these stages. Thank you to all the South African Sangha and to KMC Edinburgh too!"
June 4 is the Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day on which we celebrate Buddha’s first teaching in this world - the first Turning of the Wheel of Dharma. It is also the birthday of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, the Founder of NKT.