This weekend, Manjushri KMC hosted a wonderful retreat entitled “The Magic of Meditation” with Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, Retired Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT and Resident Teacher at KMC Edinburgh.
We can only marvel at the speed and attention to detail involved in the construction of sixth Kadampa Temple for World Peace in Málaga.
The International Kadampa Buddhist Union is a global spiritual family emanating from the heart of our precious Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. One of the many advantages of this union is that because the Dharma and spiritual direction are the same for all constituent centers it is easy for them to engage in cooperative ventures. Here we feature two recent collaborations.
March 31 – April 4 Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT, will teach the 2021 Spanish Kadampa Festival hosted by KMC Spain, where the the sixth Kadampa Temple for World Peace is currently under construction.
Last weekend, a rain of blessings fell as many centers around the world held special events at which fortunate Kadampa students received empowerments both in-person and online.
This past weekend, KMC Canada hosted a special weekend event at which Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab, retired General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU and National Spiritual Director for Canada gave profound teachings on the ultimate nature of all phenomena. The event was open to everyone in Canada.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dharma centers and communities working together harmoniously to give and receive teachings, in-person and on-line, are truly objects of rejoicing. Here we feature a center where the students were able to gather in person to receive empowerment and teachings this weekend as Gen Kelsang Rinchung granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani at KMC Argentina.
Last Saturday the fortunate students of KMC Georgia in Atlanta received the empowerment and commentary to the practice of Buddha Amitayus from their Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Norden.
In the first video of this series, Kadam Morten Clausen reads his favorite passage from the book How To Transform Your Life and explains what it means for him.
In a couple of weeks, Colombia will enjoy its first ever National Kadampa Dharma Celebration hosted by KMC Colombia . It will be an excellent opportunity to gather Kadampa Buddhist practitioners and supporters from all over Colombia and neighboring countries.
General Spiritual Director
