General Spiritual Director
News from the post Fall Festival retreats
Nov 13, 2024
Day 2 ~ Empowerment
Yesterday we had the great good fortune to receive the empowerment of Buddha Shakyamuni from Gen-la Khyrerab, retired General Spiritual Director.
Month: July 2022
Day 1 ~ Introduction
The 2022 International Summer Festival opened last night with an introductory teaching by Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, retired Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU.
Ready to Begin
Finally, after a wait of three years we are gathering again at the mother centre to listen to and contemplate Dharma and to be together as a worldwide sangha family.
This evening at 7.30 we will enter the Temple to listen to the introductory teaching with Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang.
ORDINATION DAY
On Thursday July 28, the day before the Summer Festival begins, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU, granted ordination to 23 new Sangha in the Kadampa Temple for World Peace at Manjushri KMC.
Why training qualified Kadampa Teachers is so important
For the last three weeks in the run up to the 2022 Summer Festival, Manjushri KMC has been abuzz with almost 200 Resident Teachers from around the world studying on the Intensive Teacher Training Program.
Just a few days to go!
With just a few days until the Summer Festival begins at Manjushri KMC in the UK, enthusiastic teams of helpers, including the Teachers, are busy making the final preparations around the Festival site.
A beautiful end to a beautiful year
Recently we featured the summer party held by KMC Barcelona at their retreat center in Montserrat. This was followed by a party at their urban Temple in the city to celebrate the end of the teaching year.
Ask a Buddhist Teacher: Do scientists and Buddhists see eye to eye?
Gen Kelsang Rigpa, Western US National Spiritual Director and Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center LA, answers “Do Scientists and Buddhists see eye to eye?”
ONE WEEK TO GO!
Manjushri KMC is now closed to the public and preparations have begun in earnest for Summer Festival 2022.
After the busiest month ever, the Manjushri Cafe closed with the staff and volunteers celebrating with a party on the lawn. The next day they set about a deep clean of the cafe preparing it to transform into a Festival cafe.
A new Kadampa Meditation Center is established in Cologne
Through the kindness of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche the New Kadampa Tradition has purchased a modern and well-located commercial space in the heart of Cologne, the fourth biggest city in Germany.