Celebrating Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day and the Birthday of our Spiritual Guide
Jun 4, 2026
Last weekend, many people - new practitioners and more experienced Kadampas alike - gathered together from all over the UK at Kadampa Meditation Centre London to listen to Gen la Thubten’s powerful explanations of how we can use Dharma to solve all our daily problems and make ourself happy all the time.
On Friday evening, Gen-la opened the weekend with a public talk on ‘The Power of the Mind’ in KMC London’s Kensington venue; and on Saturday, ‘International Temples’ Day’, he taught on ‘The Art of Cessation’ in the KMC London’s Kadampa Temple for World Peace in Morden.
People who had come for the first time delighted in the clarity and humour of Gen-la’s explanations, and those with more experience enjoyed the profound depth and meaning of his teachings on how we can control our mind and accomplish a permanent cessation of delusion, a direct realisation of Emptiness.
The weekend concluded with everyone feeling inspired to put the teachings into practice, and to keep building a spiritual community across the city so that all Londoners can benefit from Buddha’s teachings. A beautiful weekend - thank you Gen-la!
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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.