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24 July 2025

Ordination Day
Summer Festival 2025

New Sangha Jewels are Born

Today new Sangha Jewels were born from their Renunciation and took the meaningful step of seeking ordination, surrounded by a great assembly of dedicated Kadampa monks and nuns acting as their witnesses and with Gen-la Dekyong as the ordaining preceptor.

Through the great kindness of Venerable Geshe-la, modern people have the opportunity to practice the ordination vows exactly in accordance with Buddha's intention. Gen-la shared precious teachings from an ordination ceremony with Geshe-la originally given in 2007 where he described very clearly not only what the ordination vows are - a mental action - but also how to keep them purely and sincerely throughout our life in conjunction with our Lamrim practice.

Gen-la Dekyong deeply inspired the ordained Sangha with her powerful teachings encouraging us to always maintain a strong determination to cherish our vows and enjoy our spiritual life. In this way we can become pure examples in the world and benefit others.

We dedicated:

"May the Dharma Centres of all knowing Losang Dragpa be filled with hosts of Sanghas and Yogis,
Striving to practice single-pointedly the three pure trainings
And thus may there be the auspiciousness of Buddha's Doctrine remaining for a very long time."

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