Rejoicing in the International Temples Project
Across six Kadampa centers in the US, Mexico and Brazil, International Temples Day was celebrated with joyful gatherings, meaningful meditation, inspiring teachings and practical acts of cherishing. Each community came together to celebrate the vision of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche and the International Temples Project, rejoicing in its precious work of bringing Buddha’s teachings and inner peace to people throughout the world.
Kadampa Meditation Center Georgia, US
A Joyful Day of Retreat
A Day of Meditation and Rejoicing
On International Temples Day this year, we enjoyed a thoughtful and meaningful day of retreat at KMC Georgia with visiting Teacher, Gen Kelsang Zamling from KMC Chicago. After generating peaceful minds by meditating on methods to overcome stress and anxiety, we enjoyed watching the special International Temples Day video. The festivities continued into the evening with a sangha community dinner. Thank you Venerable Geshe-la for giving us this joyful opportunity.
Kadampa Meditation Center Long Island, US
Cherishing Our Center Together
A Day of Service and Community
KMC Long Island celebrated NKT International Temples Day on Saturday, Nov 7, by hosting a center cherishing cleaning event. Volunteers gathered to watch the inspiring NKT International Temples Day video and then teamed up to wash windows, clean floors, vacuum, organize, dust, hang publicity posters, rake leaves, and clip shrubs to help beautify our urban Temple in Huntington, NY.
Sangha Celebrating International Temples Day in Brazil
Sangha at KMC Rio de Janeiro gather together to celebrate International Temples Day.
Sangha at KMC Campinas enjoying the new Temples Day video together.
Sangha at KMC Indaiatuba celebrating together.
Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Buddhist Center, Pachuca Mexico
A Buddhist Perspective on Death
Finding Meaning in Our Precious Human Life
On the first Saturday of November, we celebrated NKT International Temples Day, a beautiful initiative of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, whose purpose of which is to bring Buddha’s teachings to everyone.
Here at Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Buddhist Center in Pachuca, we marked the occasion with a talk entitled A Buddhist Perspective on Death, given by our Resident Teacher, Gen Kelsang Gawa. During this talk, we learned about the benefits of meditating on death every day, why we should give meaning to this precious human life, and how to stop identifying with this body.
Through World Peace Temples, Meditation Centers, retreats, World Peace Cafés and Tharpa Publications, spaces are created where people can cultivate inner peace, wisdom and love.
We celebrate this work with gratitude, knowing that it plants the seeds for peace and Dharma to flourish throughout the world.
