News from the post Fall Festival retreats ~ Part 2
Nov 16, 2024
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
While the Teacher is away . . . With the Resident Teachers currently at Manjushri KMC for the Intensive Teacher Training Program, we may wonder what is happening back at the centers. Besides the regular General Program classes being maintained by senior students at the centers, there is also a host of other activities taking … Read more
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During the pandemic KMC Glasgow Teacher Gen Machig was contacted by BBC Radio Scotland to help the nation with guided meditations and wisdom advice.