UK Dharma Celebration 2026
This year, UK Dharma Celebration took place over a sunny long weekend at the beautiful Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre in England with Kadam Bridget Heyes, the UK National Spiritual Director.
Read MoreLast weekend we had the UK Dharma Celebration 2025. Held in the beautiful new Meditation Hall at Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre, it brought together our beloved Kadampa family from every corner of the UK, all united in faith, harmony and a shared wish for peace and Dharma to flourish.
From September 5 to 9, Kadampas from all over Germany gathered at the beautiful Tharpaland KMC for the German Festival 2025 with Gen-la Kunsang.
Last weekend, the annual National Festival for Switzerland, Italy and Austria took place at Kailash International Retreat Centre with Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab.
Special events weave deeper connections within the Kadampa Sangha and create closer communities. Here are some activities in Cologne, Fort Collins, Stuttgart, and Ottawa.
Our editors select their favorite photographs from around the world for the month of May.
It’s the last day of the Festival, and the sun is shining inside and out. We conclude our short but powerful retreat with two final meditations and with the strong determination to continue our practice in daily life.
It’s a rainy day today but as we meditate, session upon session, you feel the truth about happiness not depending on external conditions. Some of the downpours that come during meditation sessions even enhance the feeling of the meditation.
In a world that can often feel difficult, it is easy for kindness to feel like an exception not the rule. Not at Festival! Everywhere you look there is kindness and it becomes the ‘normal’ to treat others gently, with kindness and care and to be on the receiving end of others’ consideration and generosity.
When you talk to people about what they are enjoying about being at the Festival normally they say ‘everything’! The spiritual program of course, and the opportunity to be immersed in Kadampa life, but one thing comes up again and again: being together. Love. Community.
In the afternoon everyone gathers expectantly for the actual blessing empowerment of Buddha Maitreya with Gen-la Jampa. The Temple is full and it is a joyful assembly.
