Editors’ Picks ~ October 2026
Our editors select their favorite photographs from around the world for the month of October.
Read MoreVenerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche explains how we can fulfil our potential through Lamrim practice.
In centers around the world, many practitioners have had the opportunity to receive teachings on Tantra in preparation for the Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerment during this Summer Festival.
The three International Festivals are precious opportunities to receive teachings and empowerments from the Gen-las, and this experience is greatly enhanced if we can spend some time after the Festival in retreat improving our understanding of the teachings and taking their meaning to heart.
After months of dedicated work by the artists at Kadampa Art Studio, a new metal statue prototype for Kadampa Centres worldwide is nearing completion. Through the meticulous processes of bronze casting, welding, chasing, and sanding, the prototype is on the verge of entering the finishing room for its final stage of painting.
This year at the Canadian National Festival 2023 attendees received the Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Avalokiteshvara and teachings on compassion with Gen Kelsang Samten.
This weekend, the KMC Valencia inaugurated the new urban temple on Turia Street with a special ceremony directed by Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, National Spiritual Director of Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and South Africa.
The main event, which brought together around 150 people, was a significant milestone for this Kadampa center that has organized activities in the city since the mid-1990s.
Gen Kelsang Sangden, National Spiritual Director of the NKT-IKBU for Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia and Chile, visited CMK Colombia in Bogota for the 2023 Colombian Dharma Celebration, granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Tara and gave commentary to the praises of the 21 Taras.
Universal compassion is the subject of this year’s US National Festival. Kadam Bridget Heyes, the NKT-IKBU National Spiritual Director for the United Kingdom and Ireland will grant an empowerment (blessing transmission) of Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara.
The journey of Kadam Dharma in France, from its humble beginnings in a small flat in Paris’ Latin Quarter in 1995, to its current widespread presence, is an inspiring story of faith and determination.
Gen Rigden, the resident teacher of KMC Deuachen in Sintra, is taking us on a temple tour of the hidden jewel of Portugal – the Fourth Temple for World Peace.
