The last few weeks witnessed much progress with the sixth Kadampa Temple for World Peace, from essential safety work, to rainwater drainage, to preparations for the ceiling, and the appearance of the first wall!
Today, Christmas Eve, we share a beautiful video made by a Kadampa student and a gallery of inspiring photos taken by other Kadampas as an offering to Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. Happy holidays everyone!
Last night, a community of Kadampa students gathered in the Mother Temple at Manjushri KMC for the first in-person puja since March. What a joyful and inspiring event it was!
Over the last few months, Manjushri KMC has been hard at work improving accommodation for visitors to the center, including 13 new and refurbished en-suite rooms in the main building, the Hayloft and the North Quadrangle. These developments and much more make this special place well worth a visit.
Last weekend, Spain hosted its first online Dharma Celebration! More than 400 people from all corners of Spain have participated in the event and enjoyed these precious teachings. Gen Kelsang Chokga granted the blessing empowerment of four-armed Avalokiteshvara and commentary to Avalokiteshvara sadhana and Powa ceremony.
During the 2020 French National Festival Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU, granted the empowerment of Buddha Shakyamuni and the commentary of The Liberating Prayer and inspiring teachings on Refuge.
Almost 200 people took part in the online German Festival this year with Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, live-streamed from KMC Edinburgh and Tharpaland KMC.
These last two weeks at the site of the sixth Kadampa Temple for World Peace have seen the entire steel structure coated in fire-retardant paint and a concrete deck laid above the veranda around the Temple.
This weekend the people of Portugal enjoyed their annual Dharma Celebration with their National Spiritual Director, Gen Kelsang Chokga, who granted the empowerment of Buddha Avalokiteshvara. A large assembly participated online, and a small group attended onsite.
Recently we posted a dramatic video of the steel frame for the new Kadampa Temple for World Peace being erected in Málaga. In the run up to that the team worked extremely hard to lay the new Temple floor. What an extraordinary day it was! The whole floor had to be laid in one uninterrupted session – 120 trucks of concrete – with everyone working late into the night!
General Spiritual Director
