Kadam Dharma in North America

Over the last two weeks, Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab, NKT National Spiritual Director of Canada and retired GSD, led a sublime retreat on the generation and completion stages of Vajrayogini.

“At KMC New York City we have recently finished the first of five, week-long City Retreats. In the first week, with Kadam Morten Clausen, more than 300 people signed up to participate, both online and in person.”

Every year the IKRC Grand Canyon holds a special winter retreat. Venerable Geshe-la gave this annual retreat the name Mountain Retreat and blessed it.

With the start of this new year, many fortunate people from everywhere around Canada have been gathering online for the first part of our special winter retreat: Entering the Pure Land – The Kadampa Way of Life.

This weekend at KMC New York Gen Samten granted the empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani.

Boston has the fourth most colleges of any U.S. city, and KMC Boston has been making connections! Last winter and spring Gen Khedrub, the Resident Teacher at KMC Boston and himself a Harvard alumnus, taught a series of meditation classes for the students, faculty and staff at Harvard University.

More than 75 students gathered from all around the Pacific Northwest for a magical Dharma Celebration at KMC Washington last weekend. This year, Gen Kelsang Rigpa, Western US National Spiritual Director and Resident Teacher at KMC Los Angeles, granted the blessing empowerment Buddha Maitreya and gave teachings on Loving Kindness to participants both in-person and online.

The blessings of the Heart Sutra at Thanksgiving Over the holiday weekend Gen-la Jampa gave complete commentary to the Heart Sutra to 100 people, both online and in-person. The IKRC Grand Canyon hosted in the World Peace Temple Sangha from California, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Online attendees were from Canada, the UK, Mexico, New … Read more

KMC Los Angeles walks for World Peace and KMC DC is qualified as a safe space

On October 13, the contractors broke ground on the new accommodations and dining room building at KMC New York. However, kind Kadampa volunteers started work well before then. In order to prepare the area for the contractors to start their work, they had to take up the road grid and gravel that was running through the building site.