Saturday February 29, 150 people came to the Temple at IKRC Grand Canyon for an Open House with a talk and meditations by Gen-la Kelsang Jampa and to witness a proclamation from Coconino County Board of Supervisors being read out in public.
Out of the blue, IKRC Grand Canyon recently received an invitation to attend a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Coconino County, where the center is located, on the 25th day of February. There, to their delight, they witnessed the Board approving the following proclamation welcoming the opening of IKRC Crand Canyon:
This last week witnessed the completion of two powerful six-week retreats that ran through January into the first half of February: the Mountain Retreat in IKRC Grand Canyon and the Snow Mountain Retreat at Kailash IRC.
No sooner had Gen-la Jampa returned to the USA from leading the retreat at Manjushri KMC, than he began a tour of centers in the eastern US before returning to IKRC Grand Canyon, where he is the Resident Teacher. Here we feature his visits to KMC Georgia and KMC Chicago.
In the previous post we featured the winter retreat currently underway in the first Temple for World Peace at KMC New York. In this post we catch up with the Mountain Retreat in the magnificent new Temple at IKRC Grand Canyon.
The Oral Instructions of Mahamudra retreat at KMC New York has reached the end of its first week. Practitioners have joined from all over the world: China, Australia, Canada, Ireland and Switzerland. Read their report.
KMC New York is preparing to welcome guests to the International Winter Retreats – ten week-long, stand-alone retreats with Gen Samten based on The Oral Instructions of Mahamudra in this magnificent center in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.
KMC Washington in Seattle hosted this year’s Northwest Dharma Celebration with Gen Kelsang Rigpa, National Spiritual Director for the Western United States. The whole event was filled with blessings!
KMC Washington DC hosted the Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration this year with Kadam Morten, National Spiritual Director for the eastern United States. It was attended by people from all over the mid-Atlantic region.
“Such a big city – 11 million people live here. They need Dharma eyes, wisdom eyes, to see truth, reality. They need to know, understand, how to make themselves happy, they need to know how to solve their daily problems and they need to know how to maintain good relationships with others and with their family, continually.” With these precious words in 2002 Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche sowed the seeds for KMC Hollywood to arise. See the amazing story of this center on the this month’s featured center page.
General Spiritual Director
