Thanks to the hard work of the community members and volunteers, KMC Bloomington in Indiana recently moved in their new premises, with a brand new book store.
Recently, after a short retreat, Gen Kelsang Ripga, the Resdient Teacher of KMC Los Angeles, returned home to grant the empowerment and give teachings on the purification practice of Buddha Vajrasattva.
Last weekend at KMC New York City, Kadam Morten Clausen, the Resident Teacher and National Spiritual Director of NKT for Eastern USA, taught a special course entitled Bringing Everybody to the Pure Land.
In the third video of this series, Gen Kelsang Rigpa reads his favorite passage from the book How to Understand the Mind and explains what it means for him.
This weekend, many Kadampa centers around the world took advantage of the Easter holidays to offer special events. And with Saturday being NKT Day it was also an occasion for special pujas and celebrations. In this first post on the events of the weekend we feature the mother center, Manjushri KMC in the UK and IKRC Grand Canyon in the US.
In the second video of this series, Gen Kelsang Demo reads her favorite passage from the book The New Eight Steps to Happiness and explains what it means for her.
People across Quebec recently enjoyed the empowerment of Buddha Maitreya granted by Gen Kelsang Chögyan, the Resident Teacher at KMC Montreal
as part of their 25 year anniversary. See also the featured center page with a special message from Gen-la Khyenrab.
Over the span of 10 weeks, 540 Kadampa from all over the world engaged in KMC New York’s first-ever virtual Winter Retreat. Thousands of hours of meditation were accumulated by the day, under the guidance of Gen Samten, who led over 140 sessions.
The International Kadampa Buddhist Union is a global spiritual family emanating from the heart of our precious Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. One of the many advantages of this union is that because the Dharma and spiritual direction are the same for all constituent centers it is easy for them to engage in cooperative ventures. Here we feature two recent collaborations.
This past weekend, KMC Canada hosted a special weekend event at which Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab, retired General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU and National Spiritual Director for Canada gave profound teachings on the ultimate nature of all phenomena. The event was open to everyone in Canada.
General Spiritual Director
