Recently, around 100 fortunate students at KMC Paris received the empowerment of Buddha Amitayus from the Resident Teacher Gen Tonpa. The following weekend, Gen Losang granted the blessing empowerment of Green Tara to a full house at Tara IKRC.
Recently, the Nordic Festival 2022 took place online hosted by KMC Stockholm. Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Prajnaparamita and teachings on overcoming obstacles and meditation on emptiness.
KMC Málaga recently held a special event at which Gen Kelsang Chokga, National Spiritual Director of Spain and Portugal, granted the empowerment of Great Mother Prajnaparamita.
The 2022 Snow Mountain Retreat (The Blissful Path to Keajra Heaven) led by Gen Kelsang Devi recently ended at Kailash IRC. The retreat concluded with the first Vajrayogini puja to take place at Kailash IRC.
The construction phase of the Temple building is nearly completed and work on landscaping the grounds is well under way. Now preparations are being made for the teams of artists to take over adorning the Temple inside and out.
KMC Deuachen in Sintra Portugal recently held a special event at which the Resident Teacher, Gen Kelsang Rigden, granted empowerment and teachings on the practice of Thousand-armed Avalokiteshevara. The meditations were led by Maria João Caldeira.
Recently the Gen Lochani, Resident Teacher at KMC Barcelona, took part in a discussion at the College of Arts & Design in Barcelona. The subject was how to help people of the millennial generation understand and solve their problems. Gen Lochani shared the Buddhist perspective and explained how meditation can help.
After taking possession of their wonderful new property in the mountains of Sierra de Guadarrama, the most popular natural site in Madrid and preparing it to open to the public, KMC Madrid recently held a special weekend at which the Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Tongmo granted the first empowerment in the new property.
In a sign that we are emerging from the pandemic restrictions and returning to normal operations – but with renewed vigor – many centers held full length in-person retreats over January. And some finished with fire pujas and self initiation pujas on site. Here we feature three of these – each with a remarkable story to tell.
Recently 120 people attended the Southern German Dharma Celebration at which Gen Kelsang Ananda, National Spiritual Director of Germany, granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Amitayus.
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