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!
Due to the current situation, the annual Austrian Dharma Celebration in Vienna was held for the first time as a purely online event on November 16-18. Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, National Spiritual Director for Italy, Austria and Switzerland, granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Maitreya, the Buddha of loving kindness.
A wonderful new development. Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has requested the centre to become an International Kadampa Retreat Center. The Resident Teacher, Gen Losang Kelsang, has many years of experience leading retreats. Stand by for more information.
With the title, A Vision of a Pure Land, the sixteenth German National Festival, Nov 27- Dec 1, will be taught by Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang online in German.
The construction of the sixth Temple for World Peace in Málaga Spain is progressing rapidly, with the steel frame already in place! Now work begins on the roof.
As we will see, this is a busy weekend with Festivals, Celebrations and other auspicious events happening throughout the world including Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Mexico, Austria, and the Nordic region, and we will be providing reports on each of these over the next few days. We begin with this early report from the Nordic region:
This year at KMC Madrid, we feel very lucky because we celebrate 25 years of Dharma Kadam in Madrid. On the occasion of this anniversary, we have organized a very special event in appreciation of the kindness of our founder, the venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
Today we feature two post Fall Festival retreats in Spain – one last week and one next weekend
Today we received two pieces of good news from Tharpaland KMC in Germany – retreats and a Temple!
General Spiritual Director
