Day 7 ~ A Festival of Faith, Gratitude and Kindness
It’s the final day of the Festival, which finishes with two calm and focused retreat sessions enabling us to consolidate all we have received at this rich feast of Dharma.
Read MoreOver 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.
Last Saturday the fortunate students of KMC Georgia in Atlanta received the empowerment and commentary to the practice of Buddha Amitayus from their Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Norden.
In the first video of this series, Kadam Morten Clausen reads his favorite passage from the book How To Transform Your Life and explains what it means for him.
KMC Arizona and KMC Phoenix recently jointly hosted a special weekend during which Gen Kelsang Lingpur, Resident Teacher at KMC Arizona granted the empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa. Read what they said:
In a Public Talk Gen-la Khyenrab recently gave, he explains how to transform our mind from its present confused and self-centred state into perfect wisdom and compassion and thereby fulfil our deepest wishes for a happy life.
As the 2021 Mountain Retreat at IKRC Grand Canyon enters its final two weeks here is an inspiring update on this precious event with a brief video of Gen-la Jampa, Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT and Resident Teacher at the center, giving encouragement to the retreaters.
22 inches of snow did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the retreaters at KMC New York as they enjoyed the Vajrasattva purification retreat -part of their sequence of winter retreats.
The fourth Annual Mountain Retreat at IKRC Grand Canyon in Arizona just completed its first week. Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU and Resident Teacher at the center, is leading the retreat on the profound practice of Venerable Vajrayogini.
