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 MoreKMC 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.
Jan 3 – Feb 13, 2020 marks another milestone for NKT-IKBU when Kadam Morten will lead the first annual Mountain Retreat in the new Temple at IKRC Grand Canyon, which was consecrated at the Fall Festival September 2019. An event not to be missed!
This weekend Midwesterners gathered from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and beyond for the US Midwest Dharma Celebration 2019. Over 80 fortunate ones enjoyed the blessing empowerment of Green Tara with Gen Kelsang Demo, the US Midwest National Spiritual Director, at KMC Madison.
This weekend KMC Canada hosted the Ontario Dharma Celebration in Toronto with Gen-la Khyenrab. Gen-la granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Vajrasattva, who is a manifestation of the completely pure mind of all the Buddhas.
After the Fall Festival, Gen-la Jampa, Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU and Resident Teacher at IKRC Grand Canyon, visited KMC Hollywood, where he had been invited to lead the post festival retreat.
The post Festival retreat at KMC Florida was given by Kadam Bridget Heyes and was followed by a workshop on drawing the face of Buddha given by Kadam Chris Heyes
After the Fall Festival, hundreds of people dispersed to Kadampa centers around the world to take part in post-festival retreats led by Senior Teachers. Reports from the retreats are starting to come in – today KMC Arizona in Tuscon.
Last week the community at IKRC prepared and filled all the statues to install in the shrine of the new Temple
