News from the post Fall Festival retreats ~ Part 2
Nov 16, 2024
The people of Colombia just enjoyed their first ever Kadampa Dharma Celebration. Gen Kelsang Sangden, their National Spiritual Director granted the empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa and gave teachings on the practice. It was a great success with 92 people attending from all over Colombia and beyond.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dharma centers and communities working together harmoniously to give and receive teachings, in-person and on-line, are truly objects of rejoicing. Here we feature a center where the students were able to gather in person to receive empowerment and teachings this weekend as Gen Kelsang Rinchung granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani at KMC Argentina.
In a couple of weeks, Colombia will enjoy its first ever National Kadampa Dharma Celebration hosted by KMC Colombia . It will be an excellent opportunity to gather Kadampa Buddhist practitioners and supporters from all over Colombia and neighboring countries.
Gen Kelsang Mudita, Brasil National Spiritual Director of the NKT-IKBU and Resident Teacher at KMC Mahabodhi in São Paulo, recently granted the empowerment of Buddha Manjushri at KMC Mahabodhi. The event was broadcast live to 97 participants.
KMC Chile recently made a wonderful video demonstrating the purpose and activities of their center. See what they said about the video:
KMC Argentina is emerging from lockdown and re-opening to the public. Here they report on their preliminaries retreat and a new meditation room in the Dharma house.
The community at KMC Brasil share the magic of working with their volunteers.
“At the Temple for World Peace in Brasil, we are very fortunate to share our lives with many who come to join us for varying lengths of time as volunteers and so forth. While they are with us we practice together, benefit others together, and most important, enjoy our precious human life in extremely meaningful ways.”
KMC Chile has just completed a major remodelling of their premises in Santiago, creating a blessed and beautiful place for the whole of Chile
Enjoy this beautiful video in which Kadampas in Colombia celebrate four years of Kadam Dharma in their country
This Sunday, Mexican Kadampas enjoyed an online reunion with Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, retired Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT and previous National Spiritual Director of Mexico, when Gen-la gave a public class hosted by KMC Mexico entitled What is Success?