Last weekend Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU granted the blessing empowerment of Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara at this year’s French National Festival.
To celebrate NKT Day, KMC Montreal organized its first fundraiser, Walk for World Peace. They went to Mount Royal to walk for peace and enjoy the sunshine, meditation and picnic at the summit.
A special event organised by Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre, Penang, was hosted by a local Chinese Independent High School. Over 150 people attended, including the school principal, some of their teachers, and a large group of teenage students.
KMC Vancouver & KMC Fraser Valley held a joint retreat nestled in beautiful Bowen Island, BC, Canada.
The two Resident Teachers, Gen Kelsang Delek & Gen Kelsang Sanden, using the book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness, guided 40 participants into some of Buddhism’s most-loved teachings.
This Saturday special events were held at Kadampa centers worldwide in celebration of the annual NKT Day.
Boston has the fourth most colleges of any U.S. city, and KMC Boston has been making connections! Last couple of weeks Gen Khedrub, the Resident Teacher at KMC Boston and himself a Harvard alumnus, taught a series of meditation classes for the students, faculty and staff at Harvard University.
The first Saturday in April is set aside to commemorate the founding of NKT-IKBU by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche in 1991. Throughout his life Venerable Geshe-la worked tirelessly to lay the foundations for pure Kadampa Buddhism to flourish in this world for many generations to come, bringing inner peace to everyone.
“Everyone needs to know that happiness comes from a peaceful mind,” Western USA National Spiritual Director Gen Kelsang Rigpa explained to a full house last Sunday at Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona. He encouraged everyone to examine for themselves how developing a peaceful state of mind would change our life, giving several profound “mental experiments” for bringing happiness.
350 runners circumambulated the Temple at KMC Brazil as part of a 10 km run in celebration of the 164th anniversary of the town of Cabreúva.
150 people gathered in Santa Fe on Saturday for a public talk organised by KMC New Mexico with guest teacher Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, Resident Teacher at IKRC Grand Canyon and Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT. Gen-la shared practical methods for experiencing true happiness by changing the mind.
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