After a 3-year wait since the last gathering at the Brazil Temple for the National Festival, this year people from all over Brazil reunited with old friends to receive profound blessings and teachings, enjoy working and laughing together and experience directly how wonderful it is to attend a Kadampa Festival in person.
Tharpaland’s community offers popular morning prayer services to benefit the local community, guided tours and meditations in the afternoon; to learn about the history of the place but also to get a taste for its nature and function nowadays.
With deep joy and gratitude, members of the community of Durban KMC spent the day yesterday cleaning and preparing the ‘New Meditation Room’ for the arrival of the Buddhas statue that began their journey from the Kadampa Art Studio to us.
For many Kadampa centers, January is a retreat month and retreats of various levels and duration are organised at centers around the world. Here is a selection of the longer ones:
After giving a powerful public talk at KMC Berlin, Gen Ananda is now heading for Vienna and Lubiljana where he will give further public talks and weekend courses
At KMC LA, one of the most joyful events each year is the annual Walk for World Peace, a day of fun and fundraising. All funds raised go to support KMC LA’s efforts to help people in the Los Angeles area develop peaceful minds, increasing inner peace and thereby world peace.
This weekend Kadampa Meditation Centre Argentina hosted the seventh National Dharma Festival with practitioners from Argentina and Uruguay.
Last weekend, many people – new practitioners and more experienced Kadampas alike – gathered together from all over the UK to listen to Gen la Thubten’s powerful explanations of how we can use Dharma to solve all our daily problems and make ourself happy all the time.
This weekend, Kadampas around the world celebrated International Temples Day with joyful gatherings.
In particular we reflected on the extraordinary auspicious deeds of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche to facilitate the growth and development of Kadampa Buddhism throughout the world.
In the annual Refuge retreat guided by Gen Lochani at the KMC in Barcelona the students have been able to savor that the best way to love oneself is to enter the path of Buddhism, for our own sake and that for the sake of others.
General Spiritual Director
