Celebrating kindness

On NKT Day the community at KMC Madrid La Sierra illustrated the core values of NKT by welcoming everyone, including families and children, to their newly acquired center surrounded by the stunning Sierra de Guadarrama. Children were invited to join many games and activities including a theater performance of The Story of Aṅgulimāla. There were also workshops on malas and ecological soap, and teenagers and adults could enjoy walks in the mountains.

Abiding in the Middle Way at IKRC Grand Canyon

How wonderful that 300 people in-person and online had the great good fortune to listen to such teachings this weekend from Gen-la Khyenrab and engage in retreat guided by him at IKRC Grand Canyon! The teaching was on Saturday, NKT Day, and the retreat over the following days.

Gen Eupame visits centers in south of France

In the last two weeks of March, Gen Eupame, National Spiritual Director of NKT for France made two visits to the south of France to give teachings at KMC Vajravarahi in Toulouse and KMC Vajrassatva in Montpellier.

Celebrating an extraordinary year

The first Saturday in April is NKT Day, a special occasion on which we celebrate the extraordinary deeds of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche in creating and nourishing the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union.

27 ~ The golden vajras appear!

Just as the work on the copper roof nears completion, the 37 golden vajras are placed atop the Temple and the doorways are made ready for the deer and Dharma wheels to be placed in position. Watch this video and discover how important the opening of the Temple will be.

A new center opens in Dublin

Dublin’s newest meditation space opened this weekend! It was such a wonderful weekend at the official opening of the beautiful new Tara Kadampa Meditation Centre, Templeogue Village, Dublin. Our National Spiritual Director Kadam Bridget Heyes gave such inspiring teachings and guided some beautiful meditations. We were so delighted to see friends old and new from all around Ireland drop in for the weekend.

Ten German cities meet Kadam Dharma

For two weeks Gen Ananda, National Spiritual Director of NKT for Germany, travelled throughout the country giving public talks on “Buddhas Weg zum Glück” (Buddha’s path to happiness) in some major cities such as Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Wiesbaden, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Essen and Hamburg.

Open doors, open heart

KMC Barcelona just hosted a wonderful Open Day including Prayers for World peace for local people combined with a traditional Catalan meal. For many this was their first chance to experience Kadam Dharma

A weekend of blessings

Recently, around 100 fortunate students at KMC Paris received the empowerment of Buddha Amitayus from the Resident Teacher Gen Tonpa. The following weekend, Gen Losang granted the blessing empowerment of Green Tara to a full house at Tara IKRC.

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