The Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration 2022 was held at KMC Washington DC. Kadam Morten, National Spiritual Director for Eastern USA. Kadam Morten granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Vajrapani and gave powerful teachings on overcoming obstacles.
After taking possession of their wonderful new property in the mountains of Sierra de Guadarrama, the most popular natural site in Madrid and preparing it to open to the public, KMC Madrid recently held a special weekend at which the Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Tongmo granted the first empowerment in the new property.
In a sign that we are emerging from the pandemic restrictions and returning to normal operations – but with renewed vigor – many centers held full length in-person retreats over January. And some finished with fire pujas and self initiation pujas on site. Here we feature three of these – each with a remarkable story to tell.
At the suggestion of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, yesterday a special Prayers for World Peace was held at Manjushri KMC led by Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, the General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU, to pray for peace in the world at this time.
Gen Kelsang Sangden, National Spiritual Director for Mexico, recently visited southern Mexico where she gave a number of talks and joined people from various centers on a group retreat called The Power to Change. The retreat was hosted by KBC Menlha in Chiapas, Mexico.
The Welsh Dharma Celebration 2022 recently took place in the midst of storms and wild weather at KMC Wales in Swansea.
Recently 120 people attended the Southern German Dharma Celebration at which Gen Kelsang Ananda, National Spiritual Director of Germany, granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Amitayus.
With the dangerous situation now developing in the world, at Venerable Geshe-la’s suggestion there will be a special Prayers for World Peace on Sunday February 27 at 10.30 am UK time with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU.
Recently, Gen Lochani granted the blessing empowerment of Amitayus at KMC Barcelona to a fortunate group of practitioners.
With the relaxation of COVID restrictions this week there are now more places for people to attend the special course in-person in the Temple March 4-6.
General Spiritual Director
