This weekend, over a hundred people received the blessing empowerment of Buddha Amitayus from Gen Kelsang Chogka, Resident Teacher at KMC Spain and National Spiritual Director for Spain and Portugal. See some wonderful photos and read what they had to say.
This Saturday at KMC Deuachen in Portugal, Gen Rigden granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Maitreya to a fortunate group of Kadampa disciples both gathered in person and on-line.
This weekend, over 600 people tuned into the online weekend course at Manjushri KMC on refuge with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU. On Saturday, in the Kadampa Temple for World Peace, Gen-la presided over a deeply inspiring and heartfelt Mahayana Refuge Ceremony, which was made all the more powerful by the fact that hundreds of people around the world shared in receiving the special blessings of refuge and making sincere dedications for the sake of all living beings.
After a long period of closure due to Covid, the three Kadampa centers in South Africa are beginning to open their doors and welcome back the public. But as you will see they did not waste the time they were closed.
Great news about a special event for the Nordic countries. March 19-21 Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab will teach the Nordic Kadampa Festival hosted by Nordic KMC Oslo.
KMC Barcelona recently hosted a special event at their retreat center in Montserrat at which Guen Lochani, the Resident Teacher, granted the empowerment of Thousand Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion.
KMC Chile recently made a wonderful video demonstrating the purpose and activities of their center. See what they said about the video:
IRC Menorca was founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche in 1981, the first Kadampa center to be established outside of the UK. 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the center. Enjoy this inspiring video of 40 years of Kadam Dharma on the island!
In a Public Talk Gen-la Khyenrab recently gave, he explains how to transform our mind from its present confused and self-centred state into perfect wisdom and compassion and thereby fulfil our deepest wishes for a happy life.
Kailash IRC have just completed their in-person Snow Mountain Retreat. For the first three weeks they engaged Vajrasattva purification practice and for the last three they practiced generation and completion stage of Heruka body mandala.
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