This weekend the people of Portugal enjoyed their annual Dharma Celebration with their National Spiritual Director, Gen Kelsang Chokga, who granted the empowerment of Buddha Avalokiteshvara. A large assembly participated online, and a small group attended onsite.
Recently we posted a dramatic video of the steel frame for the new Kadampa Temple for World Peace being erected in Málaga. In the run up to that the team worked extremely hard to lay the new Temple floor. What an extraordinary day it was! The whole floor had to be laid in one uninterrupted session – 120 trucks of concrete – with everyone working late into the night!
We share the photographs of how we’re enjoying the amazing 2020 Mexico Dharma Celebration in different parts of the country.
Due to the current situation, the annual Austrian Dharma Celebration in Vienna was held for the first time as a purely online event on November 16-18. Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, National Spiritual Director for Italy, Austria and Switzerland, granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Maitreya, the Buddha of loving kindness.
A wonderful new development. Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has requested the centre to become an International Kadampa Retreat Center. The Resident Teacher, Gen Losang Kelsang, has many years of experience leading retreats. Stand by for more information.
With the title, A Vision of a Pure Land, the sixteenth German National Festival, Nov 27- Dec 1, will be taught by Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang online in German.
In the last report from the three South American Festivals last weekend, today we cover the Festival in Brasil, where Gen-la Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU granted empowerment and teachings of Je Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden.
The second South American Festival report comes from the Chile Festival, where Gen-la Dekyong also gave teachings and empowerment of Je Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden.
This weekend saw three empowerments in South America, with Gen-la Dekong online from Manjushri KMC granting teachings and empowerments on Je Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden. Here is a report on the first – the Argentina Festival.
The construction of the sixth Temple for World Peace in Málaga Spain is progressing rapidly, with the steel frame already in place! Now work begins on the roof.
General Spiritual Director
