Kadampa International Retreat Centres – Places of Deep Insight
Jan 17, 2025
The online Fall Festival page is now live, offering everything you need to support your practice during and after the Festival including the brand new sadhana, The Path to Heaven, which will be taught at the Festival.
The Festival Shop is now open. Here is a list of the books and prayers that will be used during the Summer Festival all of which can be purchased from the Festival Shop.
This month’s featured book is Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully, which provides inspiring guidelines for helping us to live a happy and meaningful life, come to terms with our own death in a positive way and help others who are dying.
This month’s featured book is The New Meditation Handbook from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
This month’s featured book is Universal Compassion. A truly inspiring book with perfect solutions for contemporary problems. Discover more about this extraordinary gift from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
With the International Spring Festival less than two weeks away, now is the time to stock up on all the essentials for your study and practice as well as special items and gifts for yourself and others.
Karla from Mexico reviews How to Transform Your Life by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche and tells how this powerful book has impacted her life.
This month’s featured book is The Bodhisattva Vow. In this welcome guide to compassionate living, Geshe Kelsang explains in detail how to take and keep the Bodhisattva vow, how to purify negative minds, and how to practise the Bodhisattva’s actions of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration and wisdom.
In the third video of this series, Gen Kelsang Rigpa reads his favorite passage from the book How to Understand the Mind and explains what it means for him.
In the second video of this series, Gen Kelsang Demo reads her favorite passage from the book The New Eight Steps to Happiness and explains what it means for her.