Why we enjoy the Intensive Teacher Training program
Jul 16, 2025
As the ITTP enters its final week, we hear from some of the Resident Teachers about why they love this program and how both they and their centers benefit from it.
The Tharpa Festival Shop is an essential part of the International Summer Festival 2025, offering everything you need to support your spiritual practice during the Festival and beyond. It’s an opportunity to purchase all Festival-related Tharpa items— including books, art, and sadhanas—alongside new and updated releases.
Over two weeks, the Festival will emphasise teachings and meditations on Advice from Atisha’s Heart from our two most senior Teachers. For the first time, all of Venerable Geshe-la’s oral transmissions on the verses will be brought together, including his special advice on how to engage in retreat on this text.
Our editors select their favorite photographs from around the world for the months of June to July.
Kadampa events for families are taking place all over the world, providing a wonderful opportunity for young minds to engage in meaningful and enriching activities. These events aim to cultivate positive minds, inner peace, and a sense of community among children. Here we’re focusing on recent events in Spain..
Liberating weekend retreats where participants find inner peace: Heruka KMC, London at Kailash IRC in Switzerland, and KMC Vancouver & Tara KBC in Canada.
Read about some other recent activities organized by Kadampa centers around the world.
In this post we hear from KMC Durban (South Africa), KMC Madrid (Spain), Heruka KMC (US), KMC Vancouver (Canada), KMC Sheffield and Heruka KMC (UK)
At the end of June each year, Resident Teachers from around the world typically gather together at Manjushri KMC – our mother center – in Ulverston, UK for the Intensive Teacher Training Program (ITTP).
A retreat can be a deeply moving experience, providing an opportunity to find inner peace, gain profound insights and energize our practice. It can help us return to our normal lives with a fresh outlook and a renewed sense of purpose. Here, retreats in Northants (UK), Cordoba (Argentina) and Ottawa (Canada).
Through various types of events organized by Dharma Centers, many people can create the potentials to attain liberation in the future. Here are some activities of Tharpa Sweden, Heruka KMC Fort Collins, KMC Trois-Rivières and KMC Mexico.