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!

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.

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.

As we will see, this is a busy weekend with Festivals, Celebrations and other auspicious events happening throughout the world including Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Mexico, Austria, and the Nordic region, and we will be providing reports on each of these over the next few days. We begin with this early report from the Nordic region: