German National Festival in November 2024
Nov 14, 2024
With construction work beginning soon on the sixth Kadampa Temple for World Peace in Málaga, Spain, the Kadampa Art Studio in the UK has already started casting statues and adornments for the new Temple. This week witnessed the principal Buddha statue being cast
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Volunteering in the Kadampa Art Studio at Manjushri KMC, UK, is a truly meaningful use of human life, helping to create statues and adornments for modern Kadampa Temple around the world.
This weekend KMC Perth took part in the local Perth Festival who organised a street party along 10km length of Highway. Thousands of people attended from different parts of Australia and the world to pay tribute to a local hero Bon Scott, the former lead singer of the ACDC who died 40 years ago.
‘In the place where the construction of the 6th Kadampa Temple for World Peace will begin very soon, our beloved Resident Teacher and National Spiritual Director of Spain and Portugal, Gen Kelsang Chokga, transmitted the powerful blessing empowerment of Medicine Buddha.’
During the Brazilian Dharma Celebration, 450 people received the precious blessings of Buddha Vajrasattva, the Buddha of Purification.
Saturday February 29, 150 people came to the Temple at IKRC Grand Canyon for an Open House with a talk and meditations by Gen-la Kelsang Jampa and to witness a proclamation from Coconino County Board of Supervisors being read out in public.
Saturday morning Gen-la Dekyong granted the blessing empowerment of Buddha Shakyamuni and in the afternoon explained the meaning of the Wheel of Life, while those present enjoyed meditations guided by Gen Tharpa