International Spring Festival 2024 - Centre Closed
Accomplishing the Great Wisdom Protection
International Spring Festival ～ May 24-29, 2024
Dorje Shugden Empowerment & Teachings on the Extensive Protector Puja ～ with Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director
Dorje Shugden is a Dharma Protector emanation of the Wisdom Buddha who averts obstacles to our spiritual practice and gathers necessary conditions for our attaining spiritual realizations.
During this Festival, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa will grant the Blessing Empowerment of Dorje Shugden. Then, based on instructions received from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, he will teach on the Melodious Drum practice, the ‘Fullling and Restoring Ritual’, which is usually performed monthly in Kadampa centres.
International Spring Festival 2024 - Centre Closed
Accomplishing the Great Wisdom Protection
International Spring Festival ～ May 24-29, 2024
Dorje Shugden Empowerment & Teachings on the Extensive Protector Puja ～ with Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director
Dorje Shugden is a Dharma Protector emanation of the Wisdom Buddha who averts obstacles to our spiritual practice and gathers necessary conditions for our attaining spiritual realizations.
During this Festival, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa will grant the Blessing Empowerment of Dorje Shugden. Then, based on instructions received from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, he will teach on the Melodious Drum practice, the ‘Fullling and Restoring Ritual’, which is usually performed monthly in Kadampa centres.
International Summer Festival 2024
Profound Teachings from Buddha's Heart
International Summer Festival
July 26 - August 10, 2024
Prajnaparamita Empowerment & Teachings on the Heart Sutra, Commentary to Blissful Path & The Uncommon Yoga of Inconceivability ～ with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, NKT-IKBU General Spiritual Director & Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director
(Portugal Festival 2013 Revisited)
In October 2013 Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche gave his last public teachings in Portugal. During these teachings, Geshe-la granted the empowerment of Great Mother Prajnaparamita, taught the Essence of Wisdom Sutra (Heart Sutra), which contains the heart essence of Buddha’s perfection of wisdom teachings, and gave commentaries to The Blissful Path, the condensed self-generation sadhana practice of Buddha Vajrayogini and to The Uncommon Yoga of Inconceivability, the special instruction of how to reach the Pure Land of Vajrayogini with our present human body.
During this Festival, these teachings will be revisited by Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong and Gen-la Kelsang Jampa. By helping us to take these teachings deep into our hearts, we can attain deep experience of them, thus transforming our lives and drawing us closer to attaining full enlightenment.
International Fall Festival 2024
The Gateway to Highest Yoga Tantra
International Fall Festival ～ Oct 25 - Nov 1, 2024
Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerments of Heruka & Vajrayogini & Commentary with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, NKT-IKBU General Spiritual Director
As Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche explains in Modern Buddhism, the gateway through which we enter Tantra is receiving a Tantric empowerment. This bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. In this Festival Gen-la Dekyong will grant the empowerments of the principal Deities of Highest Yoga Tantra – Heruka and Vajrayogini – and introduce their essential practices.
This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to receive from Gen-la Dekyong the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings of Heruka and Vajrayogini according to the Ganden oral lineage, which is the special heart treasure of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
International Fall Festival
Developing a Pure Heart
NKT-IKBU International Fall Festival
At the Fall Festival 2023, which will be held October 6-12 at the Kadampa Temple for World Peace in Málaga Spain, Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab, retired General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU, will grant the empowerment of Medicine Buddha and give teachings on the eleven reversals.
In spiritually degenerate times one of the most important practices is that of Medicine Buddha. The teachings on the eleven reversals reveal the essence of Buddha’s teachings of Sutra and Tantra.
By integrating the teachings on the eleven reversals into our daily life, and through relying on Medicine Buddha, we can free our mind from the inner poison of the delusions that are the root of all suffering. We will then be in a position to help others through healing actions.
The Festival is set in the beautiful location of the World Peace Temple in Spain. It is open to everyone and suitable for all levels of experience.
Attending in-person and online: In addition to attending the live in-person event, there will also be an opportunity to join the Festival online. All online sessions will be streamed 48 hours after the live session.
International Summer Festival
Kadam Lamrim of Sutra & Tantra
The Complete Path to Enlightenment
International Summer Festival with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong & Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab
The sequence of teachings at the Sumer Festival 2023 will cover all the essential practices of Kadam Lamrim of Sutra & Tantra. In the first week Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab will teach the Lamrim of Sutra which is regarded as an essential prerequisite for receiving tantric empowerments and teachings. These special teachings of Buddha were arranged by Atisha and present the essential practices of Dharma for all levels of practitioners from the initial scope to the great scope. These teachings are immensely practically and easy to apply to our modern daily life. By relying on these teachings we can guide ourself along the path to liberation from suffering and eventually to full enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings. These teachings are open to everyone regardless of previous experience.
In the second week Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong will present the essential Highest Yoga Tantra practices of the New Kadampa Tradition. She will begin by granting the empowerment of Heruka Body Mandala and Vajrayogini and then give brief essential commentaries to these practices. By engaging in these practices sincerely with a mind of faith we can swiftly overcome ordinary appearance and conception in this life and attain the highest state of all - the union of enlightenment. To receive the commentaries you must have previously received the empowerments.
International Spring Festival
The Source of Happiness & Goodness
International Spring Festival with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU
‘‘The Liberating Prayer is not an ordinary prayer – It is like a text and has profound meaning. All Lamrim teachings – renunciation, bodhichitta, and correct view of emptiness are included in this prayer. I can say very few people understand the Liberating Prayer. It definitely needs verbal commentary by a Teacher. If we understand and contemplate its meaning - it is the best method to develop faith in Buddha and his teachings, which is our spiritual life and the root of all Dharma realizations.’’ - Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
At this Festival Gen-la Dekyong will share a special transmission and blessing of the meaning of this prayer that she received directly from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. She will also bring together commentary Venerable Geshe-la has given on the meaning of different verses of this prayer over many years. There will also be an opportunity to engage in a powerful and immensely meaningful International Refuge Vow Ceremony with the worldwide Kadampa family. The Festival is open to everyone and suitable for all levels of experience.