Spring 2008
US Kadampa Festival
Relying Upon Dorje Shugden
With Deputy Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition,
Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab
at Kadampa Meditation Center
Glen Spey, New York
April 24-29, 2008
Be part of the largest Kadampa gathering in North America this year, the 2008 US Kadampa Buddhist Festival!
Everyone, whether new to Buddhism or a longtime student, can appreciate the special magic of this annual event. The Festival is a joyful gathering where we can receive and explore Buddha’s timeless teachings in the company of spiritual friends from around the country. In the inspiring environment of the World Peace Temple, we can easily take new understandings and insights deep into our heart. Listening to clear, practical advice and meditating on it together, we lay the foundation for lasting peace and happiness.
This year, please join us in a beautiful ceremony to receive the empowering blessings of our Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden, and teachings on the practice of Wishfulfilling Jewel.
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Spring Festival
Empowerment & Commentary to the Practice of Buddha Vajrapani
With Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
at Manjushri KMC
England
May 23-26, 2008
During the Festival, Venerable Geshe Kelsang will give the empowerment and commentary to the practice of Buddha Vajrapani.
Vajrapani is a Buddha who embodies the spiritual power of all enlightened beings. His name, which means ‘Vajra Holder’, indicates that he is the lineage holder of Buddha’s Vajrayana teachings in general and of Highest Yoga Tantra in particular, and that he has a special power to destroy delusions – the true enemies of living beings.
Through his blessings and inspiration we can gain the inner strength to face our daily problems and sufferings, and to eliminate our delusions, especially self-grasping ignorance, which continually rob us of inner peace and destroy our happiness.
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Summer Festival
Empowerment of Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara and Teachings on Universal Compassion
With Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
at Manjushri KMC
England
July 25 - August 9, 2008
The Summer Festival is a special spiritual holiday when we receive extensive teachings from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
During this, the seventeenth, Summer Festival, Venerable Geshe Kelsang will grant the empowerment of Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, and give teachings based on Universal Compassion, his commentary to the famous text on training the mind in love and compassion, Training the Mind in Seven Points.
The empowerment and teachings are open to everyone.
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Fall Festival
Empowerment of Prajnaparamita & commentary to the self generation practice of Great Mother Prajnaparamita
With Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Paris, France
Oct. 31st - Nov. 7, 2008
During the Festival, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso will grant the empowerment of the Great Mother Prajnaparamita for the very first time in the West. Prajnaparamita is the embodiment of the Wisdom Truth Body of all the Buddhas, the Great Wisdom Mother who gives birth to all enlightened beings.
By relying upon her and engaging in her practice, which includes reciting the Heart Sutra, we can develop the inner strength to overcome all outer and inner hindrances to attaining pure happiness, as well as all obstacles that hinder our progress to liberation and enlightenment.
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