Classes & Retreats
Volunteer Appreciation Movie Night with The Life of Buddha
Calling all KMC Maryland Volunteers, please join in as we celebrate you and enjoy pizza and a meaningful movie, The Life of Buddha.
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life---Letting Go of What Others Think
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life -- Letting Go of What Others Think
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Learning to Let Go: Letting Go of Insecurity & Learning to Live Lightly
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Learning to Let Go: Letting Go of Insecurity & Learning to Live Lightly
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Learning to Let Go: Letting Go of Insecurity & Learning to Live Lightly
Meditation Class with Prayers for World Peace
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! This class includes guided meditations, teachings on creating inner and outer peace, and chanted prayers for world peace.
Meditations for Modern Life
Learning to Let Go: Letting Go of Insecurity & Learning to Live Lightly
Saturday Retreat: Purification in Daily Life- The Practice of Buddha Vajrasattva
Through the kindness of Vajrasattva, the Buddha of Purification, we have the opportunity to overcome our negative actions (or karma) by sincerely applying the four opponent powers. In this retreat, we will gain experience of how to apply these powers, and by doing so, begin to remove both the causes of future suffering and obstacles to our spiritual development. We will also learn how to transform our daily activities into purification practice.
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Taking charge of your Holiday Experience: Develop a positive mind for the holidays (gratitude)
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic:Taking Charge of Your Holiday Experience: Develop a positive mind for the holidays (gratitude)
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Taking Charge of Your Holiday Experience: Develop a Positive Mind for the Holidays (gratitude)
Meditation Class with Prayers for World Peace
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! This class includes guided meditations, teachings on creating inner and outer peace, and chanted prayers for world peace.
Meditations for Modern Life
Taking Charge of Your Holiday Experience: Develop a positive mind for the holidays (gratitude)
Mala Making Workshop
Learn how to make a mala (Buddhist prayer beads), and make a full length mala of your own! Kelsang Gyaltsen will also be explaining how to use a mala to count mantras.
Holiday Shopping & Community Potluck Lunch
Join us for our potluck lunch & holiday shopping event where we will have food, fun, and free gift wrapping!
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Taking charge of your Holiday Experience: Overcome the holiday blues (creating new ways to celebrate)
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic:Taking Charge of Your Holiday Experience: Overcoming the holiday blues (creating new ways to celebrate)
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Taking Charge of Your Holiday Experience: Overcoming the holiday blues (creating new ways to celebrate)
Meditation Class with Prayers for World Peace
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! This class includes guided meditations, teachings on creating inner and outer peace, and chanted prayers for world peace.
Meditations for Modern Life
Taking Charge of Your Holiday Experience: Overcoming holiday blues (creating new ways to celebrate)
Highest Yoga Tantra Practice Class
This event is open only to those who have already received Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments.
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Taking charge of your Holiday Experience: Ending Family Drama
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Holiday Prayers for a Peaceful World
Join us for a special opportunity to gather in the beautiful Kadampa Temple for a holiday service about bringing more and more love, compassion and joy into your life and the lives of those around you.
New Year’s Eve Party: Living With Joy
Enjoy a meaningful and festive New Year’s Eve celebration in this joyful community! The evening includes vegetarian hors d’oeuvres, a guided meditation, prayers for compassion in the world and a fun raffle to celebrate the end of our annual fundraiser.
New Year’s Day Silent Retreat: Meditations to Nourish Your Body & Mind
Start your year off right! Refresh your body and mind with guided meditations and a day of silence, and develop mental peace to fortify yourself for the new year.
Guru Sumati Buddha Heruka Retreat
Join us for this special mini retreat where you will be able to deepen your faith and reliance upon Guru Sumati Buddha Heruka following the oral instructions that Gen-la Dekyong received directly from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Vajrayogini Self-Initiation
This event is open only to those who have already received Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments.
Eight Steps to Lasting Happiness: Meditations on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
These 8 meditations are the specific steps for eliminating negativity in our mind and increasing our capacity for inner peace and happiness. As we become familiar with these meditations, our mind becomes stronger and experiences longer and longer periods of peace and happiness.
Meditations for Modern Life
Learning to Let Go: Letting Go of Insecurity & Learning to Live Lightly
Meditations for Modern Life
Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life -- Letting Go of Negative Self Image
Meditation Class with Prayers for World Peace
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! This class includes guided meditations, teachings on creating inner and outer peace, and chanted prayers for world peace.
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life: Letting Go of Negative Self Image
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life -- Letting Go of Negative Self Image
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life---Letting Go of Negative Self Image/The Wisdom of Meditation
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
The Wisdom of Meditation: with Guest Teacher Gen Chodor
If we don't know how to meditate correctly and effectively, our meditation practice will lack power. In this retreat, Gen Chodor will share invaluable instructions provided by the accomplished meditation master, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
Through putting these instructions into practice, we will become qualified meditators with the ability to guide ourselves and others effectively on the path to pure and lasting happiness.
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life -- Letting Go of Painful Experiences
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life: Letting Go of Painful Experiences
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life -- Letting Go of Painful Experiences
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life---Letting Go of Painful Experiences
Temple Beautification Day
Join the volunteer team as we clean up today, in preparation for the guest teacher retreat the following weekend. What a great opportunity to cherish your world peace temple!
Meditations for Modern Life
Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life -- Letting Go of Attachment to Things
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life: Letting Go of Attachment to Things
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Learning to Let Go: Getting Rid of Negativity in Your Life
Meditation Class with Prayers for World Peace
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! This class includes guided meditations, teachings on creating inner and outer peace, and chanted prayers for world peace.
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Six Ways to Build A Happy Life: Concentration in our Busy Life
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Six Ways to Build a Happy Life: Concentration in our Busy Life
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.
Meditations for Modern Life, followed by Sunday Social
This week’s topic is: Six Ways to Build a Happy Life: Concentration in our Busy Life
Mandala Practice Workshop: Creating a Pure World
Making mandala offerings is a scientific method to attain the Pure Land of a Buddha. Using a mandala kit is an essential Kadampa practice. This practical workshop will focus on learning how to make mandala offerings with a kit as well as in our mind. We will also learn the meaning behind mandala offerings.
All About Meditation: Start or Strengthen Your Meditation Practice
This class is designed to help you start a meditation practice, or improve your daily practice. Learn to meditate in an authentic way that has been used for centuries to reduce mental and physical suffering and increase the power of the mind, resulting in greater peace and happiness.
Garden Cherishing Day
Please join in to help us keep the World Peace Gardens maintained and beautiful!
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Six Ways to Build a Happy Life: The Joy of Benefiting Others
Meditation Class with Prayers for World Peace
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! This class includes guided meditations, teachings on creating inner and outer peace, and chanted prayers for world peace.
Meditations for Modern Life
This week’s topic is Six Ways to Build A Happy Life: The Joy of Benefiting Others
Meditation Classes in Columbia
This class is in Columbia, MD, and will include guided meditations and talk on the series topic: Six Ways to Build a Happy Life: The Joy of Benefiting Others
Children’s Meditation Class
This class is for children ages 6-12, and is held at the same time as Meditations for Modern Life.