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.

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.

Emptiness is the actual nature of reality. When we have the knowledge of emptiness we can begin to reduce our problems, eventually overcoming all of them permanently and then we can live in harmony with the actual nature of things. Everybody is welcome to hear these illuminating and meaningful teachings.

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.

Join us at our sister center in DC for special teachings from internationally known teacher Gen-la Kelsang Jampa!

Our thoughts create our world, so our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. How wonderful it would be to relate to ourself and our world in a way that allows happiness and joy to naturally arise from within.

What is your inner voice like? This retreat will help you to be much kinder to yourself and as a result you will also be more patient and kind with others. When we can look at our mistakes realistically without being harsh, we can learn more easily and be so much more effective in our work and personal relationships.

During this class, we’ll learn about the importance of having a shrine in our home for our daily meditation practice, and how to actually set up our shrine and make offerings.

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.

Take a break from the hustle-and-bustle of your daily life without leaving the city. During this meditation retreat, you will be guided in meditations on the nature of your own mind. By training in these meditations, your mind will become progressively more subtle and peaceful causing you to experience a profound inner stillness and tranquility.

Tormas are traditional food offerings (usually made of marzipan) that are offered to the Buddhas in various ritual practices such as empowerments, retreats and chanted prayers.

Learn about the various types of tormas and how to make them in a qualified manner according to the New Kadampa lineage.

Please join us for a vegetarian potluck! This is a great opportunity to get to know more people who are a part of our spiritual community, and to bring family or friends. Please consider staying for the 3pm Wishfulfilling Jewel Prayers with Offerings too!

To celebrate the very special occasions of Venerable Geshe-la’s birthday and Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day, we are offering a teaching and two sessions of retreat.

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.

Highest Yoga Tantra contains the specific meditation methods for attaining permanent liberation from suffering and the lasting pure peace of enlightenment. To practice these teachings, we must receive the empowerments of the Heruka Body Mandala and Vajrayogini.

These empowerments will be given this Fall at KMC Brazil. This class will help you understand in a more meaningful way why attaining these empowerments is essential for our spiritual development.

This art workshop is for everyone: no drawing experience required! It will be led by experienced Kadampa artist, Kelsang Gyaltsen.

Celebrate Buddha’s Enlightenment Day with a special fasting and purifying retreat. Please note, the 6:30am session is required in order to participate in the retreat (see exceptions in full description).

Although change is happening all the time, we often long for things to stay the same! However, when we embrace change our mind becomes less anxious and we feel more peaceful and content in our busy daily lives. In this retreat, we will learn practical tools for embracing change.

During this workshop, we will receive a teaching explaining the practice of the 35 Confession Buddhas, and then we will engage in the practice which includes making one prostration to each of the 35 Buddhas.

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.

At this event, Gen Chogden will explain and give the Refuge & Bodhisattva Vows. This afternoon’s teaching and ceremony will help us to become a pure Mahayana Buddhist who is a friend of the world…

If you’re currently attending weekly drop-in classes but want more, you might enjoy Foundation Program (FP). The Foundation Program gives you the opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience through engaging in a structured study and meditation program on the essential teachings of the Buddhist spiritual path.

Increase your lifespan, good fortune and wisdom by participating in this two session self-guided retreat to grow closer to Guru Amitayus, the Buddha who is the embodiment of all these good qualities.

Isn’t our deepest wish to find stable love & happiness? But how can we maintain our love for others amidst the everyday challenges that pop up in all of our relationships?

In Buddha’s teachings we can find the answers we are looking for: they give us the ability to continuously improve all of our relationships through learning to recognize the difference between real love and our unrealistic ideas about love.