At this event, Gen Chogden tell us about the wonderful opportunities available to us at Kadampa Buddhist Festivals. A high point of the year for Kadampa Buddhists is the International & National Kadampa Buddhist festivals.

At this event, Gen Chogden will explain and give the Refuge Vows. This afternoon’s teaching and ceremony will help us to understand the practice of Refuge, which characterizes the Buddhist way of life and is the foundation for all spiritual realizations.

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.

Love does not have to be painful.  In this retreat, we will learn specific methods for improving all our relationships through differentiating real love from the delusion of attachment.

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.

This event is open only to those who have already received Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments.

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.

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.

This event is open only to those who have already received Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Join us for our potluck lunch & holiday shopping event where we will have food, fun, and free gift wrapping!

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.

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.

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.