Welcome to Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre
We offer Study and Meditation programmes in Modern Buddhism. With a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, you don’t have to be Buddhist to enjoy and benefit from our classes and events*. We teach Buddha’s highly practical meditation techniques and insights, that can help everyone reduce their stress, increase their inner peace, happiness and well-being.
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*for non-Muslim only
SPECIAL EVENTS
Like A Stainless Moon: How to Purify Ourself & Our World
27 – 30 March in Kuala Lumpur
At this year’s SEADC with Gen Kelsang Rabten, we will receive the empowerment of Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification. The blessing ceremony will be followed by teachings on how to purify our negative karma. Read more
RETREATS AT VAJRAPANI CENTRE PENANG
How to enjoy a long healthy, happy and meaningful life?
Eating well, resting well and doing regular exercise are just assisting causes for a long healthy life, because many people who are doing that do not have a long life.
The main causes for long and healthy life are abandoning killing, protecting life, especially relying upon Long Life Buddha Amitayus.
This coming Mar 1, we shall have a half day Amitayus retreat whereby we learn how, through the power of our reliance and Buddha Amitayus’ blessings, we can enjoy a long healthy happy and meaningful life, and eventually attain a Vajra body, a deathless body.
The first session at 9am will include a short briefing by Gen Lamchung. Sessions 2 and 3 are unguided. We will engage in the practice using the prayer booklet The Yoga of Buddha Amitayus.
You are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions. Just drop in, no need to book.
Fee: RM10 per session
With merits we can fulfil all our wishes and be happy all the time. Mandala offering practice is a real merit machine. It allows us to create immeasurable positivity in our mind, or merit. This good fortune allows us to fulfil our wishes, accomplish our aims, and benefit others. And, through the magical power of our imagination, we can create the world we want.
In this retreat we will focus on the preliminary practice of accumulating merit. Making mandala offerings is the gateway to accumulating the collection of merit and attaining an enlightened pure land.
You may drop in to one or more of the retreat sessions. See March calendar for detail.
Emptiness Retreat | May 1-5
Save the dates for this special event
Without others, there is no self. We will explore how, through our understanding and experience of emptiness, we can draw ever closer to all living beings.
Meditation classes
THURSDAY MEDITATION CLASS
Everyone wishes to be happy. But because we associate happiness with external situations, such as enjoyments, relationships, jobs and so on, all of which are temporary and unreliable, we fail to find the true happiness we long for. In reality, happiness is actually a state of mind. Therefore, the true cause of happiness is in the mind. Buddha has clearly demonstrated that it is definitely within our reach. We shall explore how Buddhist meditations are designed and directly take us to the true source of happiness within us.
Prayers
Every year the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) organises three International Festivals of modern Kadampa Buddhism taught by senior Teachers.
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The New Kadampa Tradition-International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) follows the pure tradition of Mahayana Buddhism handed down in an unbroken lineage from Buddha Shakyamuni through the ancient Kadampa teachers Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa and introduced into the modern world by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. The NKT-IKBU is a legally and entirely independent Buddhist tradition, and it has no political affiliations.
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso - Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. The Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Buddhist Union.
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- Inspiring Dharma Courses in France and Colombia
Gen Kelsang Atisha recently visited Medellín, Colombia, offering inspiring Dharma courses and a heartfelt public talk and Gen Eupamé shared meaningful teachings during his visit to Nantes and Rennes, France, bringing joy, clarity, and encouragement to practitioners in both communities.
- Making a Special Connection with Medicine Buddha
People were greeted at KMC Granada in Spain and Menlha KBC in Marseille, France by a sea of blue and gold as they came to receive the blessing empowerment of Medicine Buddha.
- Infinite life: Amitayus retreats around the world (Part 1)
During February, many Kadampa centers organize pujas, retreats, teachings and empowerments of Buddha Amitayus, the Buddha of long life, wisdom and merit. KMC France, KMC Alicante in Spain, KMC Colombia, and KMC Cuernavaca & Bodhisattva KBC in Mexico have already engaged in this wonderful retreat.
- Special Kadampa events in Ireland, France and Argentina
Across Ireland, France, and Argentina, Kadampa communities came together for empowerments, retreat teachings, and public meditation events. From Green Tara blessings at the Irish Dharma Celebration, to the conclusion of a month-long retreat with the Six Perfections and Bodhisattva Vows in France, and outreach meditations in Buenos Aires, these events offered inspiration, connection, and spiritual growth.
- Public Talk with Gen-la Dekyong at the Mother Center
On Sunday, nearly 300 people gathered at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre for a wonderfully inspiring Public Talk with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong.