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We offer Study and Meditation programmes in Modern Buddhism. Everyone is warmly welcome at Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Penang and the surrounding area. 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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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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Book now for the International Spring Festival.

During this Festival, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa will grant the Blessing Empowerment of Dorje Shugden. Dorje Shugden is a Dharma Protector emanation of the Wisdom Buddha who averts obstacles to our spiritual practice and gathers necessary conditions for our attaining spiritual realizations.

The festival is held at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, Ulverston, UK. You can attend the event in person or online. Online sessions are streamed 48 hours after the live session. 

Check the Spring Festival website for details of schedule, fees, accommodation, food, transport and more, and to book your place.

Gen-la Jampa
Profound teachings from Buddha’s Heart
Prajnaparamita Empowerment and Teachings on the Heart Sutra, and Commentary to Blissful Path and The Uncommon Yoga of Inconceivability

In October 2013 Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche gave his last public teachings in Portugal. See more

The festival is held at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, Ulverston, UK. You can attend the event in person or online. Online sessions are streamed 48 hours after the live session.

International FALL FESTIVAL 2024

Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerments of Heruka & Vajrayogini & Commentary with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong

Held at Kadampa Meditation Center Brazil, Oct 25 to Nov 1

As Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche explains in Modern Buddhism, the gateway through which we enter Tantra is receiving a Tantric empowerment. This bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. In this Festival Gen-la Dekyong will grant the empowerments of the principal Deities of Highest Yoga Tantra – Heruka and Vajrayogini – and introduce their essential practices.

New Kadampa Tradition

About the New Kadampa Tradition

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.

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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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  • Summer Festival 2024 Website Now Live

    Discover the profound teachings that Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche shared in Portugal in 2013, revisited at the Summer Festival 2024. Join Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong and Gen-la Kelsang Jampa at Manjushri KMC as they revisit the essence of Buddha's Perfection of Wisdom teachings, the Empowerment of Great Mother Prajnaparamita, and commentaries on the practices of Buddha Vajrayogini. Receive priceless heart advice and encouragement to control distractions and make your meditations effective. Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to deepen your spiritual path.

  • Buddha’s Enlightenment Day 2024

    April 15 is Buddha's Enlightenment Day, when we celebrate Buddha demonstrating how to attain enlightenment. Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is completely free from mistaken appearance and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day. It is the source of all living beings’ happiness.

  • NKT Day Celebrations ~ Part 2

    To celebrate NKT Day this year, Kadampa Centers in Spain opened their doors with special events. Nine of them shared their celebrations. See this post to get inspired!

  • NKT Day Celebrations ~ Part 1

    The first Saturday of April of each year is NKT Day, during which we celebrate the founding of the New Kadampa Tradition by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche in 1991. Kadampa Centers around the world organize special retreats, events, and prayers. At the Mother Center, Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Center, the following dedication was made...

  • Spring Festival 2024 is approaching

    Spring is here, and at Manjushri KMC this means the time has come to prepare the center for the first International Kadampa Festival of the year. For two days everyone comes together to thoroughly clean the Temple, main building and grounds.

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