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.

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 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.

In this retreat, we can learn how coming to terms with our mortality enriches our life and enables us to meet our passing with dignity, confidence, and even joy. We can be inspired to live a pure, liberating lifestyle in which every moment is meaningful.

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

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, and prayers for compassion in the 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.

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.

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.

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.

The mind is full of creative power. In fact, each day our mind creates a multitude of realities, emotions, and experiences.

This workshop will teach how to use visualization and imagination to awaken and channel our creative energy into greater peace and happiness, and eventually to the perfection of our human 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.