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CLASSES & EVENTS LIST
How to create a life of happiness and meaning
Weekend retreat on the initial and intermediate scopes of Lamrim
Hope and happiness in troubled times
An inspiring morning with teachings and guided meditations
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Special weekend course with Gen Delek at KMC Vancouver
Walk for World Peace (June 22)
Sunday June 22, 2025
1:00-2:30pm
Annual Walk for World Peace
at Lynn Canyon Park, North Vancouver, BC
Offering our Faith Retreat
Offering Our Faith Retreat
FREE for Everyone | Drop-ins welcome | Available via livestream for members
Every day we remember the extraordinary kindness of Venerable Geshe-la, our Root Guru and Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. But on this auspicious day, June 4 (Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day), at Kadampa centres around the world, with minds of rejoicing and gratitude, we offer him our faith through using the special prayer Request to the Holy Spiritual Guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso from his Faithful Disciples and collecting our Guru’s name mantra in a one-day retreat. Everyone is welcome to take part.
Gen Delek will give a short explanation of the retreat at 9:00am, at the beginning of the first session.
This event is suitable for everyone, beginners are welcome.
Event Schedule
Session 1: 9:00am – 10:30pm
Session 2: 11:30 – 12:45pm
Wishfulfilling Jewel 5:00 – 6:00pm
Session 3: 7:00 – 8:15pm
About the Resident Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver. Her extensive experience and excellent example are well appreciated by her students. With her practical approach and clear explanations of even the most profound of Buddha’s teachings, Gen Delek inspires us to put Dharma into practice in our daily lives.
Nyungnay Purification Retreat
Drop in and pay/register at the door $30 non-members. Free for members
On this special annual retreat that comes around just once every year. We will spend two days with thousand-armed (eleven-faced) Avalokiteshvara – ‘Mahakaruna’ – the nature of our Guru’s great compassion. This will involve making exquisite offerings, praises and prostrations and thereby accumulating huge merit, purifying vast negativity for ourself and others and receiving the most powerful blessing to propel ourself swiftly along our path to enlightenment.
Wrapped within the practice of the Mahayana Precepts, Nyungnay involves fasting and making three sessions of prostrations, with the sadhana ‘Drop of Essential Nectar‘, over two days. Usually the second day is accompanied by a full fast, which although recommended, is not compulsory. A complimentary precepts lunch is included on the first day.
Everyone is welcome to join us for this special retreat.
Event Schedule
Tuesday April 15th:
6:30–7:00 am Mahayana Precepts
7:00–8:15 am Session 1
10:30-11:45 am Session 2
2:30–3:45 pm Session 3
Monday April 14th:
6.30–7:15 am Mahayana Precepts and introduction
7:15–8:30 am Session 1
10:30–11:45 am Session 2
2:30–3:45 pm Session 3
About our Resident Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek is a Canadian Buddhist nun and the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver. She has been a long time student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition, and taught Kadampa Dharma for more than 30 years. She is well loved for the clarity and depth of her teachings.