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CLASSES & EVENTS LIST
Purify your Mind, Purify your World
Weekend course on the 35 Confession Buddha practice
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.
Refuge Retreat
Through the practice of going for refuge to the Three Jewels – Buddha, Dharma and Sangha – we become Buddhist. Learn what this means on this special retreat. Gen Delek will give an introduction on Friday. The sessions on Saturday and Sunday will be unguided. They will be in conjunction with the prayers The Hundreds of Deities of the Joyful Land According to Highest Yoga Tantra and there will be 20 to 30 minutes of silent meditation in each session. Through such retreats our refuge can become authentic and powerful and we can accomplish all the stages of the path to enlightenment.
Cost
Non-members
Whole retreat: $35
Friday evening: $16
Sat and Sun retreat sessions: $5 per session
Or Pay at the door
Members
Free, included in your membership
Retreat Timetable
Friday 14th
7:00 – 8:30pm Introduction (this session will also be available by livestream for members)
Saturday 15th
10:00am-11:15am
11:45am – 1:00pm
2:30 – 3:45pm
4:15 – 5:30pm
Sunday 16th
10:45am -12pm
12:30pm– 1:45pm
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). She has been a Kadampa Buddhist nun and Teacher under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, for almost 30 years and has been the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Centres in Canada, Japan and the UK.
Amitayus Retreat
This annual retreat is an opportunity to focus on the meditation practice of Amitayus, the Buddha of Immeasurable Life, which is a special method for increasing our lifespan, wisdom and merit.
The retreat starts with an introduction on Friday night when Gen Delek will explain the practice, and then 3 sessions of unguided retreat on Saturday.
Cost
Free for members.
Non-members
Friday intro: $16
Saturday sessions: $5
Whole retreat: $20
Pay at the door
Schedule
Friday, Jan 31st
7:00 – 8:30pm Introduction
Saturday, Feb 1st
9:00 – 10:15am
11:00am – 12:15pm
2:00 – 3:30pm
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). She has been a Kadampa Buddhist nun and Teacher under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, for almost 30 years and has been the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Centres in Canada, Japan and the UK.
Digital Detox
Step away from your digital world and immerse yourself in a short retreat to unplug and reclaim time for what truly matters.
Experience the transformative power of meditation to help us relax, destress, and discover a more peaceful mind. With a less distracted mind, we can create powerful intentions for change.
Join us in the peaceful space of Kadampa Meditation Centre Vancouver, where Kadampa Teacher, Inkeri Meharg, will share practical techniques and strategies to bring mindfulness and intention to your digital life.
Each session will consist of short teachings and meditations. Between sessions, enjoy refreshments, lunch and the opportunity to ask questions. Our shop also offers a variety of books and other meditation materials to support your journey toward a greater sense of balance and fulfillment in your life.
No previous experience with meditation is required. Everybody is welcome!
Cost
$50 for non-members
$20 for members
Schedule
Session 1: 10:00am-11:00am
Session 2: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Lunch: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Session 3: 2:00pm-3:00pm
About the Teacher
Inkeri Meharg is a senior Kadampa teacher who has been practicing for nearly 25 years. She brings a wealth of practical experience of integrating Buddhist teachings with daily life. Inkeri often teaches the Learn to Meditate courses at our main Kadampa centre.
Clarity of Mind - a silent retreat
Our mind’s true nature is like a clear sky, but so often it’s clouded by our busy, uncontrolled and sometimes negative thoughts.
In this one day retreat we will engage in meditations from the Buddhist Mahamudra tradition, leading to an experience of our spacious, peaceful, blue sky mind. Gen Sanden will explain how to eliminate distractions and engage in clear and joyful meditations.
What a great way to prepare for the holiday season ahead!
This retreat is suitable for everyone - Buddhist, non-Buddhist, beginners and those with some experience of meditation. Everyone is welcome and will benefit from this day retreat!
To help us let go of our busy external world, settle our mind, and get the most out of this precious time on retreat, we will keep silence inside the building throughout the day.
Cost
$50 for non-members
$20 for members
Includes lunch and refreshments
Schedule
Session 1: 10:00 – 11:00am
Session 2: 11:30am – 12:30pm
Lunch: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Session 3: 2:00 – 3:00pm
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Sanden is a Canadian Buddhist monk, and a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition. He has been a long time student of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. He is well loved for his compassion, sense of humour and the clarity of his teachings.
❄️WEEKEND VAJRASATTVA PURIFICATION RETREAT❄️
We dedicate most of our time and energy trying to avoid problems by making changes to the external world. However, the main cause of our unhappiness and difficulties cannot be found in external conditions. It is the negative karma we have created in the past through performing harmful actions. By relying upon Vajrasattva, the Buddha of purification we will cleanse our mind of delusions, negativity and obstacles. Through special meditation and mantra recitation we have the great opportunity to purify our mind quickly, so that we can make swift progress on the spiritual path.
Out of his compassion for living beings Buddha taught many methods for purifying negative actions. Among these, one supremely powerful method is meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in The New Guide to Dakini Land
Cost
Non-members
Whole retreat: $35
Friday evening: $15
Sat and Sun retreat sessions: $5 per session
Please pay at the door
Members
Free, included in your membership
Retreat Timetable
Friday 6th
7:00 – 8:15pm Introduction
Saturday 7th
9:00 – 10:15am
11:00 – 12:15pm
2:30 – 3:45pm
4:30 – 6:00pm
Sunday 8th
9:00 – 10:15am
11:00 – 12:30pm
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Delek, the Resident Teacher of KMC Vancouver, is a senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU). She has been a Kadampa Buddhist nun and Teacher under the guidance of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, for almost 30 years and has been the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Centres in Canada, Japan and the UK.