Weekly Newsletter

Quick Links to Take Action! RECITE MANTRAS FOR OUR GESHES' LONG LIVES: Enter Tara Mantra Count here BENEFIT LIGHT OF THE PATH RETREAT: Recite Praises to the 21 Taras and enter here OFFER PROSTRATIONS: 2019 Annual Appeal practice; enter count here ANNUAL APPEAL - Did You Know there are many ways to give? Click here CONNECT WITH YOUR PEN: Become a KC Prison Project Pen Pal today. STREAMING: Live or On Demand

Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2019

THURSDAY, NOV 28 - Happy Thanksgiving! Center Closed FRIDAY, NOV 29 Center Closed SATURDAY, NOV 30 6:00p, Dinners at 6 (Meet at Aladdin's Eatery in North Hills) SUNDAY, DEC 1 9:00-9:45a, Sunday Meditation Circle 10:30a-Noon, Sunday Dharma and Happiness - Geshe Gelek returns 10:30-Noon, Children welcome in gompa - No Family Program Noon-12:15p, Newcomer Q&A FULL CALENDAR

Upcoming Calendar Items

Join us to welcome back Geshe-la this Sunday! It's always lovely to see Geshe-la's smiling face again matched by the smiles of everyone in the gompa. We look forward to the teachings from our precious teacher. Bring your kata! When: Dec 1

Medicine Buddha puja is a beautiful prayer service that includes lyrical praises to the seven Medicine Buddhas, requests for their help and aspirations for our own spiritual attainments. It is beneficial for mental and physical healing and world peace. When: Dec 4, 12 pm  LEARN MORE

Join Geshe Gelek as he guides us to selected points in the road to enlightenment. Current and upcoming topics:  Beginning December 4, Geshe-la will teach the death meditation and dissolution of elements. When: Dec 4, 11 and 18 LEARN MORE

The 2020 ANNUAL APPEAL has started! There are many ways you can 'Look to the Future" in support of the Center you love. It takes all of us together to help our Center thrive! LEARN MORE

Practices to offer

Our spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, advised us to recite 100,000 of these praises to create the causes for the next Light of the Path Retreat. Enter here. Our progress as of today: 61,663 LEARN MORE

Enter your 2019 Prostration Challenge count here! We'll offer them all to Geshe-la at the end of the year. We have 42,051 as of today! LEARN MORE

SPIRITUAL PROGRAM

Merit Makers & Side Notes

Thanks go out this week to our greeters: Jason Jenkins and Karen Beesley. Your consistent kind offering of greeting our members and visitors with a smiling face has been beneficial to all. Thanks for helping folks feel comfortable no matter if this is their first time entering a Buddhist temple or their 521st. You are appreciated! Others are welcome to sign up for this volunteer position too. See our website. MORE MERIT MAKERS It’s that time of the year for leaf blower meditations. When my leaves are blown to the curb, I never think... MORE SIDE NOTES

Family Program

WELCOME FAMILIES – JOIN US! Dec 1-29, Children are welcome in the gompa - NO separate Family Program. Classes resume in January. LEARN MORE Sunday morning classes begin at 10:30 Our Sunday Program is a vibrant mix of drop-off and family programming. Much of our curriculum content is based on the 16 Guidelines . FAMILY PROGRAM

Social Opportunities

Kadampa Center Hours

Wednesday-Friday, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (please call ahead to ensure staff is available  to unlock building) Wed-Fri: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm: Silent meditation - all welcome (call ahead) Classes and events take place throughout the week. Doors open 30 minutes prior to start times.

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Kadampa Center is affiliated with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama