Courses & Retreats
Online Education Programme
Online Streaming of Classes
For those who are unable to attend in-person classes for valid reasons such as through disability or long distance and live within the catchment area of Manjushri KMC, there are opportunities to live stream online. The General Programme evening classes, day courses, weekend courses and some pujas are available live streamed to those paying a monthly education facility fee at Manjushri KMC.
The in-depth study programmes of Foundation Programme and Special Teacher Training Programme are available as an online option from Manjushri KMC. Other centres will also offer similar online study programmes to people of their catchment area including live streamed GP classes, please check with your local centre for further information.Â
Please apply below to request online access for certain classes and courses, giving your reasons:
Food for Thought
A special night out with a relaxing guided meditation followed by a delicious, home-cooked, vegetarian meal, with recipes from around the world. with Kelsang Denyi BOOK NOW ...
Refresh and Revive Overnighter
with Kelsang Denyi Friday Apr 26 A special night out with a relaxing guided meditation followed by a delicious, home-cooked, vegetarian meal, with recipes from around the world. Saturday Apr 27 Refresh your mind with the morning meditations and revive your energy with woodland walks to the shores of Morecambe Bay. Or make it a ... Read more ...
Family Weekend ~ How Buddhas Help Us
with Gen Kelsang Dragden Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Plymouth May 3 – 6 2024 A chance for families to meet, have fun and enjoy a fun weekend with a difference! Using periods of silence and quiet contemplation, all the family can learn to overcome anxiety and other negative minds, and experience the joy ... Read more ...
Creating Inner Space ~ Day Retreat
with Kelsang Yeshe May 11 2024 Learn simple, practical meditations to introduce some space into your mind and your life. These meditations will make your mind calm and peaceful so you can become free from stress, tensions and worries. BOOK NOW ...
International Spring Festival 2024
Accomplishing the Great Wisdom Protection Dorje Shugden Empowerment and teachings on the Extensive Protector Puja with Gen-la Kelsang Jampa 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. During this Festival, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa will grant the ... Read more ...
Offering Our Faith ~ Celebrating Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
Jun 4 2024 A special day of retreat in the Temple at Manjushri KMC Every day we remember the extraordinary kindness of Venerable Geshe-la, our Root Guru and Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. But on the auspicious day June 4 (Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day), at Kadampa centres around the world, with minds ... Read more ...
Letting go of negative emotions ~ Day Course
with Kadam Chris Heyes Resident Teacher of Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre, Leicester Jun 8 2024 Our negative thoughts and feelings hold us back from enjoying our life. In this course we will explore Buddhist techniques for letting them go and improving the quality of our life. BOOK NOW ...
No Worries, De-Stress, Relaxation Retreat ~ Weekend Meditation Retreat
with Kadam John McBretney Resident Teacher of Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre, London Jun 14 – 16 2024 Worries, stress and feeling tense are predominant problems for people of the modern world. They make it difficult to enjoy life to the full. On this retreat you will learn not only what causes these painful states, but ... Read more ...
Refresh and Revive Overnighter
Friday June 21 A special night out with a relaxing guided meditation followed by a delicious, home-cooked, vegetarian meal, with recipes from around the world. Saturday June 22 Refresh your mind with the morning meditations and revive your energy with woodland walks to the shores of Morecambe Bay. Or make it a weekend break by ... Read more ...
Food for Thought
A special night out with a relaxing guided meditation followed by a delicious, home-cooked, vegetarian meal, with recipes from around the world. BOOK NOW ...
Guru Yoga and Mandala Offering Retreat
Guru Yoga and Mandala offering retreat combines two of the four great preliminary guides that we need to practice if we want to gain Mahamudra realisations – the quick path to enlightenment. We all wish for spiritual realisations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings. ... Read more ...
International Summer Festival
Profound Teachings from Buddha’s Heart Portugal Festival 2013 Revisited In October 2013 Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche gave his last public teachings in Portugal. Held at Manjushri KMC, UK During these teachings Geshe-la granted the empowerment of Great Mother Prajnaparamita, taught the Essence of Wisdom Sutra (Heart Sutra), which contains the heart essence of Buddha’s perfection ... Read more ...
Ocean of Peace ~ Summer Retreat
with Gen Kelsang Tubchen Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Aberdeen Aug 23 – 26 2024 Join this long weekend meditation retreat to explore the themes of mental peace, concentration & tranquility. In our busy modern world it takes a conscious decision to calm the mind, limit our distracting thoughts, and find peace. Through engaging ... Read more ...
Kadam Lamrim Retreat
Lamrim meditations help us to solve the problems of daily life and maintain a calm and happy mind all the time. Eventually we can attain permanent freedom from the inner causes of all worry and problems and help others to do the same. Lamrim is the very essence of Buddha’s teachings and is very practical ... Read more ...