Summer Festival 2025
International Kadampa Buddhist Festival
@ Manjushri KMC, Ulverston, Cumbria
Friday 25 July – Saturday 9 August
In-person & Livestream
Join us for the International Kadampa Summer Festival.
Buddha Green Tara Empowerment with Teachings on Advice From Atisha’s Heart with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong and Gen-la Kelsang Jampa.
The International Kadampa Summer Festival will be taking place at the Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in Cumbria. Accommodation is available on site or nearby, or else you can visit for a day, or attend online.
Our festivals are a spiritual holiday like no other. They give us an opportunity to step away from the busyness of daily life and to make time for our inner spiritual development for a concentrated period of time. In this way we accelerate our meditation practice, deepening our understanding and experience in a relatively short period of time. We also have the opportunity to meet and be part of a diverse and international community from all walks of life. People of every age and background are welcome to attend the Festivals and no prior experience is necessary.
Over two weeks, the Festival will emphasise teachings and meditations on Advice from Atisha’s Heart from our two most senior Teachers. For the first time, all of Venerable Geshe-la’s oral transmissions on the verses will be brought together, including his special advice on how to engage in retreat on this text. Through Venerable Geshe-la’s encouragement and blessings Gen-la Dekyong and Gen-la Jampa will transmit a complete commentary to all the verses.
By keeping Atisha’s Advice in our heart we can maintain a peaceful, happy mind, our human nature and good qualities will improve, we will show a good example in this troubled world and we will quickly attain great enlightenment. Kadampa Buddhists have an especially close connection with Buddha Tara because she appeared directly to Atisha, the founder of Kadampa Buddhism, and promised to care for all his future followers.
“Simply putting this Advice into practice we will naturally become a Bodhisattva, a holy compassionate being who is the object of everybody’s love and respect.”
The Festival will take place in the blessed Temple for World Peace set in the holy environment of Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, the Mother Centre of Kadampa Buddhism, which is located in Ulverston in the beautiful Lake District, UK. It is open to everyone and suitable for all levels of experience.
More details here https://kadampafestivals.org/summer
Location
Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, Conishead Priory, Ulverston, LA12 9QQ, UK.
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Location
Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre is the pricipal centre of the the New Kadampa Tradition, International Kadampa Buddhist Union, and the site of the International Spring and Summer Festivals each year.
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche lived and taught for decades at Manjushri KMC. The teachings and meditations will be held in the first Kadampa Temple for World Peace, which was designed and blessed by Venerable Geshe-la.
The center stands in seventy acres of gardens and woodland with a lake, streams, numerous walks and an enchanting beach on the shores of Morecambe Bay. It is in an area of outstanding natural beauty with many opportunities for walks and other leisure activities.
