Geshe Kelsang Gyatso recently revised his most popular book for beginners, Transform Your Life. Now titled, How to Transform Your Life, it is Venerable Geshe-la’s generous wish to make the electronic version of this book free to everyone. Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Wishing everyone a very happy and peaceful New Year now and throughout 2017. Here are a few photos from our New Year’s Eve service and party. Continue reading
Help to support Kalpa Bhadra KBC while you shop
You can now help to support Kalpa Bhadra KBC whenever you shop online by using our custom Amazon Smile page. Use the link below on Cyber Monday and for all your online holiday shopping, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of all eligible items to Kalpa Bhadra Kadampa Buddhist Center.Continue reading
Year End Giving
Dear Kalpa Bhadra Kadampa Buddhist Center Community and Friends,
With the end of the year approaching, we hope you will consider including Kalpa Bhadra KBC in your holiday season giving.
Our mission is to provide opportunities for everyone to develop peaceful and loving minds through meditation retreats and classes on Kadampa Buddhism. As Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, founder of the New Kadampa Tradition says: Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.Continue reading
Buddha’s Enlightenment Day
A special Buddhist holiday is coming up soon, Buddha’s Enlightenment Day! Each year on April 15th Kadampa Buddhists around the world commemorate the day when Buddha Shakyamuni demonstrated the attainment of enlightenment (in the year 589 BCE).
The story of Buddha Shakyamuni’s life leading up to his enlightenment is quite remarkable, as he had to face enormous challenges. Continue reading
Photos from the Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration
Last week, people from all over the Mid-Atlantic region gathered at Kadampa Meditation Center Maryland to receive blessings, learn about the spiritual path, and meditate together. Here are some photos showing some of the highlights of the weekend.Continue reading
What is a Dharma Celebration?
There are a lot of really great events taking place here in Harrisburg over the next few months, but it’s worth making a special mention of an event happening outside of our Center, the Mid-Atlantic Dharma Celebration at the Kadampa World Peace Temple in Baltimore coming up on March 18th – 20th. This one is not to be missed!Continue reading
Welcome to our new website!
Hi there, and welcome to the new Kalpa Bhadra KBC website! We hope the new format will be easy to use, and will better describe who we are and what we do. There is a lot of new content that we think you will find interesting and helpful. We hope you’ll have fun perusing the pages to discover all of the new features. However, we’d like to point out some of the highlights.Continue reading