SPIRITUAL: Special Class

Join us on Tuesday, March 4, from 7 - 8:30 PM (EST) as Venerable Lobsang Thrinley (formerly known as Joey Gooch) shares his experience of becoming an ordained monk and what life is like living at Nalanda Monastery in France.  Attend in person at Kadampa Center, join on Zoom, or watch via Live Stream on YouTube.

Located in the countryside near Lavaur, France, Nalanda Monastery is a modern-day Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition and, like Kadampa Center, is affiliated with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT).  Nalanda is named for the great Indian monastery that produced highly acclaimed Buddhist scholars, including Lama Atisha, Chandrakirti, Nagarjuna, and Shantarakshita, whose works we continue to study today.

Kadampa Center is happy to host an evening with Venerable Thrinley, a resident of Nalanda Monastery, who will speak about his experience and the traditions at the monastery.

Learn more about Nalanda Monastery HERE. 

2025 Dharma Movie Series:  As part of our Spiritual Program, Elise Strevel, Outreach Coordinator and Buddhism in a Nutshell instructor, is hosting dharma-related movies introducing Buddhist teachers and their work to our Kadampa community of students. She will be providing a brief intro to each showing and lead an educational discussion afterward.

Out of an abundance of caution and for everyone's safety, the movie scheduled for tonight, Sat Jan 11, will be postponed one week to Sat Jan 18.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.  Please stay safely home, as it is anticipated that the wet roads from today's melt may freeze tonight. 

Join us for the movie on Saturday, January 18, from 6:30 -8:30 pm.

2025 Dharma Movie Series:  As part of our Spiritual Program, Elise Strevel, Outreach Coordinator and Buddhism in a Nutshell instructor, is hosting dharma-related movies introducing Buddhist teachers and their work to our Kadampa community of students. She will be providing a brief intro to each showing and lead an educational discussion afterward.

BUDDHIST MIND SCIENCE: Activating Your Potential
	Module 7. Embodying Warmheartedness and Wisdom Wednesdays, April 16 - May 7, 2025, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm (ET) ~ offered online only ~ This course is co-hosted and offered by Tushita Meditation Center, Spain, and Land of Joy, UK. Please find more information below, including how to register.

COURSE INFO

Module 7 of the Buddhist Mind Science course focuses on how to bring our inner qualities into the world—and how to enhance them while living in it.  The course does so by presenting topics such as inner refuge, spirituality, and engaged compassion. It also includes helpful guidelines, such as the “six perfections,” or how to deal with difficulties and use them in our favor.  In a way, it is a call for a revolution of compassion. The course is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on prosocial skills, life satisfaction, well-being, and happiness.  More about this new FPMT introductory course can be found on the Kadampa Center website HERE and on the Tushita Meditation Center website HERE.

HOW TO REGISTER

This Buddhist Mind Science course is offered by the following co-hosting centers; please click on either of their links for more information and to register.

• Tushita Meditation Center, Spain

• Land of Joy, UK

BUDDHIST MIND SCIENCE: Activating Your Potential
	Module 6.  The Nature of Perception Wednesdays, March 5 - 26, 2025, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm (ET) ~ offered online only ~  This course is co-hosted and offered by Tushita Meditation Center, Spain, and Land of Joy, UK. Please find more information below, including how to register.

COURSE INFO

Module 6 of the Buddhist Mind Science course focuses on wisdom.  It reflects on the meaning of wisdom, its relevance, and how it counteracts the causes of suffering.  This module goes deeper into the most profound aspect of wisdom:  understanding the nature of reality, and concludes with the nature of mind which makes full awakening possible.  It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on wisdom and well-being and the process of perception.  More about this new FPMT introductory course can be found on the Kadampa Center website HERE and on the Tushita Meditation Center website HERE.

HOW TO REGISTER

This Buddhist Mind Science course is offered by the following co-hosting centers; please click on either of their links for more information and to register.

• Tushita Meditation Center, Spain

• Land of Joy, UK

BUDDHIST MIND SCIENCE: Activating Your Potential
	Module 5.  Wise Paths to the Heart Wednesdays, Febuary 5 - 26, 2025, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm (EDT) ~ offered online only ~ This course is co-hosted and offered by Tushita Meditation Center, Spain, and Land of Joy, UK. Please find more information below, including how to register.

COURSE INFO

Module 5 of the Buddhist Mind Science course focuses on cultivating warmheartedness and prosocial attitudes, which are essential for human evolution, well-being, and flourishing.  Module 5 presents the four immeasurable attitudes of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, as drawn from the Buddhist tradition, and explores the mind of awakening which embraces all sentient beings.  It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on the nature and biological basis of altruism, empathy, compassion, and self-compassion.  More about this new FPMT introductory course can be found on the Kadampa Center website HERE and on the Tushita Meditation Center website HERE.

HOW TO REGISTER

This Buddhist Mind Science course is offered by the following co-hosting centers; please click on either of their links for more information and to register.

• Tushita Meditation Center, Spain

• Land of Joy, UK

BUDDHIST MIND SCIENCE: Activating Your Potential
	Module 4.  Fundamental Trainings to Cultivate Lasting Happiness Wednesdays, January 8 - 29, 2025, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm (EST) ~ offered online only ~ This course is being co-hosted and offered by:  Tushita Meditation Center, Spain, and Land of Joy, UK. Please find more information below, including how to register.

COURSE INFO

Module 4 of the Buddhist Mind Science course is an introduction to the fundamental practices that Buddhism offers to cultivate the paths that lead to freedom from suffering and its causes.  This module concludes by presenting the possibility of awakening, the maximum expression of our potential.  It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on why is it that we feel unsatisfied, ethics, the development of attention, and wisdom.  More about this new FPMT introductory course can be found on the Kadampa Center website HERE and on the Tushita Meditation Center website HERE.

HOW TO REGISTER

This Buddhist Mind Science course is offered by the following co-hosting centers; please click on either of their links for more information and to register.

• Tushita Meditation Center, Spain

• Land of Joy, UK

2024 Dharma Movie Series:  As part of our Spiritual Program, Elise Strevel, Outreach Coordinator and Buddhism in a Nutshell instructor, is hosting dharma-related movies introducing Buddhist teachers and their work to our Kadampa community of students. She will be providing a brief intro to each showing and lead an educational discussion afterward.

BUDDHIST MIND SCIENCE: Activating Your Potential
	Module 3.  Getting to Know Your Mind Wednesdays, November 27 - December 18, 2024, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm (EDT) ~ offered online only ~ This course is being co-hosted by:  Tushita Meditation Center, Spain, and Land of Joy, UK.  Please find more information below including how to register.

COURSE INFO

Module 3 of the Buddhist Mind Science course focuses on an exploration of the mind to understand what it is, its characteristics, and how we can become more aware of our mental processes and of the mind itself.  This module also goes deeper into techniques that diminish mental afflictions, and reflects on the possibility of the continuity of the mind and on karma.  It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding of the mind.  More about this new FPMT introductory course can be found on the Kadampa Center website HERE and on the Tushita Meditation Center website HERE. 

HOW TO REGISTER

This Buddhist Mind Science course is offered by the following co-hosting centers; please click on either of their links for more information and to register.

• Tushita Meditation Center, Spain

• Land of Joy, UK