879 Somerset Street West, Ottawa

FREE for Gold & Platinum members. Register below or at the door.

This three day retreat will offer an opportunity to review the profound teachings from this year’s Summer Festival held at our Mother Centre, Manjushri KMC in England.

Saturday and Sunday Gen Thekchen will guide meditations on generating a pure intention to meditate on emptiness.  Then we will recite the Great Mother which includes reciting the profound Heart Sutra. Gen Thekchen will then guide meditations on the emptiness of the body, the self and of all phenomena.  This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your experience of both loving kindness and the wisdom realizing the true nature of reality.

Finally on Monday, Gen Thekchen will guide us on the powerful practice of the Yoga of Inconceivability which quickly leads us to the Pure Land of Keajra.  

This is a wonderful opportunity to review and meditate on the instructions we received at the Summer Festival.  You don't have to have attended the Festival to attend this retreat - everyone is welcome. 

Retreat Schedule

Saturday Aug 24

9-10:15am - Session 1

11:15-12:30 - Session 2

2:00-3:30 with Q&A - Session 3

7-8:15pm - Session 4

Sunday Aug 25

9-10:15am - Session 1

11:15-12:30 - Session 2

2:00-3:30 with Q&A - Session 3

7-8:30pm - Offering to the Spiritual Guide prayers

Monday Aug 26

9-10:15am - Session 1

11:15-12:30 - Session 2

2:00-3:30 with Q&A - Session 3

7-8:30pm - Session 4

This retreat will be guided by Gen Kelsang Thekchen, who is a Kadampa Buddhist monk & senior Teacher in the New Kadampa Tradition. He has been a Teacher under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for more than 25 years. Gen Thekchen has taught widely in Canada and in the UK, and is now the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Centre Ottawa. He is well known for his ability to present Buddha's teachings in a practical, profound and often humorous way, making them very accessible and easy to practise in everyday life.