The Gateway to Highest Yoga Tantra

Highest Yoga Tantra Empowerments of Heruka & Vajrayogini & Commentary with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong

Held at Kadampa Meditation Center Brazil   

As Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche explains in Modern Buddhism, the gateway through which we enter Tantra is receiving a Tantric empowerment. This bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature. In this Festival Gen-la Dekyong will grant the empowerments of the principal Deities of Highest Yoga Tantra – Heruka and Vajrayogini – and introduce their essential practices.

This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to receive from Gen-la Dekyong the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings of Heruka and Vajrayogini according to the Ganden Oral Lineage, which is the special heart treasure of her Spiritual Guide, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

Visit KMC Brazil

Fall Festival 2024 will be an opportunity to make a pilgrimage to one of our modern-day holy Kadampa sites, the largest World Peace Temple of our tradition and the blessed location of teachings given by Venerable Geshe-la in 2010.

Attending in-person and online
In addition to attending the live in-person event, there will also be an opportunity to join the Festival teachings online. Teaching and meditation sessions only will be streamed 48 hours after the live session. The Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments are not available online.

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.

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 of wisdom teachings, and gave commentaries to The Blissful Path, the condensed self-generation sadhana practice of Buddha Vajrayogini and to The Uncommon Yoga of Inconceivability, the special instruction of how to reach the Pure Land of Vajrayogini with our present human body.

During the teachings he also shared priceless heart advice and encouragement such as how to control our distractions so that our meditations will be effective.

During Summer Festival 2024 with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong and Gen-la Kelsang Jampa we will revisit these precious teachings and we will receive additional priceless jewels that Venerable Geshe-la has shared personally since then. Giving us the great opportunity to connect deeply to our precious Root Guru, enabling his teachings to deeply touch our hearts and for us to gain practical experience of them. In this way we will enrich our spiritual lives and draw closer to attaining full enlightenment so that we can benefit all living beings.

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.

with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong & Gen-la Kelsang Jampa

July 28 - August 12, 2023, at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, UK

In Week 1 of this special Festival, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, Deputy Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU, will teach the stages of Kadam Lamrim of Sutra. These practices are an essential foundation for receiving Highest Yoga Tantra teachings.

In Week 2, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of NKT-IKBU, will teach the stages of Kadam Lamrim of Tantra by granting the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and commentaries of Heruka Body Mandala and Vajrayogini.

Attending in-person and online

In addition to attending the live in-person event, there will also be an opportunity to join the Festival on-line. All on-line sessions will be streamed 48 hours after the live session.

Week 1 is available in-person and online and is open to everyone

Week 2 is open to everyone in person. To participate online you must previously have received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka Body Mandala and Vajrayogini within NKT. The empowerments will not be available online.