Intro: Nyungnay - Compassion Fasting Retreat
Tuesday, April 7
7:00-8:30pm
Participants are encouraged to attend the introductory talk for this retreat. Instructions and reading materials will be available.
Introductory talk is FREE
Everyone is welcome!
In this retreat, we’ll learn to recognize the incredible kindness we have received from others — from our mother of this life, from countless beings who provide for us, and from those who guide and inspire our spiritual growth.
Through guided meditations and practical teachings, we’ll gradually open our hearts to see all living beings as our mothers and awaken a deep appreciation for the limitless kindness we have received since beginningless time.
With gentle meditation sessions, peaceful reflection, and the calming presence of the ocean, this retreat gives you the chance to relax, refresh, and connect with a warmer, more open heart.
Return home uplifted, inspired, and motivated to bring greater kindness into your life and the world around you.
An away retreat with Pacific Northwest Resident Teachers
~ A blissful weekend at Ocean Park Retreat Center ~
Intro: Refuge Retreat
7:00 pm - 8:30pm
Participants are encouraged to attend the introductory talk for this retreat. Instructions and reading materials will be available at each session.
Everyone is welcome!
MOVIE NIGHT: Life of Buddha
7:00 pm
Join us for a special movie screening of ‘The Life of Buddha’ in our meditation room. Movie length: 1 hour, 53 minutes
This film, The Life of Buddha, was filmed in the Temple for World Peace at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Center, UK, from plays performed and produced by dedicated volunteers during the NKT-IKBU Summer Festivals between 2006 and 2012.
Join us for a movie night and refreshments afterward.
Everyone is welcome!
Join us for a Community Talk and Preyers with Gen Gomlam 6:30pm and 7:00pm Offering to the Spiritual Guide Prayers.
Bring a Tsong offering
Kadampa Festival Journey Evening & Potluck
6:30 - potluck
7:30-8:30pm - Kadampa Festivals presentation and discussion
Did you know that Kadampa Buddhism is a worldwide tradition? At our international festivals, we meet Kadampa Buddhists from all over the world, speaking more than 20 different languages, and get to enjoy our truly global community. At this relaxed evening at Kadampa Meditation Center, learn all about Kadampa Festivals, through the experiences of local practitioners.
Bring one of your favorite dishes to share!
FREE EVENT
Everyone is welcome.
Have your own unforgettable experiences, by attending one of the upcoming festivals!
Join us for our Ballard Open House, coffee and FREE pancake breakfast from 8am-12 noon
Drop-in to a 15-minute Guided Meditation at 9:30am, 10:30am and 11:30am
Enjoy delicious pancakes, tour our beautiful meditation room and shrine, see the Kid's Class classroom, visit our bookstore and garden, and enjoy community
Join us for our biggest gathering of the year, the 2026 Northwest Dharma Celebration!
This year our Western National Spiritual Director and visiting Teacher Gen Kelsang Gomlam will grant the blessing empowerment of Buddha White Tara. An empowerment is a uniquely qualified guided meditation in which we receive special blessings into our mind. Gen Gomlam will also offer teachings on subtle impermenance, one of the “Four Seals” of Buddhism.
We all wish for spiritual realizations, but these depend upon creating certain inner conditions such as purifying negativity, accumulating merit, and receiving blessings. To do this we need to practice the four great preliminary guides. As a result, we will gain mahamudra realizations – the quick path to enlightenment. In this retreat we focus on the preliminary practices of receiving blessings and accumulating merit.
Kadampa Meditation Center Washington is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Member of the New Kadampa Tradition - International Kadampa Buddhist Union.
