NKT-IKBU INTERNATIONAL
SPRING FESTIVAL 2025
MAY 23 - 28
Post Festival Retreats
The three International Festivals are precious opportunities to receive teachings and empowerments from the Gen-las, and this experience is greatly enhanced if we can spend some time after the Festival in retreat improving our understanding of the teachings and taking their meaning to heart.
Post-festival retreats are organised by Kadampa centers around the world after each of the three International Festivals. See below for details of retreats following the 2025 Spring Festival.
Kailash International Retreat Centre
May 30 – Jun 2
Non – dual Profundity and Clarity – The tantric Self-generation Practice of Buddha Maitreya
with Kadam Morten Clausen, Eastern US National Spiritual and Resident Teacher at KMC NYC
Following on from the International Spring Festival at Manjushri KMC, UK, Kadam Morten will lead a 5-day retreat based on the teachings and commentaries received at the Festival. On this retreat, we will deepen our experience of non-dual profundity and clarity by engaging in the self-generation Practice of Buddha Maitreya. Through identifying strongly with this Buddha’s qualities, we nurture them within ourselves. In this way we begin to become someone whose love transforms the world.
Kadampa Meditation Center Athens, Greece
May 30 – Jun 1
How Love Solves All Our Problems
With Gen Kelsang Ananda, National Spiritual Director of Germany, Slovenia, Romania & Czech Republic and Resident Teacher of Tharpaland KMC
We warmly invite you to join us for an Urban Retreat with Gen Kelsang Ananda, who will take us on a joyful journey exploring the different minds of love. Together, we will immerse ourselves into their respective qualities and understand their practical benefit in solving our daily problems. As Geshe-la explains, with love there are no more enemies and our problems have no ground to stand on. Taking the practice even further, we can unlock the potential to actually become a Buddha of Loving Kindness ourself, which can be the ultimate goal of this precious human life.
Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre
May 29 – Jun 5
Solving our Daily Problems with Loving Kindness
Gen Kelsang Rabten is the National Spiritual Director for Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia and Resident Teacher of KMC Australia and KMC Melbourne
Gen Rabten will guide a beautiful series of meditations throughout the retreat, deepening our connection with Buddha Maitreya, as well as re-visiting the main points from the profound teachings on Loving Kindness that will be given by Gen-la Jampa at the Spring Festival.
Kadampa Meditation Centre France
May 30 – Jun 3
Infinite love
With Gen-la Kelsang Kunsang, National Spiritual Director of Austria, Switzerland, Italy and South Africa, and Resident Teacher in Madhyamaka KMC
This retreat will be guided on the sadhana The Yoga of Buddha Maitreya and the teachings of the International Spring Festival 2025. We will have the very special opportunity to welcome Gen-la Kunsang for this post-festival retreat. A very privileged moment to focus on the development of this essential realisation of loving-kindness.
Kadampa Meditation Center Madrid, Spain
May 30 – Jun 3
Buddha Maitreya – Universal Love & Kindness Retreat
With Gen Kelsang Mudita National Spiritual Director of Brazil and Resident Teacher of KMC Mahabodhi, Sao Paolo
This is a unique opportunity to strengthen our spiritual practice, transform our mind, and open our heart toward others. This retreat will help us cultivate loving-kindness and develop harmonious relationships.
International Kadampa Retreat Center, Menorca
Jun 6 – 8
The Practice of Buddha Maitreya and the three types of love
with Gen Dargyey Resident Teacher at KMC Seville
Join us for the Post-Fall Festival Retreat in the peaceful environment of IKRC Menorca, blessed by Venerable Geshe-la himself with his presence. Guided by Gen Kelsang Dargyey, we will deepen our experience of the Festival teachings on developing the three types of love and the practice of Buddha Maitreya in the very blessed and peaceful environment of IKRC Menorca.
Kadampa Meditation Center Spain
May 30 – Jun 1
With Love, Everything Works out Better
With Gen Kelsang Trime, Resident Teacher at KMC Spain
In this post spring festival retreat we will learn the power of love to solve our problems through the blessings of Maitreya Buddha, the Buddha of loving-kindness, and we can take to our hearts the understanding of how love protects ourselves and others from suffering.
Tharpaland Kadampa Meditation Center, Germany
May 31 – Jun 3
Meditations that Nourish our Heart
with Gen Kelsang Eupame, National Spiritual Director of the NKT in France and Resident Teacher of KMC France
Following the empowerment and teachings during the NKT International Spring Festival 2025, you are invited to join our annual Spring Retreat. Deepen your experience of the mind of affection and wishing love by practising the Yoga of Buddha Maitreya with others – all in the perfect retreat setting of Tharpaland KMC near Berlin!
Gen Kelsang Eupame is a senior Buddhist monk and Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Center France as well as the National Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition for France. He shows with a good heart how to apply the practical wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives.
Kadampa Meditation Center Barcelona, Spain
May 30 – Jun 3
Love is the Great Protector
with Gen Kelsang Dornying, Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Centre Leeds
Based on teachings from the Spring Festival at Manjushri KMC, Gen Dornying will guide a short retreat, to enjoy and immerse in the wisdom of Buddha Maitreya, the manifestation of loving-kindness, and learn to develop the three types of love according to the instructions of Venerable Geshe-la.
KMC Vajravarahi, Toulouse, France
May 30 – Jun 1
Post Spring Festival Retreat
with Gen Kelsang Chögyan, Resident Teacher of KMC Montréal, Canada
For this post-festival retreat, Gen Kelsang Chögyan, will give us a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding and practice of the precious instructions given by Venerable Geshe-la on how to develop the three types of love and how we ourselves can quickly become a Buddha of love and kindness by changing our basis of imputation through tantric practice.
This retreat will be a great opportunity to deepen these practices in the particularly propitious setting of the Kadampa Meditation Centre Vajravarahi in Toulouse.
Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre, Thornby Hall, UK
May 30 – Jun 1
Loving Kindness
with Gen Kelsang Demo US Western and Midwestern National Spiritual Director and Resident Teacher of IKRC Grand Canyon
Connect with Buddha Maitreya, the embodiment of loving-kindness, to train in developing a loving heart. We can experience a deepening of our compassionate purpose through meditation and heartfelt prayers.
This short retreat will be based on the teachings from the International NKT-IKBU Spring Festival. Suitable for all levels of experience, this is a perfect opportunity for those who couldn’t attend the festival to receive the benefit of these fresh instructions, or for those who attended to deepen their experience.
Mahabodhi Kadampa Meditation Centre, Brazil
May 31 – Jun 1
Solve Everyday Problems with a New Heart
With Gen Kelsang Rinchung, National Spiritual Director for Argentina and Uruguay and Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Centre Argentina
In this retreat with Gen Kelsang Rinchung, we will practise Maitreya Buddha’s sadhana of self-generation and train in the common and uncommon paths to develop a heart of loving kindness.
A unique opportunity to learn from this incredible teacher, with simultaneous translation from Spanish to Portuguese.
Kadampa Meditation Center Valencia
May 30 – Jun 1
How to Solve our Problems with Love
with Kelsang Pandita, Resident Teacher at KMC Granada
Based on teachings from the Spring Festival at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Center, Kelsang Pandita will guide a weekend retreat, integrating our Spiritual Guide’s teachings with daily life. This post-festival retreat is a unique opportunity to concentrate on understanding and practising the precious instructions given by Venerable Geshe-la on how to develop the three types of love and transform our own lives and thereby the lives of others, and truly heal our suffering world.
Kadampa Meditation Centre Manchester
May 29 – Jun 1
Love and Emptiness
With Kelsang Sama, Resident Teacher of KMC Manchester
Based on the teachings received at the International Spring Festival, this weekend retreat offers the opportunity to deepen our connection with Buddha Maitreya, the embodiment of the loving kindness of all Buddhas.
Through receiving Buddha Maitreya’s powerful blessings we can transform our mind into a vast ocean of pure love and through our faith and wisdom of imagination learn to create real happiness for ourself and all living beings.
Kadampa Meditation Center Albacete
May 30 – Jun 1
Love, the Solution to All your Daily Problems
with Kelsang Gema, Resident Teacher of KMC Albacete
Based on teachings from Spring Festival at Temple for World Peace set in the holy environment of Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, Kelsang Gema will guide a weekend retreat and we will have a unique opportunity to concentrate on understanding and practising the precious instructions given by Venerable Geshela on how to develop the three types of love. We will also learn how we ourselves can quickly become a Buddha of Loving-kindness by changing our basis of designation through tantric practice.
Through the teachings and meditations in this retreat, we will be able to radically transform our own lives, and with it the lives of others, and truly heal our world of suffering.