Kadampa Meditation Centre Manchester

24/04/2026

Group photo from our Away weekend retreat to Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre last weekend!

Find out more about our upcoming retreats and courses 🫶🏻 https://meditateinmcr.org/event/

23/04/2026

Join us tomorrow!!

Help us to keep our Dharma centre clean and welcoming for all by lending a hand with some light jobs such as cleaning and maintenance, followed by a community gathering with refreshments.

Everyone welcome 🌟

21/04/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟏-𝟐𝐩𝐦

A half day meditation course with Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Drolkyi

Learn meditations and ways of thinking that enable us to gain more control of our mind, so that we can stop giving power to our mental busyness and negative mental habits that destroy our inner peace and experience of happiness.

‘Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind’ – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, How to Transform Your Life

Everyone is welcome to join us for this morning course, no experience of meditation is necessary!

More info and booking 🫶🏻 https://meditateinmcr.org/events/lettinggoofmentalbusyness/

14/04/2026

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆! 🌟

Learn meditations and ways of thinking that enable us to gain more control of our mind, so that we can stop giving power to our mental busyness and negative mental habits that destroy our inner peace.

‘Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind’ – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, How to Transform Your Life

More info and booking ❤️ https://meditateinmcr.org/events/lettinggoofmentalbusyness/

11/04/2026

Thursday evenings in Chorlton 7-8:30pm | With Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Drolkyi 🌟

This four-week course will guide you in discovering a deeper sense of inner balance and learning how to live in harmony with the people and circumstances around you.

So often our mind feels difficult to control, with thoughts blown here and there like a balloon in the wind. We search for lasting satisfaction, yet it can seem just out of reach, and our moods rise and fall with the changing conditions of life.

Through the meditations taught on this course, we learn to develop inner space, clarity and peace. Gradually we cultivate mental equilibrium- a balanced, stable mind that remains happy despite the ever-changing circumstances of life.

Join us to explore simple yet powerful meditations that can help you cultivate lasting peace and a more joyful, balanced life.

Book here: https://meditateinmcr.org/events/findingbalance/

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

Nyungnay retreat | 14th-15th April 🤍

Nyungnay is one of our most precious Kadampa Dharma Jewels and as a centre practice we do it once a year. Wrapped within the practice of ‘Mahayana Precepts’, it involves fasting and making 3 sessions of prostrations, with the sadhana ‘Drop of Essential Nectar.’

We spend two days with thousand-armed (eleven-faced) Avalokiteshvara – ‘Mahakaruna’ – the nature of our Guru’s great compassion, making exquisite offerings, praises and prostrations and thereby accumulate huge merit, purify vast negativity for ourself and others and receive the most powerful blessing to propel ourself swiftly along our path to enlightenment.

Everyone is welcome to join for this special retreat on Buddha’s enlightenment day!

https://meditateinmcr.org/events/nyungnay/

04/04/2026

Happy NKT Day! ❤️

We enjoyed Gen Drolkyi’s wonderful first half day course today, learning how we can make our mind as stable as a mountain and as peaceful as the depths of an ocean through the practice of patient acceptance 🌟

Finishing the day with Offering to the Spiritual Guide prayers!

Join us for our four week course starting w/b 13th April ‘Finding balance’ ❤️ https://meditateinmcr.org/events/findingbalance/

30/03/2026

On this half day workshop, Gen Drolkyi will show how the mind of patient acceptance is an inner strength. It is not a passive reaction but rather a strong active response to difficulty. Patience keeps our mind stable and peaceful- as stable as a mountain and as peaceful as the depths of an ocean.

Everyone is welcome, no experience of meditation is necessary ⛰️

A Mind as Stable as a Mountain | Saturday 4th April 10:30-1pm | with New Resident Teacher of KMC Manchester Gen Kelsang Drolkyi