Menlha Kadampa Buddhist Center, Lambertville, NJ

Menlha Kadampa Buddhist Center

Upcoming Events

December 3, 2023 (Sunday) 10:30 am - 12 noon
Prayers for World Peace
This class includes a guided meditation, a prayer dedicated to world peace, and a teaching on a Buddhist topic. Increase your wisdom, grow your compassion, and familiarize your mind with the experience of inner peace through meditation. Everyone is welcome. Suggested donation $15. No registration required. Simply show up!
December 6, 2023 (Wednesday) 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Worrying is easy. What we don't often realize is that it also ruins our happiness.

Rob will give teachings and guide meditations that lead to mental well-being, peace and happiness, even when life is very difficult. He will explain how we can permanently solve all our suffering and problems - our unpleasant feelings - and accomplish the real meaning of our human life through receiving Buddha's teachings. Each week you will receive practical advice that you can put into practice immediately. Over time, these new understandings will not only enrich our life, but have life changing results. How fortunate we are! Everyone is welcome. $12 per person; free with monthly membership. No registration required. Simply show up!
December 10, 2023 (Sunday) 10:30 am - 12 noon
Prayers for World Peace
This class includes a guided meditation, a prayer dedicated to world peace, and a teaching on a Buddhist topic. Increase your wisdom, grow your compassion, and familiarize your mind with the experience of inner peace through meditation. Everyone is welcome. Suggested donation $15. No registration required. Simply show up!
December 13, 2023 (Wednesday) 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Worrying is easy. What we don't often realize is that it also ruins our happiness.

Rob will give teachings and guide meditations that lead to mental well-being, peace and happiness, even when life is very difficult. He will explain how we can permanently solve all our suffering and problems - our unpleasant feelings - and accomplish the real meaning of our human life through receiving Buddha's teachings. Each week you will receive practical advice that you can put into practice immediately. Over time, these new understandings will not only enrich our life, but have life changing results. How fortunate we are! Everyone is welcome. $12 per person; free with monthly membership. No registration required. Simply show up!
December 16, 2023 (Saturday) 10-11:30am
Happiness Not Humbug
In his holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens shows us why misery and loneliness accompany a life lived for purely selfish ends.

In this workshop Rob will share inspirational wisdom and the tools that Buddha has given us to change and grow. This will lead to finding meaning and happiness during the holidays and all year round.
December 17, 2023 (Sunday) 10:30 am - 12 noon
Prayers for World Peace
This class includes a guided meditation, a prayer dedicated to world peace, and a teaching on a Buddhist topic. Increase your wisdom, grow your compassion, and familiarize your mind with the experience of inner peace through meditation. Everyone is welcome. Suggested donation $15. No registration required. Simply show up!
December 20, 2023 (Wednesday) 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Worrying is easy. What we don't often realize is that it also ruins our happiness.

Rob will give teachings and guide meditations that lead to mental well-being, peace and happiness, even when life is very difficult. He will explain how we can permanently solve all our suffering and problems - our unpleasant feelings - and accomplish the real meaning of our human life through receiving Buddha's teachings. Each week you will receive practical advice that you can put into practice immediately. Over time, these new understandings will not only enrich our life, but have life changing results. How fortunate we are! Everyone is welcome. $12 per person; free with monthly membership. No registration required. Simply show up!
December 31, 2023 (Sunday) 10am-12:30pm
New Year's Eve Meditation Celebration
oin us for our annual popular New Year's Eve event and start early to ring in the New Year in a joyful and meaningful way!

​From 10 to 11:30 am, Gen Chogyop will offer a brief introduction to the practice of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, a beautiful arrangement of prayers and chanted mantra recitation. Then we will engage in the practice along with a guided meditation to set our positive intention for the new year.

After that we can enjoy hors d'oeuvres and the company of friends with a holiday brunch. This is a fantastic way to begin the new year with a peaceful, positive state of mind, making dedications and good wishes on behalf of our family, friends and the world. Don't miss it!

About Menlha Kadampa Buddhist Center

MODERN BUDDHISM & MEDITATION FOR EVERYONE.

Menlha Kadampa Buddhist Center is a 501(c)3 volunteer-led charitable organization, and one of more than 1,200 Kadampa centers and branches now established throughout the world. We are located in the quaint city of Lambertville, NJ. We have reopened our physical space and all of our drop-in classes & events are offered in-person, as well as some of our chanted prayers. We look forward to welcoming everyone to our new space!

The Indian Buddhist master, Venerable Atisha, was responsible for reintroducing the entirety of Buddhism into Tibet in the 11th century. Three hundred years later, the great Buddhist yogi and scholar, Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), appeared in Tibet and widely promoted Atisha’s Lamrim instructions for the people of that time. It was a golden age in Tibet in which thousands of Tibetans were inspired by Je Tsongkhapa's teachings and immaculate example. His followers became known as the "New Kadampas" and to this day Kadampa Buddhists throughout the world study his teachings and strive to put them into practice.

After arriving in the West in 1977, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche began working to establish a modern presentation of the Kadampa lineage in the West. This presentation is Modern Kadampa Buddhism. The teachings of this tradition retain all of the essential meanings and insights of Buddha's original teachings and are presented in a way that is practical and suitable for modern people.

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