by avik.d | Nov 14, 2025 | events
Retreat at Serpom Monastery, Bylakuppe Atish Dipankar Dhyan Kendra’s annual retreat was held in the Serpom Thoesam Norling Monastery campus at Bylakuppe, Karnataka, from September 28 to October 5, 2025. The topic was Je Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path...
by avik.d | Nov 14, 2025 | events
Medicine Buddha Festival, Serpom Monastery Our annual retreat at Bylakuppe coincided with the monthlong Medicine Buddha Festival held at Serpom Thoesam Norling Monastery, and we had the rare fortune of attending the special prayers performed by hundreds of monks for...
by avik.d | Aug 18, 2025 | events
Green Tara Empowerment Several members received the Buddha Green Tara Empowerment online on August 3, in the presence of our teacher Dr Anindya Chatterjee at Atish Dipankar Dhyan Kendra in Salt Lake. Buddha Green Tara, the female Buddha of active compassion who, as...
by avik.d | Jun 11, 2025 | events
Celebrating Geshe La’s Birthday We celebrated the joyous occasion of our spiritual guide Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche’s birth anniversary (June 4, 1931) with a special programme of prayers, guided meditation and music on June 7 at our meditation centre in...
by avik.d | May 28, 2025 | events
Buddha Jayanti 2025 Atish Dipankar Dhyan Kendra marked Buddha Jayanti — the birth, enlightenment and passing of Shakyamuni Buddha — with an evening of music, recitation, talk and film screening at Indumati Sabhagriha, Jadavpur, on May 12. The programme began with...
by avik.d | May 27, 2025 | events
Retreat on Equanimity A weekend retreat on ‘Building the Foundation of an Equanimous Mind’ was held in-person and online at Atish Dipankar Dhyan Kendra’s meditation centre in Kolkata from March 28 to 31. Under the guidance of Dr Anindya Chatterjee, the participants...
