What We Offer. We offer something for everyone - weekly drop-in classes, workshops and retreats. But inner peace, outer peace is impossible Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche What to expect at a class. All our classes offer simple, practical methods for improving the quality of our life through developing inner peace. Each class consists of guided meditations and teachings that help us let go of negative states of mind and cultivate positive, healthy states. In this way solving daily problems and providing the happiness we seek. Our Centre. Our Centres provide welcoming, peaceful spaces for people to learn about meditation and Buddhism. Established for World Peace, our Dandenong Ranges Temple offers a range of classes and courses held in-person or live-streamed online. Modern Buddhism. We offer meditation classes that combine tried and tested techniques for developing inner peace and solving problems with a practical presentation of Buddha’s teachings, relevant to our modern world and daily experiences. The meaning and intention of Buddha’s original teachings have been preserved while presenting them in a clear and systematic way that anyone of any nationality, age, gender or religion can easily understand and put into practice. The New Kadampa Tradition I understand, through my own experience that Kadam Dharma is the supreme protection from suffering, the real method to solve human problems. Our intention in teaching Dharma is not just to spread Buddhism. We are trying to help the people of this world by giving them special methods to solve their daily problems and to achieve the permanent happiness of liberation Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. FOUNDER OF THE NEW KADAMPA TRADITION Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. Geshe-la, as he is affectionately called by his students, is primarily responsible for the worldwide revival of Kadampa Buddhism in our time.