Kadampa Meditation Center Hollywood

Kadampa Meditation Center Hollywood is a Temple dedicated to bringing peace and happiness to the world, and to removing suffering, through offering the methods of meditation and modern Buddhism. We aim to teach people how to develop pure, positive states of mind, giving practical tools to transform the difficulties of everyday life into an opportunity for personal growth and transformation. We wish to inspire and empower people to reach their full spiritual potential in order to be of greatest benefit to their family, friends and the world.

Kadampa Meditation Center Hollywood is a non-profit organization that is part of the New Kadampa Tradition-International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU), an international association of Mahayana Buddhist study and meditation centers founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1991. The purpose of the NKT-IKBU is to preserve and promote the essence of Buddha’s teachings in a form that is suited to the modern world and way of life.

There are over 1200 Kadampa Centers and groups throughout the world. Locally, the NKT-IKBU has 8 Centers in California with over 30 affiliated branches, and 54 Centers with hundreds of branches throughout the United States.

The Kadampa Meditation Center Hollywood Temple offers a rich spiritual program for all levels of interest through a variety of meditation classes, courses, special events and retreats. You don’t need any experience of meditation – simply turn up for any of the programs that are provided. Explore our web-site to discover what we can offer you.

How did a Kadampa Buddhist Temple for World Peace arise in Los Feliz, Hollywood? Buddha originally gave teachings in, over 2600 years ago. Those teachings subsequently spread to Tibet and other eastern countries, only moving to the rest of the world quite recently. The history of the New Kadampa Tradition in America, and now Hollywood, can be traced to 1977. At this time, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, who lived in at the time, accepted a request to teach in the West, leaving his home, his Teacher, his family, his culture and everything he knew to give Buddha’s teachings to a group of students in a castle in the Lake District of rural England. Subsequently, over the course of the next 36 years, “Geshe-la” as he is affectionately called, has worked continuously to help Kadampa Buddhism spread throughout the world for the first time. In 1991, Geshe-la gave his inaugural teachings in the United States to a group of 50 students in Seattle, Washington. Later, Venerable Geshe-la would return to live as a Resident Teacher in Dallas, Texas, subsequently teaching to larger audiences throughout the United States and the world. Through Venerable Geshe-la’s dedication and loving kindness, a Temple has now arisen in Hollywood, California. Kadampa Meditation Center Hollywood is the result of the efforts of countless people over the past thirty-five years. See below for a more detailed timeline of events…