Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh

09/12/2025

🥳Blast from the Past - New Years Eve Celebration 2019!!🎉

Here are some pictures from the NYE Celebration 2019 here at the Centre for you to enjoy! Looking for a beautiful and meaningful way to celebrate the upcoming New Year?Join us for an uplifting, alcohol-free evening filled with connection, inspiration, and peace — right in the heart of the city.

Start the evening with a cosy mocktail reception, then enjoy guided meditations and teachings to help you reflect, gently let go of 2025, and set heartfelt intentions for 2026. In this way, we can begin our inner glow-up for the New Year — awakening our potential for happiness, peace, and purpose.

After a delicious vegetarian meal shared with others, we’ll gather by candlelight to meditate on compassion and conclude the night with peaceful mantra chanting over the bells – all dedicated to world peace. A beautiful, positive start to the year ahead!

For more details and booking visit: https://meditateinedinburgh.org/hogmanay-meditation-celebration/

💗Everyone Welcome 💗

08/12/2025

🥳🎂Happy Birthday Kelsang Varahi, Adam, Arek & Jude! 🎉🎈

During the weekend, we had a little Sangha celebration for the birthdays of Kelsang Varahi - our wonderful Admin Director, Adam, our wonderful Daily Manager, Arek, our amazing Centre Resident (and bus driver) & Jude, our wonderful Kadampa Kids Club Teacher.

Here are a few pics...💗

07/12/2025

💗The 'Giving Love' Theme continues in our Introductory classes this week💗

Edinburgh in Leith:
💕Mon 8 Dec 11am - 12pm with Gen Kelsang Tubchen
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/monday-morning-class/
💕Wed 10 Dec 7 - 8pm with Jill
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/simply-meditate/

in Falkirk
💕Wed 10 Dec; 11.30am - 12.30pm with Gen Kelsang Tubchen
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/falkirk-drop-in-class/

Herd House in Dundee
💕Wed 10 Dec; 7 - 8.15pm with Catherine
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/dundee-drop-in-class/

General Hospital in Melrose:
💕Thurs 11 Dec; 7 - 8.15pm with Chammy
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/melrose-meditation-class-3/

Everyone Welcome 🫶

06/12/2025

🤍Our Vajrasattva Weekend Retreat has started!🤍

This weekend we are engaging in a purification retreat using the powerful practice of Buddha Vajrasattva.

Kind volunteers have spent the morning preparing a beautiful offering table as well as preparing a yummy lunch for people to share in the break.

Everyone is welcome to come along to the retreat. 💗

For more details see: https://meditateinedinburgh.org/the-peace-of-a-pure-mind/

05/12/2025

🔇🔕🙊Need a bit of quiet and calm before the holidays?😊💗🌟

CALM IN THE CHAOS - SILENT RETREAT DAY WITH GEN TUBCHEN
SUNDAY 21 DECEMBER | 11AM - 4PM

Whether you’re looking for a peaceful pause from the holiday rush, seeking some stillness in a busy season, or simply want a quiet space for yourself during the Christmas period, this silent retreat day offers a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone.

The festive season can bring many experiences — activity, expectations, and celebrations for some; quiet, solitude, or reflection for others. Whatever your circumstances, this day provides an opportunity to step away from the noise and immerse yourself in stillness, reflection, and calm.

For more details and booking 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/calm-in-the-chaos-silent-day-retreat/

Everyone Welcome 💗

04/12/2025

03/12/2025

💗WEDNESDAY 7PM CLASS DECEMBER THEME: 'GIVING LOVE'😊

At this time of year, we often look for happiness in material things, exchanging presents, or enjoying the company of family and friends. When everything lines up, this can feel like a perfect Christmas. But because of our expectations around love and happiness, the festive period can just as easily bring disappointment, conflict, or loneliness.

In this meditation class series, we will explore meditation practices that help us experience pure, unconditional love. By developing this mind, we can solve many of our inner problems and improve our relationships. We will discover a vast, inclusive love that embraces all living beings in our troubled world—a love that protects us, connects us, and brings us inner peace whether we are alone or surrounded by others.

For more details and booking: https://meditateinedinburgh.org/simply-meditate/

Everyone Welcome 💗

02/12/2025

✌Here is a video glimpse of the Tuesday evening class vibe at the Centre!😊

Join us this evening for the final topics of the meditation class series based on Advice from Atisha's Heart with Gen Kelsang Tubchen.

For more details and booking: https://meditateinedinburgh.org/tuesday-evening-meditation-class/

Everyone Welcome💗

01/12/2025

🌟Here are some photos of the wonderful weekend course at Manjushri KMC with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director of the NKT. 🌟

We learned about the simple yet powerful practice of Vajrasattva that functions to purify our mind of all obstacles to the happiness of spiritual realisations.

Next weekend, 6 & 7 December, we will be engaging in the practice during our 'The Peace of a Pure Mind' 2-day guided retreat with Gen Tubchen.

For more details and booking 👉 https://meditateinedinburgh.org/the-peace-of-a-pure-mind/

Everybody welcome to come along and discover this beautiful practice. 💗

30/11/2025

📣THIS WEEK @ KMC EDINBURGH & BRANCHES 😊

This week, we start our new December theme 'Peace'. Our main Tuesday evening class with Gen Tubchen is the last in the series of 'Advice from Atisha's Heart - don't miss out!

In the Monday morning and Wednesday evening classes as well as the wonderful branch classes in Falkirk, Dundee & Melrose the topic is 'Giving Love'. 💗

We've tried to offer many opportunities for you to escape the festive rush. Join us for our guided retreat next weekend 'The Peace of a Pure MInd' for a mind detox. If you need to totally escape we have a silent day retreat 'Calm in the Chaos' on Sunday 21 December. 🧘🏻

The last of our Kids Club dates for this year is Saturday 13. Its been wonderful to introduce this workshop into the programme since the summer and to see the classes do so well. It will be back in January - see webpage for 2026 dates. 🧑‍🧒‍🧒.

The Centre will be closed from Monday 22 December until our Hogmanay Celebration 🎊 so book in some time to strengthen your peaceful mind before the break!

For more details on all the above classes & events 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/

Everyone Welcome 💗

29/11/2025

🎄🎅YOU are warmly invited to our Happiness Hour & Festive Community Meal❄️🎁
SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER | 11am - 2pm with Gen Tubchen & all the Team

Take a breather from the bustle of Christmas and enjoy a peaceful, heart-warming morning with our community. This special festive edition of Happiness Hour is all about slowing down, reconnecting, and giving ourselves (and others!) the gift of inner peace.

🎄11.00 – 12.00 – Festive Happiness Hour

Relax into simple guided meditations on inner peace and giving love — the perfect antidote to Christmas stress. Enjoy the special connection that comes from being silent and meditating in the company of others.

🎄12.00 – 2.00 – Festive Fun
Community Vegetarian Christmas Buffet (Bring & Share)

After the meditation, stay for a cosy vegetarian buffet lunch together.
Bring along any sweet or savoury vegetarian dish or snack you’d like to share, and we’ll provide some delicious non-alcoholic festive drinks. It’s a lovely chance to chat, laugh, and enjoy being part of a supportive community.

Everyone is warmly welcome — bring friends, family, or just yourself. 💗💗

28/11/2025

📢Centre Closed till Monday🏰🚗💃💃💃

We're off to Manjushri Centre this weekend for the Special Weekend Course with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, the General Spiritual Director of the NKT.

Please note that you can join the course online via livestream. You can book at: https://manjushri.org/events-new/pure-mind-pure-world

KMC Edinburgh will reopen on Monday for our morning class with Gen Tubchen 11am - 12pm on the December Introductory Class topic of 'Giving Love'. 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/monday-morning-class/

Next weekend 6 & 7 December we have our guided retreat 'The Peace of a Pure Mind' with Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Tubchen. 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/the-peace-of-a-pure-mind/

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 💗