Hogmanay Meditation & Celebration | Dec 31
December 31, 2018 @ 8:30 pm - January 1, 2019 @ 12:30 am
Hogmanay Meditation & Celebration
An Alternative New Year's Eve
About the Event
Join us for delicious vegetarian canapes and non-alcoholic drinks and be guided in a reflective and uplifting candle lit meditation with Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Tubchen. Before midnight we will engage in beautiful chanted prayers to Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, and see in the New Year with a powerful mantra dedicated to world peace.
Date, Time & Schedule
Monday 31 December | 8.30pm-12.30am
8.30-9.15pm reception
9.15-10.15pm candle lit meditation
10.15-11.30pm non-alcoholic cocktails & vegetarian canapes
11.30pm-12.15am chanted prayers for world peace
12.15-12.30am toast to the new year
Location
Kadampa Meditation Centre Glasgow, 78 Hutcheson Street, Glasgow G1 1SH
Price
£15 | £10 members
About the Teacher
Gen Kelsang Tubchen is the Resident Teacher at KMC Glasgow. She is the former Resident Teacher of Nordic Kadampa Meditation Centre in Norway and former National Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition in the Nordic region.
Gen Tubchen has been a close disciple of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for many years, and in 2003 ordained as a Buddhist nun. An inspiring and gifted teacher, she is loved for her clear, powerful and practical teachings and her deep experience of retreat.
With Resident Teacher, Gen Kelsang Tubchen