Discovering Your Pure Self: The Yoga of Buddha Heruka

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Special Event! Visiting Guest Teacher

Fri 14 - Sun 16 August 2026

See sessions below

Discovering Your Pure Self: The Yoga of Buddha Heruka

At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre, Golders Green

With Guest Teacher, Buddhist Nun Gen Kelsang Devi

Following on from the NKT-IKBU International Summer Festival at Manjushri KMC in Cumbria, Gen Kelsang Devi will lead a retreat based on the teachings and commentaries received at this Festival at Heruka KMC.

On this special retreat you will learn everything you need for a qualified Tantric practice, the supreme quick path to enlightenment, and in this way begin getting to know your pure self. Gen Devi will teach and guide meditations on the Heruka body mandala within the short, condensed practice called The Yoga of Buddha Heruka.

"The emptiness that is explained in Buddha’s Sutra teachings,
And the great bliss that is explained in Buddha’s Tantric teachings –
The union of these two is the very essence of Buddha’s eighty-four thousand teachings.
May the doctrine of Conqueror Losang Dragpa flourish for evermore."

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

This retreat is for those who have previously received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini.

About the teacher

Gen Kelsang Devi is the Principal Teacher of Kailash International Retreat Centre and Kadampa Meditation Centre Switzerland. She is a modern Buddhist nun and senior international teacher of the New Kadampa Tradition, having studied and practised Kadampa Buddhism for over 25 years under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.

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Gen Devi has extensive experience of silent meditation retreat herself, as well as teaching and skilfully guiding numerous retreats throughout the world. Gen Devi’s experience makes her teachings and guidance in retreats very powerful. She is well known for her joyful warmth and humour, as well as her clear and practical presentation of the teachings. She is an inspiring example of modern Buddhism in practice and is dedicated to helping everyone discover Buddha’s timeless wisdom and find real, lasting happiness.

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Free for Gold and Platinum Members

50% off for Silver Members

Daily Lunch
A home-cooked vegetarian lunch is for £6 each day for everybody.

Members can attend in person or join the retreat live via Zoom. Become a member.

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Schedule

Fri 14 - Sun 16 August
  • Session 1: 9am - 10:15am
  • Session 2: 11:15am - 12:30pm
  • Lunch: 12:30 - 2:30pm
  • Session 3: 2:30pm - 3:45pm
  • Session 4: 4:45pm - 6:00pm

The final session on Sunday, Session 4, will be Wishfulfilling Jewel puja with tsog

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"When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.” 

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso