Open Day 2025

HELD AT KAMALASHILA TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTRE
​8 February 2025

What a wonderful collection of humans visited Kamalashila on our recent Open Day! Ostensibly drawn by curiosity and an interest in spirituality, these new visitors arrived with beautiful insights of their own. 

“These are different communities, but they are connected… It’s connecting communities… like this place…” ~ Denise

“My painting is of fire: from the darkness of the fuel below, comes the light…” ~ Roxana 

“There are lots of different people on my mani stone, represented by the dots… angry people, kind people, all sorts of people. The red between them is the joy and love that connects them all. And the white at the centre, that all the people are connected to, whether we see it or not, is the light, is spirituality.” ~ Kimberley 

The invitation to take a tour of the gompa and the property, as well as to explore meditation, were well taken up, and visitors enjoyed cake, chai and chats, as well as a delicious Tibetan lunch cooked by Karma la.

Both children and adults enjoyed the peaceful creativity of painting their own Mani Stones and shared with each other tales of life and their wishes for the world, captured in their artwork.

Thank you to all our raffle prize sponsors including Narooma Pharmacy and sangha members. Congratulations to winners of the raffle, especially young Oliver!

​And thank you to all who attended, visitors and volunteers alike, for the beautiful atmosphere of gentle harmony that was created today at Kamalashila Tibetan Buddhist Centre.