Buddhafield Base in the City - Bristol - full line-up announced

🚀Our line-up is nearly finalised! Check out our website for more info and for full details about the fabulous folk who’ll be:

Inspiring us with workshops and talks, meditation and bodywork.

Entertaining and moving us with live music and DJ sets.

Enabling us to beatbox, weave baskets, do woodland crafts together, sing and play together and more.

This is a conscious, drug and alcohol-free event with an outdoor fire, chai, and singalongs under the moon. You are encouraged to bring your whole heart, a refillable water bottle...

Wisdom Online

From 4 March - 22 April we are running an online course on the Heart Sutra for Order Members. Each week you will receive videos via email, and there will be two live sessions with Vessantara, 25 March and 22 April.

You can register for this course here.

We are also holding a retreat on the Diamond Sutra at Adhisthana 24 April - 3 May - available in person and online. More information here.

Gunaketu becomes General Secretary of the Buddhist Federation of Norway

Dear Friends,

Recently I was appointed General Secretary of the Buddhist Federation of Norway (BNF), having been on the board of trustees since 2000. That was the year I started Triratna’s Oslo Buddhist Centre, returning home after many years at the Manchester Buddhist Centre.

The BNF is an umbrella organisation with 16 member communities with about 16,000 members, founded in 1979. Created to enable an application for money from the Norwegian government to fund Buddhist...

Chair's Letter – January 2024

Dear Order members and friends,

December and January were relatively quiet months for me. Zoom meetings and emails tend to ease up over the festive season and I was able to spend two weeks in Wales doing house repairs and having some time to myself as well as catching up with family; it was my mother’s 95th birthday in early January.

The women’s Area Order weekend back at the beginning of December – which...

An immersion in the Dharma

One day a devotee asked why it was that, while so many embarked on the spiritual life, so few seemed to make real progress. Ramdas’s reply was unequivocal. They failed to make any real progress for two reasons, he said. Firstly, because they have no clear idea of the
goal they wished to reach. Secondly, because they have no clear idea of how to get there.

From the young Sangharakshita’s account of his visit to Ramdas at Anandashram in South India during...