Buddhafield Dharma Parlour 2025 Programme

Wednesday 16 July 2025 to Sunday 20 July 2025

We are happy to announce the programme for the Dharma Parlour area this year at Buddhafield Festival.

Dharma is a sanskrit word in buddhism that means “the truth” and is refers to the teachings of the Buddha.

The Dharma Parlour runs talks, workshops, panels and dharma study groups. There are also some rituals and meditations in this space and Eight Step Recovery Meetings.

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Meditate with Paramananda

A precious opportunity to spend meditating with others and exploring what comes up. Paramananda is a practitioner of great depth, breadth and a sense of humour and down-to-earthness that helps us to have the courage to just be. You never now what path he will invite you to journey on or what poems will make an appearance to inspire and guide.

PLEASE BOOK, as space is limited.

Death Conversation Cafe, Sunday 29th June 2.30-4.30pm

An intimate, safe space to talk about any matters to do with death and dying in a supportive, non-sectarian setting.

We have been living through difficult times for the world, and humanity. Perhaps more than ever, we are pushed to explore our own mortality and what life means to us.

Based on the principles of Death Café, an initiative set up in 2011 by psychotherapis Jon Underwood, these gatherings respond to what many of us recognise as a lack of such opportunities in our...

‘Reimagining Buddhism’ coming soon in 2025!

We are delighted to give you a preview of an important new book by Vishvapani, which is due out in August 2025.

Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and his Teachings is a sparkling, deeply felt and penetrating account of the English Buddhist teacher, Urgyen Sangharakshita (1925–2018) – one of the most complex and brilliant figures in modern Buddhism. 

Drawing on the whole of Sangharakshita’s vast output, Vishvapani argues that Sangharakshita was primarily an ‘image thinker.’ He then sets out to trace the...