Visiting presenters
For further details please look at the Calendar
Geshe Graham Woodhouse - Praise to Dependent Relativity
Weekends 28 & 29 April
10am - 5pm
Suggested donation £54 for each weekend
(including simple vegetarian lunch)
Gareth Sparham: Is there a Mind in Enlightenment?
A seminar on the Perfection of Wisdom
Weekend 19 and 20 May
10am - 5pm
Suggested donation £54
(includes £14 for refreshments and simple vegetarian lunch on both days)
The perfection of Wisdom is the core of Mahayana Buddhism. It is not just about understanding reality, emptiness. It is also very much about practice in the light of that understanding and about how to bring compassion informed by that understanding into our everyday lives.
Mahayana meditation is characterised by a particular intensity of clarity and an expansivenes of awareness.
Gareth has devoted a good portion of his life to studying and meditating on the Perfection of Wisdom. He is translating many of the key texts for its study, so helping people who don't have Sanskrit or Tibetan to access this rich vein of practice advice. He is utterly charming, affable, and carries his vast knowledge lightly and approachably. Come along and prepare to stretch and flex your mind
Venerable Robina Courtin - The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra (an introduction)
Weekend 2 & 3 June
10am - 5pm
Suggeted donation £54 (includes lunch)
Venerable Sangye Khadro - Nurturing the Kind Heart
Weekend 7 & 8 July
10am - 5pm
Suggested donation £54 (includes lunch)
Tashilhunpo monks - Buddha Akshobhya with the Eight Goddesses of Good Fortune: sand mandala for removal of anger
Monday 6 - Friday 10 August
10am - 5pm
Donation bowl
Drop in on the Tashilhunpo monks as they create a beautiful and vibrant sand mandala of the Buddha Akshobhya surrounded by the eight goddesses of good luck.
Meditation on the Buddha Akshobhya is used to purify the imprints laid down by anger and the tendencies towards getting angry that lie in our minds. Just to see the completed mandala is to set a strong imprint for enlightenment firmly in the deepest recesses of the mind.
