Today we heard that we exchanged contracts at Pant-y-porthman Farm to be our meditation centre, Drala Jong. It is difficult to fully express how we feel at the moment. We are filled with joy, of course. It's the end of a long journey since we started fundraising, and it's the beginning of a longer [...]
“The mind benefits from stillness. The body benefits from movement.” — Ngakma Nor’dzin Pamo Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin Tridral is running in the Cardiff 10K to raise money to create Drala Jong, a Buddhist Meditation Centre in Wales. ’ö-Dzin, and his wife Ngakma Nor’dzin Pamo, have been practising Buddhism for 40 years and are teachers within [...]
Saga Dawa Düchen (sa ga zLa ba dus chen / ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་) is one of the four major Buddhist calendar events. It occurs on the full moon (the 15th day) of the fourth Himalayan Buddhist lunar month. This year Saga Dawa begins on the 4th of June and continues to the 2nd of July. This [...]
World meditation day, scheduled for the 21st of May 2019, is a worldwide annual event which aims at raising awareness of the benefits of meditation. Why meditate The benefits of meditation for oneself and others, and thus for humanity as a whole, are vast. Modern science and ancient traditions seem to agree on the [...]
Dear all, This is a heartfelt thank you to you all - and to the anonymous donor - for the wonderful success of the matching funds campaign. The campaign exceeded the matching limit of £4,444 considerably. Thanks to the engagement of so many people, we raised £7,014 - which makes a total of £11,458. [...]
This weekend, Sang-ngak-chö-dzong, the charity that supports the work of the Aro gTér tradition in the UK was pleased to host its largest event to date. To celebrate a quarter of a century of the charity's fruitful existence, the day was approached as a festival of Aro gTér Buddhism. After months of detailed planning [...]
In an interview for 'The Bristol Magazine', Khandro Déchen describes what brought her to Buddhism, how she met Ngak’chang Rinpoche and she also shares five tips for integrating Buddhism into everyday life. “I wasn’t searching for religion when I found Buddhism,” says Khandro Déchen, born in Newbury and raised in a non-religious family. “I had an [...]
The Art of Living is the act of living life AS Art. This can only really be understood if we first look at the more obvious quotidian Arts such as cooking, dining, speaking, listening, deportment, and any facet of life where natural elegance can become the focus of appreciation and presence. The Art of [...]
What follows below is an excerpt from an article published in the magazine Buddhist Door Global. There is no area of life that is ever separate from practice; whether we’re in a business meeting with the board, eating paella and drinking Prosecco with friends, roaring with laughter at a bad joke, hang gliding across [...]
For anyone who has been concerned by the revelations of abuse in the world of Vajrayana Buddhism, the Lineage Lamas of the Aro gTér Lineage have written a text outlining the five precept guidelines which all Aro gTér teachers, abide by. "Those who approach the Confederate Sanghas of Aro can expect its teachers to [...]
