Due to the current pandemic we are currently running our Discover Buddhism classes on Tuesday evening and Saturday morning online using Zoom. If you would like to attend one of these classes please click this email link to request an invitation: bristol@dechen.org The Sakya Centre and activities are reliant on donations, if you would like…
Read moreIn response to the temporary closure of the Sakya Centre, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we have now prepared a page of Videos for Meditation and Reflection which you can work with on a weekly basis. We hope you will find this interesting and useful in your understanding and practice of the Buddhist Path
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In line with government requirements, and in order to protect members of the Centre and the public from the threats posed by the Corona Virus (COVID-19), we are for the time being suspending our public meetings on: Tuesday evenings, Wednesday mornings and Saturday mornings (see here for our meetings on Zoom). We will be reviewing…
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Lama Jampa Thaye arrived Sakya Buddhist Centre Bristol on Friday 24 January, accompanied by Dechen Dolma, Kate and the four legged member of the family, Roxie. On Saturday, people came from across the UK to receive further teachings on the mahayana Buddhist path from the great Sakya master, Chogyal Phakpa. This section of the text…
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Last weekend saw the annual Chenrezik retreat at Poulstone Court Retreat Centre in Herefordshire led by Liz Godfrey and David Armstrong. This has become something of a fixture in the Dechen calendar, and this year it was attended by members from Sakya Bristol and Exeter, but also sangha from Kagyu Ling in Manchester – 19…
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On Saturday the Exeter and North Devon Sakya groups were delighted to welcome back David Armstrong for his biannual visit to lead a meditation day. On this occasion we were taken through part one of Chogyal Phakpa’s “Garland of Jewels” which Lama Jampa began at the Sakya centre in Bristol earlier in the year. This…
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On 5 October, around 100 people from across the UK gathered to hear Lama Jampa Thaye teach part three of ‘A Garland of Jewels’. This text, beautifully written in 204 verses, was composed by the 13th century Sakya master, Chogyal Phakpa for the Mongol Prince Gibek Timur and surveys the whole of the Buddhist path,…
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On Wednesday 31st July the Centre received an unusual visit from members of the Oxford Buddhist Vihara, the home of a group of monks and a meeting point for a community of Buddhists from a variety of backgrounds, centred on the Theravada Buddhism practised in Southern and South-Eastern Asia. More than twenty monks and lay…
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A sunny Sunday 30 June was the setting for our study and meditation day on the second part of Sakya Pandita’s ‘Reply to Nyimo Gomchen’. This study text, written in the 13th century by the Sakya master, Sakya Pandita, contains key points about dharma, clarifying many of the queries we may have about following the…
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It is turning out to be a wild, unpredictable and not particularly summery June this year. Fortunately, the weather did not deter over 100 people from coming to Bristol to receive teachings from Lama Jampa Thaye. The day was well worth braving the elements for. In the morning, Lama Jampa gave the second part of…
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