Buddhafield: Buddhism, Meditation and Community
Next retreat: Triratna International Retreat | Café @: Trirtana International Retreat
Buddhafield Festival 2012 | Wednesday 11 — Sunday 15 July | Booking now!
Lastest news
Big Fat Buddha Meets Danceitation!
We’re excited to announce that Jayagita will be joining the team of The Big fat Buddha retreat, to offer daily sessions of Danceitation, a wonderful fusion of meditation and free-form dance. Hopefully two of the sessions will be with live improvised music if we get plenty of musicians coming! She’ll also be running workshops at the Buddhafield Festival.
More on the Buddhafield Blog.
Floati Jo, Buddhafield Festival Dance Space Co-ordinator, is holding a Dharma Dance evening, with Psy-trance DJ’s including Glacid, to raise money for the Buddahfield Land Appeal. There will also be a chill out tent and acoustic stage. This is being held near Totnes on the 12th May 2012, 8pm till late. It will be £5 entry, tickets available from Red Wizard cafe in Totnes or contact Jo for more information on floatijo@yahoo.com or 07794 016659.
Buddhafield Blog: The Silence of Walking
Lousie has just come home from working and walking the 2012 Sacred Landscape Yatra, a walking retreat along the Ridgeway. She’s shared her experiences in a new blog post.
Shantikara has become the Men’s Mitra Convenor for Buddhafield!
Any male Mitras out there with a connection to Buddhafield are invited to . Please let him know how you're getting on, and any suggestions you might have for taking the Buddhafield Men's Mitra Sangha forward. Thanks!
Spring Awakening Retreat
11—18 May, Ashdown Forest
Places still available on our first retreat in Sussex!
The full week 11—18 May will be led by Dharmabandhu, Dharmakara and Subhachitta. Suggested donations £260/£190/£120.
For the weekend option 11—13 May we’ll be joined by Vidyadasa. Suggested donations £100/£75/£50.
Festival 2012 Concessions
Festival concession tickets @ £90 each are now available by downloading a booking form from the tickets page.
Buddhafield Festival 2012
Early Bird Tickets have now sold out.
Festival Tickets available here.
2012 Retreat Programme and Booking Now Available
We’re delighted to say that the complete 2012 Buddhafield Retreats programme has now been published.
Festival Dates 2012 Announced
The Buddhafield Festival 2012 will be from Wednesday 11th to Sunday 15th of July.
Early Bird Tickets available soon.
Triratna International Retreat 2012
Join Buddhafield at the 2012 Triratna International Retreat, taking place at Taraloka from 1 — 5 June. More than 400 people will be attending the event, making it the biggest gathering of the Triratna Buddhist Community (outside of India) this year. There will be a choice of groups and workshops, imagining the Buddha through chanting, studying traditional texts and stories, writing, meditating, and more. The retreat is suitable for anyone — whether it’s your first retreat, or you’re an old hand! — and it’s family friendly, with activities for children. If you’ve got family members who’ve not meditated before, there will be instruction available.
Book online through the retreat website.
What is a “Buddhafield”?
Buddhafield is a collective of Buddhists involved with the Triratna Buddhist Community: some of us are members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. We live all over the UK, but we run a programme of camping activities in the South West of England, focused around the teaching and practise of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. We are perhaps best known for organising our own Festival and for the Buddhafield Café, which goes to festivals and fairs like Glastonbury, Sunrise and The Green Gathering. As well as this, we run an annual programme of meditation retreat camps and we cultivate on our own land.
The concept of a “Buddhafield”, or of “Buddhafields”, originates in the Mahayana Buddhist Sutras. In these Sutras, Buddhafields are planes of perfect beauty created by the compassionate action of a Buddha. As such they are an environment in which all conditions are perfectly conducive to spiritual practice and in which to gain Enlightenment.
Each year Buddhafield adopts a theme. This year we are exploring “Doorways to Freedom”.