Writer of the recent “page turning” biography of Sangharakshita The Boy, the Monk the Man, Nagabodhi is an engaging speaker with lots to say about the twists and turns in Triratna’s history.

Ordained over 50 years ago and having lived and worked closely with Sanghrakshita, he will speak about the early days of the movement and his experience of our founder.

The Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course has helped thousands of people learn how to manage chronic pain, illness, fatigue, or anxiety with greater ease through mindfulness and compassion.

This evidence-based programme was developed by Vidyamala Burch, founder of Breathworks, drawing on her personal experience of managing severe pain with mindfulness and meditation. It integrates meditation, pacing, mindful movement, and group sharing to build skills that improve quality of more...

What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? Would we experience the world, ourselves and others differently?

Come and found out at Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!

We start with a check-in, then choose tasks to work with as practice. These usually involve cleaning the centre, tending the shrine and light gardening work, but can include more! We can offer sitting down jobs as well as more active jobs.

Come along more...

If you already have experience of the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness) meditations that we practise in our sangha, join us on a Wednesday lunchtime to meditate with others and take your practice deeper.

Every Wednesday at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. The meditation finishes at 2pm, with the option to stay on until 2.30pm for tea and a chat.

To view details of our beginners’ class, click here.

If you’re curious about and new to meditation, or haven’t yet been acquainted with the practices we follow in our community (Mindfulness of Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations), come along to our drop-in class for beginners on a Wednesday evening.

You’ll be guided through the stages by an experienced practitioner, with the opportunity to discuss your experience and ask questions.

SACRED HANDS: EXPLORING MUDRAS IN THE DHARMA LIFE

The hands are incredibly sensitive because they have some of the most densely packed areas of nerve endings in the human body. Through our hands we interact with the world in a myriad of ways that are so automatic and habitual that we often give them little thought.

Mudras are symbolic ritual gestures made with the hands and fingers which originate from ancient cultures and spiritual traditions. Mudras are used in yoga, more...

Don’t ditch it! Stitch it!

Explore the art of repairing and embellishing our clothing through visible mending.

In this second Make & Meditate morning of 2026, the Make & Meditate team invite you to explore ways of mending damaged or worn out clothes, giving them a new lease of life rather than ditching them and buying new. The source of visible mending can be traced back to more...

This follow-on course is open to anyone who has previously completed an Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation course.

Further your practice of meditation and understanding of Buddhism as we continue to uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to become the change you want to see.

Each session will be partly dedicated to developing our more...

PART 1: THE SEARCH FOR THE MIND

The Dhammapada tells us “Everything has mind in the lead, has mind in the forefront, is made by mind”. But what is the mind? This series of four evening explores various aspects of working with the mind in a Buddhist context. This first week introduces the series and uses Milarepa’s text “The Shepherd’s Search for Mind” to begin our journey; we will try to answer for ourselves the questions that the Tibetan sage poses more...

What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? Would we experience the world, ourselves and others differently?

Come and found out at Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!

We start with a check-in, then choose tasks to work with as practice. These usually involve cleaning the centre, tending the shrine and light gardening work, but can include more! We can offer sitting down jobs as well as more active jobs.

Come along more...

If you already have experience of the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness) meditations that we practise in our sangha, join us on a Wednesday lunchtime to meditate with others and take your practice deeper.

Every Wednesday at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. The meditation finishes at 2pm, with the option to stay on until 2.30pm for tea and a chat.

To view details of our beginners’ class, click here.

If you’re curious about and new to meditation, or haven’t yet been acquainted with the practices we follow in our community (Mindfulness of Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations), come along to our drop-in class for beginners on a Wednesday evening.

You’ll be guided through the stages by an experienced practitioner, with the opportunity to discuss your experience and ask questions.

MINDFULNESS YOGA: CULTIVATING AWARENESS WITH KINDNESS

In these sessions, we focus on unifying and bringing gentle awareness to our body, breath, and mind. The pace is considered, encouraging us to integrate mindfulness not only into our yoga practice but also into our daily life.

We will explore physical sensations and breath, noting our thoughts and feelings, all through a lens of love and kindness (metta). This internal approach helps us learn poses (asanas) from the more...

For experienced meditators.

Unguided 50-minute practice sessions, walking & recitation.

This follow-on course is open to anyone who has previously completed an Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation course.

Further your practice of meditation and understanding of Buddhism as we continue to uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to become the change you want to see.

Each session will be partly dedicated to developing our more...

PART 2: RIGHT EFFORT

Continuing our investigation into the mind from a Buddhist perspective, this week we look at Perfect or Right Effort, one of the elements of the Noble Eightfold Path. This exceedingly useful practice guides us in our efforts to work with the mind, and can be employed, not just on a daily basis, but moment by moment.

What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? Would we experience the world, ourselves and others differently?

Come and found out at Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!

We start with a check-in, then choose tasks to work with as practice. These usually involve cleaning the centre, tending the shrine and light gardening work, but can include more! We can offer sitting down jobs as well as more active jobs.

Come along more...

If you already have experience of the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness) meditations that we practise in our sangha, join us on a Wednesday lunchtime to meditate with others and take your practice deeper.

Every Wednesday at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. The meditation finishes at 2pm, with the option to stay on until 2.30pm for tea and a chat.

To view details of our beginners’ class, click here.

If you’re curious about and new to meditation, or haven’t yet been acquainted with the practices we follow in our community (Mindfulness of Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations), come along to our drop-in class for beginners on a Wednesday evening.

You’ll be guided through the stages by an experienced practitioner, with the opportunity to discuss your experience and ask questions.

MINDFULNESS YOGA: CULTIVATING AWARENESS WITH KINDNESS

In these sessions, we focus on unifying and bringing gentle awareness to our body, breath, and mind. The pace is considered, encouraging us to integrate mindfulness not only into our yoga practice but also into our daily life.

We will explore physical sensations and breath, noting our thoughts and feelings, all through a lens of love and kindness (metta). This internal approach helps us learn poses (asanas) from the more...

Sat 21 Mar – Sun 22 Mar
10am – 5pm

For GFR mitras and Order Members.

‘You Too Should Let That Strength Release You’: Self-power and Other Power in the Pali Canon

Is spiritual realisation something that can be produced by our own determined efforts, striving and personal attainment of wisdom?  Or does realisation arise from shraddha, a natural responsiveness which emerges beyond our willing or not-willing?  Both are true, and more...

Sat 21 Mar – Sun 22 Mar
10am – 5pm

For GFR mitras and Order Members.

‘You Too Should Let That Strength Release You’: Self-power and Other Power in the Pali Canon

Is spiritual realisation something that can be produced by our own determined efforts, striving and personal attainment of wisdom?  Or does realisation arise from shraddha, a natural responsiveness which emerges beyond our willing or not-willing?  Both are true, and more...

She sits in full lotus meditation posture, her right hand rests on her right knee, turned outwards to give to all beings. Her left hand rests in front of her heart. Her skin shines with the light of a ‘million autumn moons’. Her 7 eyes radiate awareness and wisdom. Protector of the 3 jewels, her compassionate action arises from a moment to moment awareness of how things really are. White Tara sees and understands before she acts. Through her practice, we are urged to cultivate more...

Warm and friendly weekly meetings for anyone in recovery, at whatever stage. Meetings are drop-in and in-person, no need to book.

Come along to the Bristol Buddhist Centre, where somebody will be at the door to let you in. This meeting explores recovery through the lens of the Buddhist teachings, and Buddhism through the lens of recovery. If you are attending Twelve Step meetings, this can be your expression of your eleventh step. If you are not, this can be a way to approach more...

This follow-on course is open to anyone who has previously completed an Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation course.

Further your practice of meditation and understanding of Buddhism as we continue to uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to become the change you want to see.

Each session will be partly dedicated to developing our more...

PART 3: PERCEPTION AND REALITY

A goal of Buddhism is to understand the true nature of Reality, which implies we don’t currently know what it is. Yet we tend to think that Reality is all around us and evident, so where are we going wrong? Starting with the Discourse of the Explication of Underlying Meaning (Saṅdhinirmocana Sūtra), we unpack and explore the Buddha’s teaching on mind and perception in the light of a modern scientific understanding. The evening will more...

What would it be like to turn all that we do into practice? Would we experience the world, ourselves and others differently?

Come and found out at Sangha Works – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary!

We start with a check-in, then choose tasks to work with as practice. These usually involve cleaning the centre, tending the shrine and light gardening work, but can include more! We can offer sitting down jobs as well as more active jobs.

Come along more...

If you already have experience of the Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness) meditations that we practise in our sangha, join us on a Wednesday lunchtime to meditate with others and take your practice deeper.

Every Wednesday at the Bristol Buddhist Centre. The meditation finishes at 2pm, with the option to stay on until 2.30pm for tea and a chat.

To view details of our beginners’ class, click here.

If you’re curious about and new to meditation, or haven’t yet been acquainted with the practices we follow in our community (Mindfulness of Breathing and Loving Kindness meditations), come along to our drop-in class for beginners on a Wednesday evening.

You’ll be guided through the stages by an experienced practitioner, with the opportunity to discuss your experience and ask questions.

MINDFULNESS YOGA: CULTIVATING AWARENESS WITH KINDNESS

In these sessions, we focus on unifying and bringing gentle awareness to our body, breath, and mind. The pace is considered, encouraging us to integrate mindfulness not only into our yoga practice but also into our daily life.

We will explore physical sensations and breath, noting our thoughts and feelings, all through a lens of love and kindness (metta). This internal approach helps us learn poses (asanas) from the more...

Warm and friendly weekly meetings for anyone in recovery, at whatever stage. Meetings are drop-in and in-person, no need to book.

Come along to the Bristol Buddhist Centre, where somebody will be at the door to let you in. This meeting explores recovery through the lens of the Buddhist teachings, and Buddhism through the lens of recovery. If you are attending Twelve Step meetings, this can be your expression of your eleventh step. If you are not, this can be a way to approach more...

This follow-on course is open to anyone who has previously completed an Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation course.

Further your practice of meditation and understanding of Buddhism as we continue to uncover genuine ease, contentment and meaning in life through exploring profound yet simple teachings. Come together with others to learn, discuss and discover the means to become the change you want to see.

Each session will be partly dedicated to developing our more...

PART 4: STILLNESS, SIMPLICITY AND CONTENTMENT

In the final evening of the ‘All in the Mind’ series we look at the Third Precept. At first glance, it may seem that this precept against sexual misconduct has little to do with our exploration of the mind, but the positive aspect of the precept – the development of stillness, simplicity and contentment – gives us a clue as to its core essence. How do we transform our mind from one mired in craving, to one more...