Retreats

Going For Refuge Retreat

Spiritual Friendship

Bhante founded the Triratna Buddhist Order as a network of spiritual friendship. At the time of ordination, one decisively commits to helping to create and actively participate in this network of spiritual friendship.

Funeral for Danashura Maurice Wright

We will come together to remember and celebrate the life of Danashura Dharmachari Maurice Wright at Padmaloka Retreat Centre. The event will begin at 12.30pm and end at 5pm. No need to book but please let us know you are planning to attend.

Order Retreat

Kalyana Mitrata: The Four Tantric Rites

There is an element of magic to kalyana mitrata and to be an effective spiritual friend requires knowledge and expertise in activating and working with strong currents of spiritual energy, both in ourselves and in others.

Going For Refuge Retreat

The Padmaloka Winter Retreat: 2024/25

An intensive retreat, at a potent time of year, offering a special and unique opportunity to enter into deep silence and meditation. This retreat is the pinnacle of our retreat calendar.

GFR Retreat

Living With Awareness

Through immersing ourselves in Sangharakshita's commentary on the Satipatthana Sutta – The Discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness we will explore the 'only way to liberation’.

GFR Retreat

The Transcendental Principle

An intensive study of the first chapter of Sangharakshita’s magnum opus, A Survey of Buddhism is fundamental to deepening one’s practical understanding of the Dharma – the basic doctrines and teachings of the Buddha, such as conditioned co-production, the three marks of conditioned existence, the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.

Order Retreat

Post-Ordination 2024: An Ever Deepening Going for Refuge

A vital opportunity to reconnect with friends, and explore how we can deepen our practice and what it means to live a life in the Order.

Open Retreat

Retreat for Men of Colour: The Great Love

Vimalakirti describes the Great Love as 'the love that is firm, its high resolve unbreakable, like a diamond'. Approaching living beings from the profound and paradoxical perspective of wisdom, Vimalakirti has much to teach us about the true nature of compassion.

Meditation Retreat

Essential Meditation

This no-nonsense retreat focuses on the core principles of meditation, helping you work effectively, renew motivation, and inspire your practice.

Open Retreat

Great Gathering: The Ideal of Human Enlightenment

Who was the Buddha? What is Enlightenment? What is the Ideal Man? Sangharakshita explained that the Buddha embodies a universal human ideal, by which we can orient and transform our lives.

Order Retreat

Men’s European Mitra Convenors’ Meeting 1‍

A retreat for Mitra Convenors in Triratna to gather and deepen their inspiration and vision.

GFR Retreat

What is the Order?

This study retreat communicates what it means to participate in the life of the Triratna Buddhist Order.