Manchester Buddhist Centre

Just a reminder of what’s hap­pen­ing at the week­end
First, an apo­logy that Friday’s singing ses­sion has had to be CANCELLED. Future dates will be announced when we have them.
On Sat­urday 28th August there’s a Sangha walk in Rossend­ale with friendly Buddhists
Monday 30th is the third in a series of sum­mer dec­or­at­ing days. The first two went really well so […]

A new sea­son of six week courses is com­ing up at the begin­ning of Septem­ber and we’re tak­ing book­ings
All courses run from 7 – 9.30pm and cost £65 waged, £45 low-waged and £35 con­ces­sions for the six weeks.
Taught by exper­i­enced mem­bers of the Tri­r­atna Buddhist Order and those in train­ing for ordin­a­tion, the courses are […]

This month’s news­let­ter is now avail­able on the web­site and at the centre
You can see this issue and a couple of years of back cop­ies on the news­let­ters page
If you have any­thing to go into September’s news­let­ter, the dead­line is 24th August

Local Order mem­ber Shakyajata gives an update on the pro­gress of the young people she is work­ing with in India
Nag­pur, Cent­ral India
A group of ten young people from poor fam­il­ies have suc­cess­fully com­pleted a course in anim­a­tion and com­puter graph­ics, fun­ded by the Dham­maloka char­ity and the Ary­aloka Edu­ca­tion Trust. This week, they have all been invited for […]

Aryam­ati, an Order mem­ber from our centre has won the North West Lib­rar­ies poetry prize
A pub­lished author, formerly known as Olga Kenyon, Aryam­ati explains that the win­ning poem is a son­net, inspired by an intriguing geo­lo­gical form­a­tion at Alder­ley Edge in Cheshire.
To the Edge
We take the train, one sand­wich, one poem each
and stomp, the silent physicist […]

There’s a lot going on this week­end.
Col­lab­or­at­ive chorus
On Fri­day even­ing there’s a chance to get in at the begin­ning of a new singing group at the Centre.
Buddhist con­fer­ence
On Sat­urday, Mun­isha will be giv­ing the key­note speech at the Manchester Buddhist Con­fer­ence — please be sure to book this one dir­ect with the organ­isers.
Also on Sat­urday, a day with Dharmottara […]