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Buddhist meditation centre opens in Lambeth: Video invitation

Posted on: April 2nd, 2014 No Comments

This Saturday, 5th April 2014, the London Diamond Way Buddhist Meditation Centre will be officially opened! Representatives from Lambeth Council, local residents and special guests from a number of Buddhist and other faith groups will join Lama Jigme Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The opening ceremony is part of a weekend of Buddhist teachings and meditation with Lama Jigme Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl, accomplished meditation masters in the Karma Kagyu lineage. Tickets are still available on the door (the opening ceremony itself is free). See here for the full programme of the meditation course.

Once the Buddhist centre is opened, public meditations will commence every Thursday evening at 7pm, starting on Thursday 10th April, with a short talk about Buddhism preceding the guided meditation. All welcome.

To celebrate this wonderful occasion, we have produced this short video invitation below. Enjoy!

Letter of support from Lama Jigme Rinpoche for the Beaufoy Project

Posted on: March 10th, 2012

We were delighted to receive this letter of support from Lama Jigme Rinpoche, the General Secretary of the Karma Kagyu School

 

Letter from Lama Jigme Rinpoche, March 2012

Letter from Lama Jigme Rinpoche, March 2012

Regarding Diamond Way Buddhism and the Beaufoy Institute, London

Since the time H.H. 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, appointed me as his representative in Europe in 1975, I have watched how interest has grown in genuine Buddhist spiritual methods, and how they can be applied to our modern societies.

It has been my experience in working with communities that Buddhism can have significant benefit. Indeed we have had programmes to support teachers, business people and young people and many have found the application of Buddhist methods such as developing mindfulness, compassion and clarity of thought useful in their daily lives.

In the United Kingdom, Diamond Way Buddhism, a lay Buddhist organisation, started in 1994 at the University of Cambridge with the visits of H.H. 16th Karmapa’s closest Western students, Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah. Since that time, through the teaching and practice of the traditional methods of the Kagyu School, and the endeavours of many British people, the organisation has grown and benefitted many people.

It is with great joy, now as General Secretary of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism, that I support the redevelopment of the Beaufoy Institute as a place for the practise of Buddhism. It is my wish that it will benefit the local and wider community and become a place where many can learn, enjoy, and use the Buddha’s teachings to develop the great qualities of compassion and wisdom.

Lama Jigme Rinpoche