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Opening hours: Christmas and New Year
The London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre will close for Christmas break from the 21st of December through to the 7th of January. During that time, please feel warmly invited to join us for the New Year's Course with Lama Ole…
What happened this year: 2016
This year is already a very important one for our project. The external contractors finished a large amount of very technical (and expensive) work that we would not have been able to do ourselves. We have a very clear idea…
Make a wish!
When you're renovating a building, there are a lot of material concerns. You have to think all the time about deadlines, administration, and above all money. Sometimes you also have to talk loudly about money.. But when that building is…
Caracas Now!
The third project that we're fundraising for here at the Europe Centre Summer Course, as well as our own and the Israeli Retreat centre, is the Caracas Buddhist Centre. While the outer conditions in Venezuela are truly unlivable, and her…
Extreme public speaking
If speaking in public is consistently ranked as most people's greatest fear, then spare a thought for the representatives of our three projects fundraising at the Europe Centre Summer Course this year. They took spontaneous questions on stage tonight in…
Britain (still) loves Europe
Technicalities of treaties and trade agreements notwithstanding, the atmosphere of cooperation and friendship between countries hasn't changed at the Europe Centre Summer Course. Members of Diamond Way centres travel relatively often to meditation courses in different countries, and stay for…
The Buddha comes to the Beaufoy: 2015
As a welcome break from constant building work, in 2015 we had a statue-filling event where we collectively filled our 2-metre tall golden Buddha statue with relics, beautiful and fragrant substances, and rolls of hand-dyed mantras.
Wherever you go, there you are
Seems that we brought our typical weather with us to the Europe Centte Summer Course from England - it has been raining steadily for two days, turning pathways into mud, roads into running streams, and generally soaking all those brave…
Opening the Buddhist centre: 2014
After more than a year of rough, cold, hard work, we finally prepared the building to the point where we could open as a Buddhist Centre in 2014. As context to our journey to the fundraising campaign of the present…
Meet & Eat
One of the pillars of life in a Buddhist centre is eating together. On a full stomach, one relaxes, and becomes a bit more open to others. The Europe Centre uses this effect in an informal daily event called Meet…