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Happy New Year from the London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre!
Everyone at the London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre would like to wish all our subscribers, friends, fellow meditators – and everyone everywhere – a fearless, joyful, and compassionate 2016! Do Buddhists even celebrate New Year? Well, different Buddhist countries have…
Beaufoy Christmas Market 2015
On Sunday, 13th December, we'll have our Christmas Market again. Work of artists from the group will be on display, and for sale, from 16:00 onward. Refreshment and cakes will also be available as well as a very friendly atmosphere.…
Autumn Buddhist lecture series
As everyone comes back from summer holidays and the leaves begin to change colour with the rolling of the seasons, one's mind turns to lasting values in an impermanent world. Learn more about what the Buddha has to say about…
Timelapse video: preparing the meditation hall for the Buddha statue
Many volunteers from London and abroad have been hard at work over the last couple of weeks, making sure that the main meditation hall in the London Diamond Way Buddhist centre is fit for the arrival of our Buddha statue.…
Rolling mantras for the Buddha statue
Remember the millions of Buddha mantras that we were dyeing and cutting for the filling of the Buddha statue? Once the sheets have been dyed with saffron and cut into exact strips, they need to be rolled. In order to…
London Buddha statue: Video about the amazing interior
Here for your viewing pleasure is a video that explains in detail the amazing ingredients that will go inside our new Buddha statue. The idea is to make the inside of the Buddha as beautiful and meaningful as the outside.…
Millions of Buddha mantras
For the Buddha statue that's coming to London, we need a lot of special filling items. Among the things that will be placed inside the statue are mantras. Mantras are syllables and words that express a particular enlightened aspect of…
New Buddha statue for London: how you can help
Our London Buddhist Centre is to get a beautiful, brand new Buddha statue! At almost 6 feet tall it will be a striking centrepiece for the large meditation hall, which itself is being refurbished. The statue is one of a…
Start the New Year with our Spring lecture series on Buddhist meditation
Happy New Year to everyone from the London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre! Start the New Year in the best way by learning Buddhist meditation - or deepening your practice. The venue for all lectures is the London Diamond Way Buddhist…
Londoners help to run huge Buddhist meditation course in Hamburg
Many of the hard-working members of the London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre have left London this New Year. They're joining an international crew of volunteers to organise one of the biggest Buddhist meditation courses in Europe. Our friends will be…