Retreats

Women's* Day Retreat with Taravandana

Sunday 26 July 10:30am – 4:30pm

Taravandana will be joining us today for a Day Retreat exclusively for the Women* in the York Sangha. Come and spend a day with good friends exploring how we could bring more love into this troubled world. Using the words of the Buddha, “Not by hatred are hatreds ever pacified here. They are pacified by love. This is the eternal law”, we will be investigating how to transform our own anger and hate into kindness through awareness of what is going on in our minds.

Open to all women* over 18, who have already attended York Buddhist Centre. * NB This includes anyone who identifies as a woman and also those assigned female at birth who identify as non-binary.

Adhisthana September 2026

Friday 25 September – Friday 2 October

Join Shakyapada and Mahasraddha for a great week at Adhisthana as part of the big Summer Sanghas gathering. Adhisthana is our our main retreat centre in Hereford. Find out more at Adhisthana.org

In 1976, Sangharakshita gave a series of public talks, collectively entitled Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow.

Under four headings – A Method of Personal Development, A Vision of Human Existence, A Nucleus of a New Society, and A Blueprint for a New World – he shared his vision of what the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order had to offer.

From the first of these talks, Sangharakshita tells us:

Perhaps it would be best to assume that nobody really knows anything about Buddhism in the West, and that perhaps we do have to make … a completely fresh start, to take, as it were, a completely new look at Buddhism. And this, we may say, is what the FWBO was founded for in 1967, and what it tries to do. It tries to take a completely new look. It tries to make a completely fresh start… It exists, we may say, to cut the Buddha’s teaching down to its absolute essentials and to make those essentials relevant to people’s lives.

This is an opportunity to experience a full retreat together with your friends from the sangha. We will stay together for groups during the retreat but we will also have an opportunity to meet lots of people