Retreats

Men's Day Retreat with Sthirajyoti

Sunday 17 May 10:30am – 4:30pm

This is a special Day Retreat for men, led by Sthirajyoti who is a very experienced Order Member from Manchester Buddhist Centre. More details to follow soon. Open to all men over 18 who have a regular meditation practice. If you are non-binary or identify as a man, please email us in the first instance so that we can discuss what it may feel like for you to attend.

Men's retreats are an opportunity for men in the sangha to practise together in helpful conditions.

Day Retreat with Punyamala - POSTPONED

Sunday 14 June 10:30am – 4:30pm

A day retreat for the York sangha, led by Punyamala
This has been postponed until the Autumn. More details in due course.

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