Adhisthana September 2026

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 

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 from other sanghas and enjoy the positive and inspiring spirit of our wider movement 

Led by Parami, Nagabodhi + team 

What is the retreat about? 

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.

Fifty years on, the world around us – even our community’s name – are very different. So, are those offerings still relevant? Are they still alive in our community? How might we make them, and the principles they embody, manifest in this new age?

As well as meditation, puja and general discussion, part of our exploration will include dialogue between some Order members of many years’ standing, and some younger, newer Order members.

BOOKING is with Adhisthana: You can book with a deposit of £75 

Places are limited so please book early by following this link:

https://adhisthana.org/retreat-calendar/retreat/?ev=1226

PRICE: Standard £335  Concession £265  Financial Assistance £210