Buddhafield: Buddhism, Meditation and Community
Buddhafield Festival 2018 | Wednesday 18 — Sunday 22 July | Booking now!
Next Buddhafield Event
The Buddhafield Village Retreat Phase I
On this work retreat, come and build a village with friends and family, to create the space and atmosphere of community. There will be structures to build, land to clear, wood to chop; we will explore how to relax and stay open in the midst of activity. There will be daily support meetings, meditation, activities, and time to simply unfold into the land. A beautiful opportunity to practice with your children. Children over 7 welcome.
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What is a “Buddhafield”?
Buddhafield is a collective of Buddhists involved with the Triratna Buddhist Community: some of us are members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. We live all over the UK, but we run a programme of camping activities in the South West of England, focused around the teaching and practise of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. We are perhaps best known for organising our own Festival and for the Buddhafield Café, which goes to festivals and fairs like Glastonbury, Sunrise and The Green Gathering. As well as this, we run an annual programme of meditation retreat camps and we cultivate on our own land.
The concept of a “Buddhafield”, or of “Buddhafields”, originates in the Mahayana Buddhist Sutras. In these Sutras, Buddhafields are planes of perfect beauty created by the compassionate action of a Buddha. As such they are an environment in which all conditions are perfectly conducive to spiritual practice and in which to gain Enlightenment.
Each year Buddhafield adopts a theme. This year we are exploring “Dance of Life and Death”.
