Cardiff Buddhist Centre

Spirituality and Climate Sharing Circle
2025-11-22 13:30 - 15:30 (Europe/London)
The Cardiff Buddhist Centre is pleased to be hosting another Spirituality and Climate Sharing Circle, run by a multi faith team including members of our own Buddhist Sangha.

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In the light of the climate crisis and state of the world how are you feeling? Do you have a place to speak about anger or burnout or hope? How is your spiritual practice or faith life?

The Spirituality and Climate Sharing Circle is a place for people to share conversations about climate, emotions, activism, and spirituality. It is a supportive listening circle for anyone who wants to reflect on both the inner and outer work of our lives. Run by an interfaith team and open to people of all faiths and none.

Thursday Lunchtime Meditation
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:30 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
Step off the wheel for a while and join us for a session of guided meditation. Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.

You don’t have to be a Buddhist to explore the benefits of meditating together in a friendly and relaxed environment.

When and Where?

Every Thursday, from 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm (doors open at 12.15 pm), in person at the Cardiff Buddhist Centre.

No need to book a place, simply drop-in.

How much?

We offer access to all freely, please Donate whatever you can to help us continue to offer this service to everyone.

Ideal for: everyone is welcome, no previous experience necessary, just bring curiosity and a sense of adventure.

Wednesday Morning Meditation (Unled)
2025-11-19 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-11-12 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-11-05 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-10-29 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-10-22 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-10-15 07:00 - 08:00, 2025-10-08 07:00 - 08:00
We welcome you to our early morning mediation sessions at the Cardiff Buddhist Centre.

Our Wednesday morning sessions are geared toward people who already have some experience with meditation and want to practice in the company of others. The session is unled, with only bells at regular intervals.

Doors open at 6:45 am, for a prompt start at 7:00 am.

We will finish the meditation session around 7:50 am after which you are welcome to stay for breakfast.

We look forward to you joining us!

We offer access to all freely, please Donate whatever you can to help us continue to offer this service to everyone.

Myfyrdod yn y Gymraeg
2025-11-18 19:15 - 20:30, 2025-11-04 19:15 - 20:30, 2025-10-21 19:15 - 20:30, 2025-10-07 19:15 - 20:30
Dyma gyfle unigryw i ddysgu ac i ymarfer myfyrio (meditation) Bwdhaidd trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg. Mae croeso cynnes i bawb, boed eich bod heb fyfyrio o’r blaen neu eich bod wedi ymarfer ers rhai blynyddoedd ond erioed wedi cael y siawns i gael arweiniad yn y Gymraeg.

Bydd yna gyfle i gwrdd gyda’ch cyd ymarferwyr, i ofyn cwestiynau , ac i glywed sgyrsiau byr am y syniadau a’r gwerthoedd sy’n rhan annatod o fyfyrio Bwdhaidd: Er enghraifft datblygu ymwybyddiaeth gwell o’n teimladau, o garedigrwydd ehangach a heddwch mewnol.

Mae’r cyfle yma yn cael ei ddarparu gan aelodau o Gymuned Bwdhaidd Triratna, sydd yn cynnal canolfannau a grwpiau yng Nghaerdydd, Llangollen ac Aberystwyth.

Pryd?

Bob pythefnos ar nos Fawrth am 7:15 o’r gloch

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Living Well: A Course Exploring the Buddhist Precepts
2025-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
5 Tuesday evenings | 7:00–9:00 PM November 18 & 25; December 2, 9 & 16

Discover how to live with greater clarity, kindness, and purpose in today’s world.This five-week course offers a practical and inspiring exploration of the Five Buddhist Ethical Precepts — timeless principles for living with integrity and compassion.

Each evening focuses on one precept, combining teaching, reflection, and meditation practice to help you bring these insights into daily life.

A perfect next step if you’ve completed The Journey and the Guide or our Introduction to Buddhism and Meditation Course, or if you’re simply interested in living more mindfully and ethically.

Free tickets available for those unable to pay and also anyone who has a standing order donation to the Centre. To set one up, email connect@cardiffbuddhistcentre.com

Led by Order Member Candrapriya

Sunday Practice Morning
2025-11-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-02 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-26 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-19 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-12 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
We welcome you to our meditation session on Sunday mornings. These consist of a meditation from 10:00-11:00, then a tea break. There is then an optional Buddhist ritual (puja) from 11:30 to 12:00.

To support people with different levels of practice with meditation, we offer both a beginners’ meditation with more guidance, or a less guided session for those more comfortable with meditation.

We look forward to you joining us!

We offer access to all freely, please Donate whatever you can to help us continue to offer this service to everyone.

Under 35s - Meditate and Relate
2025-11-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
What?

A group for anyone 18-35 to connect, explore the Buddha’s teachings, practice meditation and find a community that supports them to grow.

Where and when?

Cardiff Buddhist Centre, every fortnight on Thursdays at 7:00 pm. No need to book, just turn up

How much?

Donation – please consider supporting the Centre so that we can keep offering events like this one in the future. You can donate at the Centre or below.

6 Week Introduction to Buddhism and Meditation Course
2025-11-11 19:00 - 21:00
Six Tuesday Evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm

11 November-16 December

This 6-week course introduces the core teachings of Buddhism and gives you practical tools to start or deepen your meditation practice. You’ll see how Buddhist philosophy applies to modern life—and how it can spark real change for you and those around you.

We’ll explore questions like:

Who was the Buddha, and what did he really teach?

What values lie at the heart of Buddhism?

How can I bring Buddhist principles into my daily life?

How can meditation help me live with more clarity and ease?

Along the way, you’ll practice meditation, learn from experienced Buddhist teacher Vishvapani, and take part in group discussions that bring the teachings to life.

Women's Order and Mitra Day with Saddhanandi
2025-11-08 10:00 - 16:00 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
Retreat Day for Women Mitras and OMs

Saddhanandi is a guest Order member who lives at Adhisthana retreat centre in Herefordshire, as part of the Dharma teaching team. This day is an opportunity to study the Dharma with an experienced Order member, who knew Sangharakshita personally and has a long lived experience of integrating his teachings into her life.

‘We need someone who can see and draw out who we are, or rather who we are becoming. Each of us has an inner world, full of thoughts and feelings that are amorphous or embryonic: we can only give them their proper shape through communication. Whenever we succeed in communicating them, we are changed, becoming someone new.” (Subhuti)

We’ll use the day to explore the theme of friendship within the Sangha using various extracts from Sangharakshita and others. We’ll look at friendship as a path to greater awareness and individuality through discussion and reflection: exploring the nature of individuality and how that can impact on our communication with each other.

I hope the day will not only be a chance to discuss friendship but also be an experience of developing friendship with other women living around Cardiff and Swansea – each one of us practising the dharma, a path of growth and development within this Sangha.

Here seated, here practising,May our mind become Buddha,May our thought become Dharma,May our communication with one another be Sangha.

Timetable 9:45 – Doors Open10:00 – Setting the scene11:00 – Study and reflection12:15 – Tea and snack break12:45 – Study and reflection14:30 – Tea and snack break15:00 – Conclude with short ritual16:00 – Finish

NB. We won’t have a big shared lunch during this event, but we ask that you bring your own food – perhaps a sandwich and a snack – whatever you need for the day which will be split across two longer breaks.

Any questions you can email Padmabodhini on padmabodhini@gmail.com

Sangha Day Celebration
2025-11-02 09:30 - 16:00 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
At the Cardiff Buddhist Centre, one of our greatest strengths is our warm, supportive community. Many of us carry those qualities into the wider world through service and engagement.

Sangha Day celebrates this spirit of connection—the shared experience that inspires us and the potential it has to touch many lives.

It’s a chance to gather in our newly transformed space, hear words of wisdom, and reaffirm our commitment to creating something truly valuable—together and as individuals.

This is a free event, open to all, no need to book. If possible, please bring something vegan for a shared lunch

Timings

9:30 Arrive

10:00 Meditation

11:00 Talk on sangha

11:45 Break

12:00 Discussion Groups

1:00 Shared Lunch

2:15 Music

2:45 Ritual including rededicating the upstairs shrine room; sevenfold puja; and mitra reaffirmations

4:00 Finish

Led by Vishvapani

Earth Sangha - Forest Farm Volunteering
2025-11-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Forest Farm Country Park, Forest Farm Road, Whitchurch, CF14 7JH, United Kingdom
Our next Earth Sangha event will be helping with looking after the baby trees at Forest Farm Tree Nursery before they get planted out across Cardiff later this winter!

This was a popular event last time we did it and you will need to book with Forest Farm on the link below.

If you’re coming by train you can meet organisers Alokasanya and Padmabodhini at 9.45am at Radyr train station and walk across with them. If you’re coming by other means and want them to keep an eye out for you, let us know! You can join the Earth Sangha Whatsapp group by clicking this link for any updates on the day, or for you to let us know if you’ll be late. If you can’t join the Whatsapp group, please email connect@cardiffbuddhistcentre.com to confirm you’ll be attending.

Come ready for the weather, and also worth bringing some snacks and drinks.

If you are attending the event please sign up with Forest Farm Tree Nursery on this link.

About The Group

The Cardiff Earth Sangha is a regular group dedicated to understanding the climate crisis through the lens of compassion, mindfulness, and interconnectedness. We explore how Buddhist teachings can guide us in cultivating a deeper awareness of our relationship with the Earth and empower positive action for a sustainable future. Together, we can bring mindfulness to our environmental challenges, understand our own emotions around the subject and as a group take action to engage with nature and make a positive change.

We run sessions at the Centre looking at how Buddhist ideas can inform our response to the climate crisis. These are free, drop in events, no need to register.

We also have volunteering to support groups taking action on the climate or doing activities which connect us with nature.

To get all our Earth Sangha updates and volunteering opportunities why not join the Whatsapp group by clicking this link (no spam we promise!).

Who is it for?

Everyone

How much/ booking?

Free entry, no need to book

Going Deeper - A Day Retreat
2025-10-25 09:30 - 16:00
A day retreat is an opportunity to go deeper with meditation and Buddhist practice. On this day there will be several periods of meditation, time for silence and an opportunity to have guidance and teachings from Order Member Vishvapani.

The day will explore the themes of the book the Journey and The Guide.

Suitable for?

Everyone

Body, Heart, Mind Awake - Weekend Retreat with Tejananda
2025-10-11 10:00 - 2025-10-12 16:30
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Don’t miss this opportunity for an inspiring weekend of meditation and discussion at the Cardiff Buddhist Centre, led by highly respected dharma teacher Tejananda. For those with at least one year of regular meditation practice, this retreat promises to connect us more deeply to the awake and aware quality inherent in us, allowing access to unbounded energy, and provide techniques to invigorate our practice. This retreat is 10am-4pm on both Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October.

About the Retreat – Taking The Backward Step

Mind is usually taken to mean all kinds of mental activity, but what we’re interested in here is ‘mind itself’ – the awake, aware quality of mind.

Awakeness is here even when we feel sleepy and dull. How do we know that we’re sleepy and dull? We are awake to it. We’re even awake to our dreams, despite the body being asleep.

This quality of wakefulness, knowingness or clarity is intrinsic to all of our experience and yet it is mysteriously ungraspable and unfindable. To know it, we need to discover what Zen Master Dogen was pointing to when he spoke of ‘taking the backward step’.

This is essentially a step ‘back’, from identification with our everyday mind of thoughts and imaginings, into the immediacy and presence of our body senses, just as they are.

Our body is not what we think it is – not at all! When we take the backward step, body is not the rather solid, rather weighty object we imagine it is. It’s more an unbounded, living, vibrating cloud of sensate energy.

This also opens the heart to rest in its own nature – limitless and boundless. Here, the stream of love and compassion which is already implicitly active becomes boundless and all-inclusive. Body, heart and mind are naturally and undividedly awake.

Tejananda will be exploring the connection between the mind, the body and the heart over two days of meditation and discussion.

ABOUT TEJANANDA

Tejananda is a highly renowned and well respected meditation and dharma teacher, and author of “The Buddhist Path to Awakening’. Based for many years at Vajraloka, he now leads retreats across the UK and worldwide.

Suitable for?

Anyone with at least 1 year of regular meditation practice.

When?

Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October, 10am – 4.30pm

Where?

Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St Peter’s Street, CF24 3BA

Thursday Lunchtime Drop-in Meditation
2025-10-09 12:30 - 13:30 | Cardiff Buddhist Centre, 12 St. Peters Street, Cardiff, CF24 3BA
Step off the wheel for a while and join us for a session of guided meditation. Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.

You don’t have to be a Buddhist to explore the benefits of meditating together in a friendly and relaxed environment.

When and Where?

Every Thursday, from 12.30 pm – 1.20 pm (doors open at 12.15 pm), in person at the Cardiff Buddhist Centre.

No need to book a place, simply drop-in.

How much?

We offer access to all freely, please Donate whatever you can to help us continue to offer this service to everyone.

Ideal for: everyone is welcome, no previous experience necessary, just bring curiosity and a sense of adventure.
