Buddhafield

Buddhafield: Buddhism, meditation and community

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 Out of the Ordinary. As well as this, we run an annual programme of meditation retreat camps and we cultivate on our own land.

Family Friendly Retreat 2010 Sunday 1 August — Friday 6 August on our land at Frog Mill. This Retreat is now fully booked.	Coming together to buy Buddhafield’s land at Frog Mill Help us raise funds to complete the purchase of Frog Mill. Sponsor someone on our Just Giving page, for example: both Hannah Phillips and Leif Stamford are doing the 40 Mile walk between our two pieces of land; Dhiramati did an all-night puja at this year’s Festival.
Buddhafield T-shirts on sale Lovely people! In gorgeous T-shirts! So ethical you’ll gain Enlightenment just looking at them ... and available from the Buddhafield Shop page.

What is a “Buddhafield”?

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 the origins of our own name under the title “A Force for Good in the World”.