Buddhafield: Buddhism, Meditation and Community
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Buddhafield Festival 2012 | Wednesday 11 — Sunday 15 July | Booking now!
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2012 Retreat Programme and Booking Now Available
We’re delighted to say that the complete 2012 Buddhafield Retreats programme has now been published.
Festival Dates 2012 Announced
The Buddhafield Festival 2012 will be from Wednesday 11th to Sunday 15th of July.
Early Bird Tickets available soon.
Festival Survey: Win Tickets
Fill in a survey about last year’s Festival and win two free adult tickets to this year’s! Fill out the short online survey hosted by SurveyMonkey. The winning tickets will be drawn on 13 February, so get your surveys completed by then. A huge thank you: your comments and experience are really important!
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 Out of the Ordinary. 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 “Doorways to Freedom”.
