Key highlights
Plan the rest of your year with the LBC
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Tue
17 Oct
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7:15 pm
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9:30 pm
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Tue
17 Oct
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Tue
5 Dec
The Journey and The Guide
This 8-week ‘practical course in Enlightenment’ shows us how we can follow the Buddha on his journey – day by day, week by week – towards our full potential. It offers a map for understanding what spiritual practice is in essence, whatever era we live in.
Multiple booking options
In person & Online
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Fri
22 Dec
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12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Fri
22 Dec
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Mon
1 Jan
The Winter Retreat 2023
The Winter Retreat is our main event of the year and the best way to experience the vision of the LBC. Travelling together to Adhisthana retreat centre in the Malvern Hills, we’ll create a new kind of community for ten days by relating to each other on the basis of our highest potential.
Multiple booking options
In person
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Fri
22 Dec
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7:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Fri
22 Dec
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Mon
1 Jan
The Buddhas of the Bardo: Winter Intensive Retreat
‘The hour has come when energy and pure love are needed.’ An exploration of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the famous Buddhist instructions for the progress of a person’s consciousness after death. The usual securities are stripped away, the text says; fortunately for us, Buddhas also appear. Do we know how to move towards them?
An Evening with the Chair
Monday 13th Feb | 7.15pm - 9.30pm
A special evening to hear from and meet Suryagupta, the Chair of the LBC. The Chair is the person with overall responsibility for LBC activities, both practically and in guiding the spiritual direction of the Centre.
Monday 13th Feb | 7.15pm - 9.30pm
A special evening to hear from and meet Suryagupta, the Chair of the LBC. The Chair is the person with overall responsibility for LBC activities, both practically and in guiding the spiritual direction of the Centre.
Life With Full Attention
Starts Wed 15 Feb| In Person and Online | More info
The point of life is to live – to live as fully, richly and meaningfully as possible. This eight-week course, based on Maitreyabandhu’s book Life with Full Attention, is an ideal way to learn mindfulness in a systematic way.
Starts Wed 15 Feb| In Person and Online | More info
The point of life is to live – to live as fully, richly and meaningfully as possible. This eight-week course, based on Maitreyabandhu’s book Life with Full Attention, is an ideal way to learn mindfulness in a systematic way.
Parinirvana Day Festival 2023
Sunday 12th Feb| In person and YouTube
A full day festival marking the final passing of the Buddha two and a half millennia ago. An opportunity to contemplate impermanence, rejoice in the example of the Buddha’s life and reflect on the precious opportunity that our own lives present us.
Sunday 12th Feb| In person and YouTube
A full day festival marking the final passing of the Buddha two and a half millennia ago. An opportunity to contemplate impermanence, rejoice in the example of the Buddha’s life and reflect on the precious opportunity that our own lives present us.
Other highlights
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Thu
28 Sep
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7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
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Thu
28 Sep
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Thu
12 Oct
Awakening Creativity & Imagination
A short course to explore ways of accessing and cultivating creativity and the imagination, whilst discovering their significance in the Buddhist life, through meditation and simple, playful drawing exercises.
£50 Full / £30 Conc
On Zoom - book online
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Fri
13 Oct
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7:15 pm
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9:45 pm
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Fri
13 Oct
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Fri
27 Oct
Meditate, Understand, Transform
A Sub25 Series
What makes life meaningful? Discover the Buddhist vision over three Friday nights - we'll explore a practical path of transformation step-by-step through meditation, workshop discussions, and Dharma talks.
Led by three of the LBC's most experienced teachers.
Free (suggested donation £10 per evening)
In person – just turn up
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Sat
14 Oct
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2:30 pm
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5:00 pm
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Sat
14 Oct
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Sun
15 Oct
Sub35 Women+ Seminar series
Deepening practice, differing lifestyles
A weekend programme at the LBC for women+ under the age of 35 to come together and explore the tensions of modern life, hear from Order Members with a variety of lifestyles, and clarify how they can deepen their practice in their personal context in a way that is authentic to their truest values.
An Evening with the Chair
Monday 13th Feb | 7.15pm - 9.30pm
A special evening to hear from and meet Suryagupta, the Chair of the LBC. The Chair is the person with overall responsibility for LBC activities, both practically and in guiding the spiritual direction of the Centre.
Monday 13th Feb | 7.15pm - 9.30pm
A special evening to hear from and meet Suryagupta, the Chair of the LBC. The Chair is the person with overall responsibility for LBC activities, both practically and in guiding the spiritual direction of the Centre.
Life With Full Attention
Starts Wed 15 Feb| In Person and Online | More info
The point of life is to live – to live as fully, richly and meaningfully as possible. This eight-week course, based on Maitreyabandhu’s book Life with Full Attention, is an ideal way to learn mindfulness in a systematic way.
Starts Wed 15 Feb| In Person and Online | More info
The point of life is to live – to live as fully, richly and meaningfully as possible. This eight-week course, based on Maitreyabandhu’s book Life with Full Attention, is an ideal way to learn mindfulness in a systematic way.
Parinirvana Day Festival 2023
Sunday 12th Feb| In person and YouTube
A full day festival marking the final passing of the Buddha two and a half millennia ago. An opportunity to contemplate impermanence, rejoice in the example of the Buddha’s life and reflect on the precious opportunity that our own lives present us.
Sunday 12th Feb| In person and YouTube
A full day festival marking the final passing of the Buddha two and a half millennia ago. An opportunity to contemplate impermanence, rejoice in the example of the Buddha’s life and reflect on the precious opportunity that our own lives present us.
Online offerings
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Thu
28 Sep
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7:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Online On-demand
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Thu
28 Sep
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Thu
12 Oct
Awakening Creativity & Imagination
A short course to explore ways of accessing and cultivating creativity and the imagination, whilst discovering their significance in the Buddhist life, through meditation and simple, playful drawing exercises.
£50 Full / £30 Conc
On Zoom - book online
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Mon
2 Oct
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7:15 pm
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9:30 pm
Online On-demand
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Mon
2 Oct
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Mon
2 Oct
Dharma Night
The Five Powers of the Mind
Our founder said that ‘a Buddhist is someone who is first and last alive – awake to life.’ We surely all want this: but how do we develop it?
Free, with donations welcome
In Person and on YouTube
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Wed
4 Oct
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7:15 pm
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9:30 pm
Online On-demand
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Wed
4 Oct
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Wed
4 Oct
Wednesday Night Meditation
The Five Wisdoms
Our weekly Wednesday class gives you the chance to learn fresh approaches to meditation, try them out and ask questions to experienced meditators.
Free, with donations welcome
In Person and on YouTube
