This event is canceled. Sorry for any disappointment caused. How to join This is an in-person event at the Centre. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. No need to book just turn up. The event is offered without charge but please remember that the Centre is powered by… Read More »Puja Evening – CANCELLED
Walk’n’talk at Highwoods Park Walk’n’talk and picnic at Highwoods Park, Colchester on Sunday 17th March. Meet at 10:30. Walk and talk round the park and then packed lunch picnic (bring your own food) before making our way home. Dana donations welcome. Contact Ivan on Slack for details, address details below. How to… Read More »Men’s Sangha Gathering
Help raise funds for Tiratanaloka [Un]limited & Ipswich Buddhist Centre Your chance to support two amazing causes and also win some awesome experiences and services that are just not available on the high street. Also, be dazzled by the talented Ipswich Sangha in the half-time entertainment. View the promises now… Read More »Auction of Promises – online
Join us on Zoom on a Friday evening from 7-9pm, to share thoughts on Buddhist-related non-fiction, poetry, literature, & more… Below are the amended dates for each title. The Zoom link details are below: Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88504117347?pwd=REFveGhUZ0diYmZiTVdxUVRiY013QT09 Meeting ID: 885 0411 7347Passcode: 278906 • 15 March 2024: Ruth Ozeki, The… Read More »Dharma Reading Café 2024
Tools for Living Your Life Our new season is ‘Tools for living your life’. We will base each morning on a theme from the eponymous book by Vajragupta. These Saturday morning sessions will be suitable for anyone seeking a meaningful spiritual path while living everyday lives full of family, work… Read More »Saturday Intro Session
Join Ariyanivata for a Study Morning. As a prelude to the Parinirvana Day festival on the 25th February at the Centre, we will be looking at extracts from the Pali Sutta The Mahaparinibbana Sutta ( Part of the Digha Nikaya no. 16 ). The longest of all early discourses,… Read More »Men’s Sangha Gathering
Padmasambhava Day is one of the most lively festival days in our calendar. It celebrates the semi-legendary figure of Padmasambhava who overcame malicious local deities to introduce Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th Century. But why is he so important to us? What are Termas? What could he mean to… Read More »Padmasambhava Day
This year the Ipswich Sangha will be celebrating Dharma Day with a focus on Milarepa. This 11th century Tibetan had an extraordinary life story. He produced many songs and poems; became a famed meditator and he was a man of wisdom. Urgyen Sangharakshita (Bhante), the founder of our Buddhist Community… Read More »Dharma Day
The Buddha Festival Day celebrates the day that Siddhartha Gautama achieved enlightenment in India 2500 years ago and became the Buddha whose teaching we follow. This year we explore the life of the Buddha through the important events and significant places in his life in northern India including his birth at… Read More »Buddha Day – in the footsteps of The Buddha
The Parinirvana Festival Day is our opportunity to mark the end of the Buddha’s earthly existence and an opportunity to reflect on the life and death of our teacher and our own experience of impermanence. If you wish to bring a photograph of a friend or loved one who has… Read More »Parinirvana Day
