Saturday: 9am to 6pm.

Sunday: 9am to 4pm. With tea and lunch break

A weekend retreat, led by Buddhist monk and author Gelong Thubten, focusing on some of the key themes from his second book, the bestseller ‘Handbook for Hard Times’. Thubten will explain some of the Buddhist methods for deepening our compassion and working with challenging situations, emotions and relationships. There will be a special emphasis on the practice of forgiveness. 

A great opportunity for a weekend retreat of learning and practice. For those traveling from afar, reasonably priced accommodation is available at the nearby hotels, within easy walking distance across the park in front of the meditation centre. 

Suggested donation £50 (all funds will go to charity) per day, although nobody will be excluded due to lack of funds.

It is essential to book - please email admin@yorkshire.samye.org

Join us for an inspiring weekend at The Sangha House in Taunton, with the renowned Buddhist Monk and bestselling author, Gelong Thubten. This in-person event offers a unique opportunity to learn from one of the UK’s most influential teachers of mindfulness and meditation.

Throughout the weekend, Gelong Thubten will share insights from Buddhist philosophy and guide us on a transformative journey towards inner peace and happiness. We will explore ancient Buddhist practices and gain practical tools to apply meditation and mindfulness in our daily lives. The weekend will be based on the practices presented in Gelong Thubten’s book, ‘Handbook for Hard Times - a monk’s guide to fearless living’.

Gelong Thubten will explain methods for working with life’s challenges. Regular meditation helps us to transform our thoughts, emotions and reactions, and our experiences of suffering can become steps on our journey to liberation.

Topics will include:
exploring our fears and how to become more fearless,
establishing a daily meditation practice,
working with suffering, developing compassion and
practising forgiveness.

The event runs for the two days, Saturday and Sunday, so an opportunity for a real deep-dive into Buddhist thinking and practice.

Each day begins promptly at 11.00 am, and will end around 4.00pm.

Gelong Thubten’s latest book, ‘A Handbook for Difficult Times’, is based on Tibetan Buddhist meditation and written in an accessible style for everyone. Thubten explains how life’s difficulties can be an opportunity to deepen our meditation practice and discover our inner strength. By embracing our suffering, we develop deeper compassion and wisdom, and find an indestructible inner happiness.

Thubten's book offers a roadmap to fearlessness, with valuable meditation advice and practical exercises. It includes methods for integrating loving kindness, forgiveness and wisdom into our daily lives.

At the festival, Gelong Thubten will give a lecture on the topics in his book, followed by a question-and-answer session and a signing session of his book.

Saturday: 9am to 6pm. Sunday: 9am to 4pm. With tea and lunch breaks.

Suggested donation £50 (all funds will go to charity) per day, although nobody will be excluded due to lack of funds.

It is essential to book - please email admin@yorkshire.samye.org

A weekend retreat, led by Buddhist monk and author Gelong Thubten, focusing on themes from his bestselling books, ‘A Monk’s Guide to Happiness’ and ‘Handbook for Hard Times’. 

The retreat will focus on the Buddhist understanding of psychology and how to work with difficult emotions. There will be a combination of talks and practical meditation sessions, with time for questions and answers. 

A great opportunity for a weekend retreat of learning and practice. For those traveling from afar, reasonably priced accommodation is available at the nearby hotels, within easy walking distance across the park in front of the meditation centre. 

Saturday: 9am to 6pm, Sunday: 9am to 4pm. With tea and lunch breaks.

Suggested donation £50 (all funds will go to charity) per day, although nobody will be excluded due to lack of funds.

It is essential to book - please email admin@yorkshire.samye.org

A weekend retreat, led by Buddhist monk and author Gelong Thubten, focusing on the practice of visualisation, and how it helps to reveal the innate purity of our minds. In Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of Tantra uses visualisations that cleanse and transform our perception of reality, connecting us with the ‘inner Buddha’, our inherent capacity for awakening.

The retreat will provide a combination of talks and practical meditation sessions, with time for questions and answers.

A great opportunity for a weekend retreat of learning and practice. For those traveling from afar, reasonably priced accommodation is available at the nearby hotels, within easy walking distance across the park in front of the meditation centre.

‘Meditation for Fearless Living’

This retreat offers a unique opportunity to learn from one of the UK’s most influential teachers of meditation and mindfulness, a 3-day deep-dive into the practices and philosophy presented in Gelong Thubten’s latest book, ‘Handbook for Hard Times - a monk’s guide to fearless living’.

Lindeborgs Eco Retreat is a beautiful, award-winning, sustainable retreat center created by Carl and Julia Lindeborg. It’s a serene and eco-conscious space for reflection, personal growth, and healing. Surrounded by the tranquil beauty of the Swedish countryside, offering lakes and forests, it’s a place where nature and mindful living come together to provide an ideal environment for deep transformational work 🌲✨

Learn more and reserve your place on carllindeborg.com/retreats

‘Meditation and Inner Freedom’

We will focus on an 11th Century Tibetan text called The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, which contains powerful instructions for transforming our meditation practice into a journey to inner freedom and liberation.

 Led by Gelong Thubten, this retreat is an invitation to deepen your relationship with meditation, refining what you already practice. While rooted in familiar foundations, the teachings will introduce fresh methods drawn from the Tibetan tradition, offering new perspectives and tools for inner transformation. Through a skillful blend of teaching and silent practice, we’ll explore how ancient wisdom can illuminate our modern lives.

 The main themes will be:

• How to deepen our commitment to daily meditation practice

• The cultivation of compassion 

• Training in profound wisdom, using visualisation techniques from the Buddhist teachings on Tantra.

Lindeborgs Eco Retreat is a beautiful, award-winning, sustainable retreat center created by Carl and Julia Lindeborg. It’s a serene and eco-conscious space for reflection, personal growth, and healing. Surrounded by the tranquil beauty of the Swedish countryside, offering lakes and forests, it’s a place where nature and mindful living come together to provide an ideal environment for deep transformational work 🌲✨

🌿 Learn more and reserve your place on carllindeborg.com/retreats