Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey

20/01/2024

We have a retreat with a difference coming up in March:

This retreat aims to explore how the activities of writing and reading poetry, as with meditation, can allow us to pay attention to our lives and our essential connectedness. As poet and Zen practitioner Jane Hirshfield has written: “Both poetry and meditation are potential paths of awareness thro...

01/01/2023

Message for the New Year: Yesterday evening, during our New Year Retreat, we celebrated the New Year by gathering at the altar, and revolving the Scripture of Great Wisdom (also known as the Heart Sutra). The ceremony ends with an offertory that expresses things better than I ever could: "This New Year is the time of the turning of the wheel of the Dharma. This turning is realized in the revolving of the Scriptures, in our life and through everything in the Universe. Whatever this year brings it will be the turning of the wheel of the Dharma.
Let us follow this turning by forever grounding ourselves in true sitting and the wish to cease from evil, to do only good and to do good for others.
We offer the merit of our chanting of the Scripture of Great Wisdom, the Kojin Shingon Dharani and the revolving of The Scriptures at this New Year to all, so that they may be able to realize the Truth."
With best wishes to all for the New Year,
Rev. Berwyn (Abbot)

16/11/2022

Rev. Master Leandra's successor has been elected:

Having reached the end of the election process the Monastic community are pleased to announce that Rev. Master Berwyn Watson is now the Abbot of Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey. On taking up his Abbatical seat in the meditation hall on Friday 11th November, Rev. Master Berwyn gave the following dedicat...

27/06/2022

A new Dharma talk by Rev. Master Daishin: https://throssel.org.uk/dharma-talks/zazen-and-the-self-by-rev-master-daishin/

25/10/2021

Rev. Master Daishin's new book is now available:

Author: Rev. Master Daishin Morgan This book is an attempt to describe what being a Buddhist has come to mean for Rev. Master Daishin. Some of the ideas he puts forward are counterintuitive. They are the product of a lifetime of practice and some serious questioning. We each have to find the truth f...

19/02/2021

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17/02/2021

Rev. Master Leandra is doing a lecture series on The Life and Teachings of Great Master Bodhidharma. The first two (of four) talks are online now:

Bodhidharma, Second Talk by Rev. Master Leandra This is Rev. Master Leandra’s second talk to the monastic community in the series on Great Master Bodhidharma. In it she speaks about one of Bodhidharma best-known teachings: ‘Two Entries and Four Practices’ read more General, Rev. Master Leandra...

20/07/2020

A new talk by the Abbot:

This talk was given to Throssel’s novices and postulants earlier this week. Rev. Master Leandra describes here how cultivating compassion is a most helpful practice in helping us to train with fear. Also available as an MP3 download. And here are the Qs & As

04/05/2020

The Wesak Dharma talk is now online

Throssel’s first Sunday of the month festival in May usually rounds off the Friends & Family Weekend Retreat. This year Rev. Berwyn gave the Dharma talk to the monastic community only. An audio version of the talk is also available as an MP3 download  

26/04/2020

Last talk in series now up:

Rev. Master Leandra’s fourth lecture on The Heart Sutra is now on the Dharma Talks page.

19/04/2020

The third talk in Rev. Master Leandra's 'Heart Sutra' series is now on our website:

Rev. Master Leandra gives her third lecture on The Heart Sutra. The audio version is also available as an MP3 download And the subsequent question & answer session is below

12/04/2020

Rev. Master Leandra's second 'Heart Sutra' lecture is now online:

Rev. Master Leandra gives the second lecture on The Heart Sutra, incorporating comments and questions from correspondents who are following the series. The audio version talk is also available as an MP3 download And the subsequent question & answer session is below