Upcoming Public Programme

Future events, drop-in sessions and courses

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For any enquiries about the courses or events listed here please contact our Study and Practice team at [email protected]

Visiting Teachers

An introduction to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Tuesday April 9th, 2024 , 7-9pm @the London Centre & online.

Rigpa UK is honoured and delighted to welcome back Sean Price, an exceptional contemporary teacher for our times. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness is part of one of the fullest and most important sutras by the Buddha dealing with meditation. This event will give an introduction to this foundational teaching.

About Venerable Sean Price

Sean Price (Gelong Ngawang Tenzin Jamchen) has a degree in engineering. He has lived in Asia for more than thirty years, and has been a monk since 1994. He has resided at Shechen Monastery in Nepal since 1999. Under the guidance of Kyabje Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, Sean locates and preserves rare Tibetan books and translates liturgical texts. He has been the director of Tibetan publications for Tsadra Foundation since 2009, is a regular contributor to Lotsawa House, and his published translations include The Supreme Siddhi of Mahamudra: Teachings, Poems, and Songs of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage (Snow Lion Publications, 2017); The Emanated Scripture of Manjushri: Shabkar’s Essential Meditation Instructions (Snow Lion Publications, 2019); and The Collected Minor Writings of Khenpo Gangshar (Nalanda Translation Publications, 2021).

To book for the in person ticket, click here.

To join online, click here.

A journey ‘Into the Mirror’ with Andy Karr

A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality

6th & 7th April @ the London Centre


Don’t miss this opportunity to journey ‘into the mirror’ with celebrated author, Buddhist teacher and contemplative photographer, Andy Karr.

Based on his new book Into the Mirror, over these two days Andy will be guiding us on a journey to explore what it means to find freedom within—especially in the context of our modern age, with all of its challenges and complexities—drawing upon the profound and practical wisdom of the Buddhist Mahayana view.

Into the Mirror represents a profound change of perspective. Normally, we spend our lives running after reflections or running away from reflections, and there’s this endless cycle of dissatisfaction, of never being able to obtain what we really want. The point of going into the mirror is to go into the mind that is doing all this wanting and fearing, and looking from a different place than we normally look. Rather than the one who is chasing something or running away from something, it’s the bigger space of just being—and seeing that these appearances are like reflections.” Andy Karr 
For more about Andy and his work, see his website here or on our Eventbrite page.

** Optional event extension **

‘Into the Mirror’ Youth Retreat Day, Monday 8th April
For those of us who are 18-35 years old and are interested to explore how these potent and challenging teachings apply to life as we’re living it now, come along for this extension day to follow on and further deepen the insights and benefits of the weekend! We’ll be taking time to delve into our own experience and insights, sharing them in a safe and creative space with others, and relaxing together to enjoy the whole process!
PLEASE NOTE this extension day is not a stand-alone event, and is only open to participants who are also attending the full weekend. Held by an experienced team from Rigpa UK. Booking for the Youth Retreat Day is via the Eventbrite page for this event.


Dungse Jampal Norbu Courage & Compassion in a Chaotic World

In person and online

TOUR DATES (in British Summer Time):

Berlin:
18:00-19:30
Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th April

Amsterdam:
18:00-20:15, Friday 19th April
8:30-16:00, Saturday 20th April

London:
19.00-21.00
Wednesday, 24 April

Registration link

An evening with Dungse Jampal Norbu

Courage & Compassion in a Chaotic World’

Everywhere we look, from distant headlines to our own streets, suffering seems to be rampant. It’s natural to want to shut down, numb ourselves, or retreat when faced with such overwhelm. But what if facing it head-on is not only possible, but the key to true survival?

Buddhist teachings offer a path. They challenge our tendency to shy away and propose an alternative: courageous compassion. It’s not about ignoring the suffering, but opening ourselves to it with empathy and understanding. Sounds radical, right? In a world that often feels like a cruel joke, wouldn’t that be foolish?

Join Dungse Jampal Norbu as he explores the Lojong teachings – powerful Buddhist techniques designed to cultivate this very courage and compassion. These “mind slogans” will act as tools to “dust off your heart and mind,” equipping you to engage with the world’s madness with both open eyes and a contagious smile.

Come discover

– How to face hardship with bravery and kindness.
– Practical tools to cultivate inner strength and resilience.
– An approach to suffering that empowers you and your community.

This event is not about escaping the world, but embracing it with the transformative power of compassionate action. Are you ready to dive in?

Package deal

This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to follow Dungse Jampal Norbu’s three-leg European teaching tour.

Choose to attend one teaching in-person: Berlin, Amsterdam, or London and follow the other two teachings online. OR simply attend one teaching of your choice in a centre. Look out for a bundle-of-all-three teachings special rate!

Biography

If you were to ask Dungse-la how long he has been studying the Buddhist path, he would say, “Since I was born!”

Dungse Jampal Norbu is the son and Dharma heir of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and the teacher Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Dungse-la has lived and traveled extensively in Asia, but spent much of his youth in Colorado, USA. Dungse-la teaches classical Mahayana Buddhism for modern meditators. The true-to-life and fresh quality of his teachings is appreciated by many.

Listen EveryBodhi – Dungse’s contemporary podcast – to get a flavour of the teaching weekend!

https://everybodhipodcast.libsyn.com/

Evening sessions in London

Wednesday evenings – Enquire Within

10th April-10th July 2024, 6.30-8.30pm

*Please note: There are no sessions on Wednesday 29th May or 24th April*

Fake news, scams & AI – it’s hard to know who, or what we can trust.

What can we truly rely on to never let us down?

Where is the real source of our well-being?

Who are we truly?

Are we searching in the wrong places for answers, when all the time the answers lie within ourselves?

“Enquire Within” is a series of evenings where we explore the nature of reality using basic Buddhist principles that are as potent now as they were 2,500 years ago. Using contemplations, reflections and discussion we explore how these principles apply personally and practically as we gain a deep, experiential, embodied understanding, an inner knowing.

The evenings will be held by experienced instructors, within the environment of meditation practice.

Come along with us on this journey & Enquire Within.

Click here to book through Eventbrite.

Tuesday evenings – Drop-N1 – Meditation ‘drop-in’

We warmly invite you to join our drop-in meditation sessions, open to all, held weekly on Tuesdays from 6.30pm to 8pm with our experienced instructors in our London Centre at 330 Caledonian Road, London N1 1BB.

There isn’t a session on April 9th, 2024.

Click here to find out more and book a ticket on Eventbrite if you’d like to.

If a session needs to be cancelled we’ll let you know here so please do check first.

Previous events

Khentrul Rinpoche teaching on Shamatha and Vipashyana Instructions 

Weekend of 13 and 14 January 2024, 10am-5pm, Rigpa Centre, London

We are delighted that Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche will be teaching on Shamatha and Vipashyana Instructions from the Cycle of Training the Mind by Mipham Rinpoche. Khentrul Rinpoche is a Tibetan monk and director of Katog Choling, a nonprofit organization based in the United States. His principal root guru was His Holiness Jigmé Phuntsok Rinpoche. 

Khentrul Rinpoche combines his profound knowledge of the Buddhist philosophy with an equally extensive capacity for presenting information with simplicity and clarity. He is an expert at extracting the meaning of a teaching, conveying it concisely, and supporting it with both logic and kind-hearted humour.

Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche – Weekend Retreat on Buddha Nature

Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July, Rigpa Centre, London

Rigpa UK is honoured and delighted to welcome back Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, an exceptional and contemporary voice of wisdom for our times.

In this weekend retreat, Rinpoche will teach on the theme of Buddha Nature. In her book This Precious Life, she says:

“Buddha Nature is the heart quality of all sentient beings. It is necessary to recognise this core essence in ourselves as well as in others. Our own basic nature is free from ignorance, grasping, and conceptual judgements. There is no room for illusion or falsity in absolute truth…. This intrinsic ground of goodness is undeniable. All beings appreciate qualities of goodness, wisdom, compassion, and kindness because this is our fundamental nature.”



Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche teaching on Heart Advice in Four Lines

Thursday 11 May, 7pm-9pm, Rigpa Centre, London

Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche will be teaching on Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s profound and pithy Heart Advice in Four Lines, a text well-known and loved by many, and at once accessible to anyone with an interest in Dharma. In these four short lines, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche encapsulates the entire Buddhist path, which includes the cultivation of non-distraction, devotion, the recollection of death and impermanence, and compassion.


Weekend Meditation Retreat in London – 5th & 6th November 2022: ‘Awakening to our True Nature’

Rigpa UK invites you to this weekend retreat, held at their National Centre in London, which offers a chance to explore the practice of meditation, as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition—the Buddha’s profound method for transforming the mind and awakening our true nature.

Open to all (age 18 or over)

Retreat schedule
Saturday  10am to 5pm 
Sunday 10am to 4pm

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