We, the OBV Sangha, warmly invite you and your family to join our Summer Camp for Children and Families, at Oxford Buddha Vihara, FoD, St. Briavels.
This special camp is a wonderful opportunity for children and parents to spend meaningful time together, learning Dhamma, practicing mindfulness, and enjoying a peaceful, supportive environment. All are sincerely welcome.
Location: Oxford Buddha Vihara (FoD), Park Farm, Park Lane, St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, GL15 6QX
Dates and times: Tuesday July 26th to Sunday 1st August 2025
OBV Lunar New Year Blessing Ceremony 2025
The Lunar New Year, held in April, is an ancient annual festival for Thai, Burmese, Sri Lankan, Laotian, Cambodian, Nepalese, and Indian people. On this occasion, which falls on the 13th, 14th, and 15th of April, various cultural and religious celebrations are held to mark the New Year. For all Buddhists, this is also the time to make merits in dedication to the departed relatives and to ask for forgiveness and blessings from parents, grandparents, and elders. Each culture has its own name for the event, for example: Songkran for the Thai, Thingyan for Burmese and Aluth Avurudu for Sinhalese.
To celebrate the occasion this year, the Oxford Buddha Vihara will be holding a merit-making and blessing ceremony for the Buddhist community at Tingewick Hall.
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you, together with your family and friends, to join us in starting off the New Year with merits and blessings. You may contribute food for the monks, which will be shared among the devotees. There will also be opportunities to purchase food, with proceeds donated to the Vihara.
Bathing Rites for the Buddha statue, the Monks and the Elders
Receiving New Year Blessings
Sharing of merits with departed relatives and all beings
14:45 End of the Programme
We look forward to welcoming you to this joyous occasion.
With warm regards,
OBV Sangha
Easter Retreat with Ven. Dr. Khammai Dhammasami
Dear Dhamma Friends,
We, OBV Sangha, are extending an invitation to all devotees to join us for Easter Meditation Retreat and Dhamma Talk by Ven. Dr. Khammai Dhammasami DPhil (Oxford).
Please contact us using the details below to book your space. Letting us know you are coming will ensure that seating space, accommodation and food can be made freely available for you.
Location: Oxford Buddha Vihara (FoD), Park Farm, Park Lane, St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, GL15 6QX
Dates and times: Saturday & Sunday 19-20 April 2025, from 08:00 to 21:00
Dhamma Talk by Bhante Sujato – 31st January 2025
A talk by Bhante Sujato: The Eye of the Storm
We invite you to a Dhamma talk to be given by Bhante Sujato at the OBV in place of our regular Friday night group meeting on January 31st 2025. A senior monk who received higher ordination at Wat Pa Nanachat in 1994, Bhante Sujato is based in Sydney, Australia and has become well-known globally through his co-founding and development of the online platform, SuttaCentral.
We would like you to join us in welcoming Bhante Sujato to the OBV to share the Dhamma.
Theme of the talk: “The Eye of the Storm”.
The world, it seems, is mad and chaotic. What if this were not a distraction but the essential condition for the stillness that sees?
About Bhante Sujato
Bhante Sujato (also known as Ajahn Sujato or Bhikkhu Sujato) is a senior Buddhist monk from Australia. Before he was ordained, he was a member of the Australian rock band, Martha’s Vineyard. In 1994 he left his music career to ordain in Thailand in the forest lineage of Ajahn Chah. As well as living for several years in forest monasteries and remote hermitages in Thailand, he spent three years in Bodhinyana Monastery (Perth) as secretary of Ajahn Brahm and a year in a cave in Malaysia.
Bhante Sujato combines his love of meditation with study of the Buddha’s Teachings, from practical, comparative and historical perspectives. In 2001 he published his first book “A Swift Pair of Messengers,” which shows how tranquillity and insight work together. He also served as founding Abbot of Santi Forest Monastery from 2003-2012.
In 2005, Bhante Sujato co-founded SuttaCentral, an online digital library of early Buddhist texts that includes sutta translations from the Pali, Chinese and Tibetan languages. Since 2012, Bhante Sujato has focused on translation of the Pali suttas into English. These translations are freely available at SuttaCentral.
New Year’s Eve Chanting – 2025
Chanting on New Year’s Eve
On New Year’s Eve, December 31st, we’ll gather together at 11.30pm for a special chanting session to welcome the New Year 2025 with positivity and mindfulness. Following this, we’ll have a Dhamma discussion and blessing from the Sangha to set our good intentions for the coming year.
All are welcome. Feel free to bring friends, family, or anyone interested in practising mindfulness and chanting into the New Year.
Location: OBV Oxford
With Metta
Ven Mahasena
Christmas Retreat
We will be holding a 7-day meditation retreat over the Christmas period. All are welcome.
For more information and to book, please see our events page.
Kathina Ceremony on 3rd November 2024
As every year, OBV holds Kathina ceremony. This year it will fall on Sunday 3rd November from 10am – 2.30pm.
Please check our events page for more information.
Monthly Day Retreat – May
Dear Dhamma friends,
This is an announcement of our upcoming monthly one-day retreat on Saturday, May 25th, starting at 8:30 am and finishing at 4:30 pm at OBV Oxford. As always, please feel free to join.
With Metta,
OBV Sangha
Invitation to Vesak/Visakha Puja Ceremony
Dear Dhamma friends,
Additionally, we also would like to invite all to join us for the Vesak/Visakha puja ceremony, taking place at OBV on Sunday, May 26th. This sacred occasion commemorates the birth, enlightenment (Nibbāna), and passing (Parinirvāna) of the Buddha.
During the ceremony, there will be the observance of the five precepts, Paritta chantings including the Dhammacakka Pavattanasutta, Dhamma talk and discussion, mindfulness meditation practice, giving alms and offering lunch to the sangha, and candle light procession.
All are warmly welcome.
With Metta,
OBV Sangha
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