Akanishta Kadampa Buddhist Centre
Akanishta Centre is a local Buddhist Community. (charity, no. 1125213). Its purpose is to help people throughout the local area to increase their peace of mind and solve their problems through Buddhist meditation and understanding, the paths of wisdom and compassion. And to provide guidance, support and facilities for those wishing to follow the Buddhist path to enlightenment.
The Centre was founded in 2008 by the highly-respected meditaton master and author Geshe Kelsang Gyatso after a local group of students had worked together for many years to raise funds for a building, in which they could study and run meditation courses for the local community.
The Centre's name 'Akanishta' was given by Geshe-la. Akanishta is a pure land where Bodhisattvas attain enlightenment.
A Bodhisattva is someone who, motivated by great compassion, works to become enlightened in order to help all living beings. A pure land is the world which appears to the mind of such a pure being.
The centre is a member of the New Kadampa Tradition -International Kadampa Buddhist Union .
Akanishta Centre has a large, supportive community of lay and ordained practitioners from many different backgrounds and walks of life, living in the many towns and villages of the Cotswolds. As well as integrating the teachings into their own daily lives, many of them give their time and skills voluntarily to help Akanishta Centre.
Would you like to help support this important project?
Akanishta KBC is an independent charity (no. 1125213). We are a non profit organisation and all funds raised are used directly to maintain and improve the cente and cover the costs of running meditation classes in the community. We are completely dependent upon the people who give their time freely and offer their skills to help run the centre.
There is always a lot for us to do. Would you like to be part of a group trying to create a place of Refuge, where people can find solutions to daily life and improve their inner peace through meditation?
If you are someone who recognises the value of such a place and would like to contribute some time, your skills or make a donation then please contact our Admin Director Sarah Kneafsey at:
admin@meditationinincheltenham.org.uk