Welcome ...
... to the home of Kadampa Buddhism in Southampton, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset.
Established in 1996 and located in Southampton, Thekchen Buddhist Centre provides a peaceful and inspiring environment where people from all walks of life can learn about Buddhism and meditation and enrich their spiritual lives.
Open to everyone, the Centre provides a year-round programme of meditation classes, study programmes, courses and retreats that offers practical advice on how to apply Buddha's teachings to our daily activities.
Improving the Quality of Life
By practising Buddha's teachings we protect ourselves from suffering and problems. All the difficulties we experience in daily life arise from having an uncontrolled and unpeaceful mind: meditation helps us to develop a peaceful and happy mind.
Improving the quality of our human life does not depend upon external development or material progress, but on the inner development of peace and happiness.
Our local meditation classes can be found in...
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