buddhist meditation and mindfulness society at sussex university

This group is sponsored and run as a University Society by Sussex University students and is guided by a student from Maitrikara. Each session comprises shamatha-vipashyana (calm abiding - insight) meditation. At present the group is studying a text called "Start Where You Are" - a commentary on a Tibetan text called "the Seven Points of Mind Training". Meetings are from 6pm to 7pm every Monday during term time at:

Training room 2
Falmer Building
Sussex University.

Facilitator: Paul Johanson
tel: 01273 270198 (evenings)
email: paulijohan@yahoo.co.uk

study and practice group

The group meets on weekday evenings, and occasionally for a whole day at weekends, here at Freshfield Street. The evening or day includes guidance and practice on meditation and recitation as well as the study of various root texts and commentaries. At present we are studying "The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shantideva together with the commentary "The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech" by Kunzang Pelden.

Facilitator: Larrie Gethin or other long term Chanteloube students.

seminars

Our teachers visit us regularly to give instruction directly to the group and also to hold more public seminars.

tsog ceremonies

These are held on the 10th and 25th of each Tibetan month and also on the anniversaries of the lineage teachers.

For more information about the above groups please contact Larrie Gethin:
Phone: 01273 675803.
email: info@maitrikara.org.uk