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Meditation classes and Modern Buddhism in Aberdeen & North Scotland to improve mental health, happiness and well-being.

21/11/2025

😊 CENTRE CLOSED FOR RETREAT 😊

We head to Portsoy for our Heart of Wisdom weekend retreat with Gen Tubchen and so the centre will be closed. 💖
We re-open on Monday at 11am with our weekly class looking at the Secret to a Fulfilling Life. 💖

Have a good weekend everyone 💕

20/11/2025

PURIFYING PAST NEGATIVITY - VAJRASATTVA RETREAT | FRI 12 - SUN 14 DEC
with resident teacher Kelsang Yonchen

❓Do you find it difficult to make progress in your meditation practice?
❓Have negative habits you find hard to shift or find teachings confusing and obscure?
❓Do you find the same painful situations keep arising, in different circumstances?

🌟Buddha taught the law of karma, explaining that all our experiences of suffering comes from negative actions in the past…both in this life and over countless previous lives.

🌟Through the profound but simple practice of meditation and reciting mantras of Buddha Vajrasattva, we can learn how to purify all our negativity, opening the way for real progress on our spiritual path.😊

♡The retreat will begin with a clear introduction on Friday evening, explaining why and how to engage in the practice.

For more details & booking:
https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/sunday-courses/vajrasattva-retreat-12-14-dec/

19/11/2025

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18/11/2025

🌟 SIMPLY MEDITATE | TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS | 12.30PM - 1.00PM 🌟

Our regular lunchtime classes are growing in strength with many regulars popping in for their weekly half hour of peace, contemplation & meditation, followed by a return to work / home or a quick coffee & chat 💕

You don't need to be Buddhist to enjoy the tranquil surrounding of our centre.
Just come and see for yourself how half an hour of peaceful guided meditation benefits you (and others), for the rest of the day, the week and more! 💖

No need to book, just drop-in 😊

https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/simplymeditate/

17/11/2025

PORTSOY RETREAT 21 - 23 NOVEMBER | MEAL PREP HAS BEGUN!!

The preparation countdown to our weekend retreat in Portsoy has started with vegetable chopping activities beginning in earnest today!

We are looking forward to welcoming Gen Kelsang Tubchen back to teach on Buddha's most profound and transformative teaching - Emptiness 🌈🌈

We have had one last-minute cancellation with a twin room available for either male or female.
Please see the website if you wish to take up this special opportunity to engage in such a profound and beautiful retreat in the idyllic surroundings of the Moray coast 🌟

https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/sunday-courses/heart-of-wisdom-21-23-nov-2025/

16/11/2025

FESTIVE TALK & MEDITATION AND FESTIVE PARTY! | SUN 7 DECEMBER | FROM 11AM

How to Stay Positive followed by our annual festive lunch 💕

In this festive talk & meditation class, we can discover how we can develop healthy, happy habits that protect us from negativity and make this special holiday time and indeed, our whole life, joyful and beneficial to ourself and others.

Following the class, join us for our annual community festive party! 🎉🎉🎉

Let go of the season’s strains and stresses and enjoy a delicious 4 course vegetarian Christmas meal plus homemade non alcoholic punch enjoyed in great company in our cafe. Bring friends and family and enjoy a relaxing afternoon of food, festive chat and fund-raising raffle.
Booking is essential 😊

For details:
Festive talk
https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/sunday-courses/how-to-stay-positive-7-dec/

Festive lunch
https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/sunday-courses/festive-meal-7-dec/

15/11/2025

REMOTE & RURAL MEMBERSHIPS PROGRAMME EXPANDS TO CANADA!

Its wonderful to hear that Kadam Dharma is flourishing in the most northern parts of Canada with their remote and rural membership being modelled on our very own programme that we set up last year as a result of requests from our members in the highlands and islands!

Read all about it here:
https://kadampa.org/2025/11/events-from-all-corners-of-the-world?fbclid=IwY2xjawOESGBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGdkpzZEhaOTFtOEtLNU5yc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHn4-AL_7Bw1CCAcHruh3pXJYY55180bOmyuN8KsiexbOeSFMCCx-qMeQQPtm_aem_c38hBKEGa1u7RWizrVPfiw

And if you live in rural parts of north Scotland and would like to link in with our classes online, find out more about our remote and rural membership here:

https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/more-information/membership/ -id-3

14/11/2025

✨PURE MIND, PURE WORLD SPECIAL WEEKEND EVENT | MANJUSHRI KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTRE | 28 NOV - 2 DEC ✨
Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Vajrasattva and Teachings on Purification Practice
with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong, General Spiritual Director, New Kadampa Tradition.

One of the most powerful methods Buddha taught to purify our mind is the meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva. Through this practice, we can swiftly and joyfully cleanse our mind of all impurity and eventually become a pure being, abiding in a pure world with the power to draw others to the bliss of perfect freedom.

Gen-la Dekyong will grant Vajrasattva empowerment and share with us how to purify our mind and our world.

Following the special weekend course, there will be an opportunity to do retreat on the practice of Vajrasattva.

For more details & booking: https://manjushri.org/events-new/pure-mind-pure-world

13/11/2025

✨LETTING GO OF THE PAST | SUN 16 NOV | 10.30 - 1.30PM ✨
with resident teacher Kelsang Yonchen.

❓Do you sometimes feel stuck with painful memories?
❓Find it difficult to move on in life, from a loss or a past relationship, from being hurt or damaged something we did wrong, from painful memories or guilt?

🌟In this inspiring and thought-provoking course we can discover, through Buddhist teachings and guided meditations, how we can free ourselves from incorrect and undeserving ways of looking at our own past.
🌟 We can learn how to move forward in a way which is realistic and more forgiving of ourselves and others leading to a confident and promising future, free from painful memories.
🌟Everyone is welcome. No experience necessary.

📍Kadampa Meditation Centre Aberdeen
📅Sat 16 November
⏰10.30am - 1.30pm
💻For more details & booking: https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/letting-go-of-the-past/

11/11/2025

✨ HEART OF WISDOM RETREAT | PORTSOY | 21-23 NOVEMBER | LAST FEW PLACES REMAINING!✨
with visiting teacher Gen Kelsang Tubchen.✨

📍Join us for a very special weekend meditation retreat in the idyllic surroundings of Portsoy on the Moray coast.

😊This weekend retreat led by visiting teacher Gen Kelsang Tubchen, is an opportunity to embark upon and deepen our understanding about emptiness and discover that things do not exist outside of the mind but are just mere appearances, like dreams.

🌈This is Buddha’s most profound and transformative teaching; emptiness – the true nature of reality. 🌟🌟With this knowledge, we can solve all our problems, find freedom from all limitations, and be of the greatest benefit to the world.

💻To book your place visit https://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/sunday-courses/heart-of-wisdom-21-23-nov-2025/

Address

77/79 King Street
Aberdeen
AB245AB

Website

http://www.meditateinaberdeen.org/

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Kadampa Meditation Centre Aberdeen was founded in 2018 by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso for people in the North of Scotland to have the opportunity to learn about and practice Buddha’s teachings and have access to the methods for attaining the supreme inner peace of enlightenment.

To fulfill this aim we are creating a peaceful city sanctuary located in the heart of Aberdeen on King Street - a modern Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Centre. Due to the current Covid-19 restrictions we are currently offering meditations and classes online with our Resident Teacher, Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Tubchen. Gen Tubchen has been teaching internationally for the last 10 years and her meditations are very contemplative, practical and peaceful.

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