Compassion Kadampa Buddhist Centre

06/04/2026

Today begins our 7 day URBAN RETREAT at Compassion Centre. Based on the 21 Meditations of The New Meditation Handbook.
You can drop in for one session, attend a morning, a whole day, or attend the whole seven days 😃 No experience necessary!

URBAN RETREAT
Guided Meditations on the Buddhist Path
Monday–Sunday 6–12th April
Drop in for individual sessions or attend the whole event
Retreat provides an opportunity to take spiritual teachings to heart, gain experience of meditation. and deepen our understanding and familiarity with essential practices of meditation and modern Buddhism.
Lamrim is a special set of instructions that includes all the essential teachings of Buddha. The retreat will be based on the 21 Lamrim meditations in the book The New Meditation Handbook

This retreat is guided by the senior students of Compassion Centre and concludes on the Sunday with a one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality - Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden
Everyone is welcome.

Drop in Session times:
Monday–Friday
9–10am
11am–12pm
5–6:15pm
7–8pm

Saturday and Sunday
10–11am
12–1pm
2–3pm
4–5pm

05/04/2026

Happy NKT Day! Thank you to our kind volunteers who took part in Centre Cherishing and Street Cleanup yesterday for NKT Day ✨🙏🏼✨

26/03/2026

26/03/2026

Withdraw from the city chaos and in the quiet calm of Compassion Kadampa Meditation Centre, explore Buddha’s most profound teaching on the way things really are- emptiness. Like seeing through an illusion, by growing our wisdom our idea of a fixed and inherently existent self, world and others begins to dissolve. In this way we can live in a lighter, more flexible way where constant change and possibility becomes tangible.
“If we realise emptiness directly we will attain permanent liberation from the sufferings of this life and countless future lives; there is no greater meaning than this” – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Gen Norden has over thirty years experience of teaching emptiness.
Everybody welcome!

Three sessions of practical instruction and guided meditations.
10–11am
12–1pm
2–3pm

This day can attended by itself, with no prior experience or can be attended as part of our week long Urban Retreat - Guided Meditations on the Buddhist Path

A Glimpse Into Reality –
Meditations on emptiness
Day Retreat with Resident Teacher, Gen Norden
Sunday 12th April
10am–3pm.

25/03/2026

URBAN RETREAT
Guided Meditations on the Buddhist Path
Monday–Sunday 6–12th April
Drop in for individual sessions or attend the whole event
Retreat provides an opportunity to take spiritual teachings to heart, gain experience of meditation. and deepen our understanding and familiarity with essential practices of meditation and modern Buddhism.
Lamrim is a special set of instructions that includes all the essential teachings of Buddha. The retreat will be based on the 21 Lamrim meditations in the book The New Meditation Handbook

This retreat is guided by the senior students of Compassion Centre and concludes on the Sunday with a one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality - Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden
Everyone is welcome.

Drop in Session times:
Monday–Friday
9–10am
11am–12pm
5–6:15pm
7–8pm

Saturday and Sunday
10–11am
12–1pm
2–3pm
4–5pm

24/03/2026

STREET CLEAN UP DAY
Join in with our annual outer and inner spring cleaning!
In celebration of NKT (New Kadampa Tradition) Day.
Saturday 4th April, 2–4pm

Bring your time, energy and your marigolds and come to join us in cleaning up the area in the neighbourhood surrounding Compassion Centre. Mark Watson will be coordinating volunteers on the day to do a little light gardening, cleaning of the back lane and more…! If you’d like to bake something for the workers - bring it along :)

21/03/2026

WHAT’S ON 23rd - 30th March?
Monday 23rd
• Hexham Class 10:15-11:30am
• Heart Jewel 5pm *
• TTP 6:30-8:30pm

Tuesday 24th
• Compassion Centre Drop in Class
10:30-11:45am *
• Heart Jewel 5pm *
• Compassion Centre Drop in Class 6:30-8pm *

Wednesday 25th
• Offering to the Spiritual Guide (also FP) 10:30-12:05 *
• Heart Jewel 5pm *
• Cullercoats Class 7-8:15pm

Thursday 26th
• Morpeth Class 11-12:15
• Heart Jewel 5pm *
• FP 6:30-8:30pm

Friday 27th
• Long Protector Puja part 1 2-4pm *
• Long Protector Puja part 2 4:30-5:30pm *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 7-8:30pm *

Saturday 28th
• Vajrasattva Retreat 7:30-9am *
• Compassion Centre Drop in Class 10-11:15am *
• Heart Jewel 11:45am *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 2-3:30pm *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 4:30-6pm *

Sunday 29th
• Vajrasattva Retreat 7:30-9am *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 10-11:30am •
• Vajrasattva Retreat 4:30-6pm *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 7-8:30pm *

Monday 30th
• Vajrasattva Retreat 7:30-9am *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 10-11:30am *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 4:30-6pm *
• Vajrasattva Retreat 7-8:30pm *

✨Chanted prayers Heart Jewel and Offering to the Spiritual Guide plus the Self Guided Vajrasattva Retreat will be live-streamed to members (*), in addition to Tuesday and Saturday drop in classes. ✨

16/03/2026

Another marvelous retreat day at St Mary’s Lighthouse and Island. Back by popular demand from last year, Gen Norden and a fully booked gathering of new and longtime community enjoyed a day of learning ‘How to Purify Your Karma” One new couple came as an alternative way to celebrate their 60th birthdays. Surrounded by seals and water, this was a stranding retreat, where the sea comes in and cuts the lighthouse off from the shore for a few hours before the tide again goes out and the causeway appears again for us to leave. We’re already looking forward to coming back!

06/03/2026

Learn To Meditate Workshop
Saturday 7 March | 14:00 – 16:30
Find peace of mind - everyone welcome. Sign up: https://compassioncentre.org/learn-to-meditate-workshop/

Compassion Kadampa Meditation Centre, 2 Station Rd, South Gosforth NE3 1QD.

Beginners meditation workshop. Establishing a regular meditation practice can seem overwhelming at first. Do I need any special equipment? How long should I meditate for? What’s the goal exactly? What about those apps – are they any good?

Get the answers to all these questions and more at our Learn To Meditate workshop. Learn proven strategies for calming the mind, reducing stress, and finding peace wherever you are.

3 sessions of practical instruction, guided meditations and question and answer.

TEACHER
Jeanette has practised meditation for many years and teaches with clarity, warmth, and lived experience.
SCHEDULE
14:00 – 14:40 | Session 1
Refreshments break
14:55 – 15:35 | Session 2
Refreshments break
15:50 – 16:30 | Session 3

03/03/2026

Learn To Meditate Workshop
Saturday 7 March | 14:00 – 16:30
Find peace of mind - everyone welcome. Sign up: https://compassioncentre.org/learn-to-meditate-workshop/

Compassion Kadampa Meditation Centre, 2 Station Rd, South Gosforth NE3 1QD.

Beginners meditation workshop. Establishing a regular meditation practice can seem overwhelming at first. Do I need any special equipment? How long should I meditate for? What’s the goal exactly? What about those apps – are they any good?

Get the answers to all these questions and more at our Learn To Meditate workshop. Learn proven strategies for calming the mind, reducing stress, and finding peace wherever you are.

3 sessions of practical instruction, guided meditations and question and answer.

TEACHER
Jeanette has practised meditation for many years and teaches with clarity, warmth, and lived experience.
SCHEDULE
14:00 – 14:40 | Session 1
Refreshments break
14:55 – 15:35 | Session 2
Refreshments break
15:50 – 16:30 | Session 3

21/02/2026

𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧: NOW OFFERING LIVESTREAMING
DEVELOPING FAITH & WISDOM ~ as a fortunate modern Kadampa disciple
The Blessing Empowerment of Wisdom Buddha Manjushri
𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 W𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗗 W𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥
𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟳 - 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre

𝗚𝗲𝗻-𝗹𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗸𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗶 𝗞𝗠𝗖 – 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱!

This event will also be available via live streaming. As you will be joining a live event, sessions are only available at the scheduled time and will not be available afterwards. Since this is a national event, you must be a resident of the United Kingdom to attend online.

▶️ Feb 27 - March 1, 2026 ~ Empowerment of Wisdom Buddha Manjushri & Teachings with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong
▶️ March 1 - 3, 2026 ~ The course will be followed by a short retreat with Gen Lochani

Bookings will open here:
https://manjushri.org/events-new/weekend-with-general-spiritual-director

08/02/2026

We enjoyed a meaningful day today with Gen Norden, contemplating how to liberate ourselves from the three types of suffering, and in this way, be able to help others do the same 🙏🏼 Lovely to see plenty of people from our three study programmes and plenty of new people there as well 😀

We have two mini retreats at the centre on Sat 21st Feb and Sat 7th March 2-4:30pm and then…

On 15th March we have a Day retreat on St Mary’s Island with Gen Norden, a space to contemplate how to purify our karma.
£25 or £15 for members - please book IN ADVANCE to help us plan the lunch (and please note numbers are limited).

https://compassioncentre.org/how-to-purify-your-karma-at-st-marys-lighthouse/