ABOUT US
West Wales Buddhist Group
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Who Are We?
West Wales Buddhist Group
West Wales Buddhist Group is a welcoming, lively community in Aberystwyth exploring what it really means to train the mind. Drawing on the Buddha’s ancient — and relentlessly practical — teachings, we practise meditation and other Buddhist mind-trainings to grow clarity, compassion and awareness for life as it actually is.
This isn’t about retreating from the world, but meeting it more fully — and discovering the potential of the mind to benefit ourselves and others.
We practise together, question together, and learn how ancient wisdom becomes a living force in a modern world.
West Wales Buddhist Group is part of the Triratna Buddhist Community. Open to newcomers and those with an established meditation or Buddhist practice.
Train your mind. Live awake.
Where Are We?
We meet at the Ty Cwrdd Y Crynwyr / Quaker Meeting House, Penparcau, Aberystwyth, SY23 1SZ.
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Parking is available on the nearby roads, and there's a regular bus service from town.
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Triratna Buddhist Community
About Our Tradition
This is the 21st century - not ancient India or medieval Japan.
The Triratna Buddhist Community is a worldwide movement of people who try to put the the Buddha’s teachings into practice in this society and this world.
Triratna is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘Three Jewels’: the Buddha, Dharma (teachings) and Sangha (the community of all those who follow the teachings).
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Triratna was founded in 1967 as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) by Urgyen Sangharakshita, and was renamed the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community in 2010, as it had grown beyond the West, and is now represented on all the world’s inhabited continents.
Sangharakshita was a great and inspiring teacher, both a traditionalist and an innovator. Part of his success lay in his ability to experiment, keeping the essence of Buddhism while letting go of out-dated cultural forms. Yet this experimentation also led him to become at times a controversial figure, dividing opinion.
Triratna Buddhist Order
'Commitment is primary, lifestyle is secondary'
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The Triratna Buddhist Order is a community of committed practitioners who place the practice of Buddhism at the heart of their lives, no matter what their lifestyles. Some live with their families and work in conventional jobs, others live in communities and work together in Buddhist teams, others live and practise in retreat centres with a more monastic focus.