Does anyone know if teenagers in the UK in the 70’s could learn to meditate on retreat at a Buddhist Centre?
Nov.24, 2007 in
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Belle asked:
I am doing some research into meditation for young people in the UK and have gone back to 1980 and can’t find anything relating to accompanied youngsters staying at Buddhist meditations centres on retreat during that time, having Google’d and Yahoo’d the subject. Someone mentioned that the Manjushri Centre in Ulverston, UK used to arrange this. There is no indication on their website. Does anyone know, please?
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I am doing some research into meditation for young people in the UK and have gone back to 1980 and can’t find anything relating to accompanied youngsters staying at Buddhist meditations centres on retreat during that time, having Google’d and Yahoo’d the subject. Someone mentioned that the Manjushri Centre in Ulverston, UK used to arrange this. There is no indication on their website. Does anyone know, please?
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November 25th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
uh… what?
November 26th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
There was a Buddhist retreat at Langholm in the Scottish borders as well. It had been around for a long time when I was at school in the 70’s. The visitors were multi-faith (one of my teachers went for at least a weekend every year).
Sorry, I can’t for the life of me remember its name.
Pangel: The one I’m thinking of is on the mainland. I have no idea if its still there.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
this is most likely the place Skip is talking about
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December 1st, 2007 at 8:53 am
It was not availale to normal people to was the likes of the beatles who went and explored another way of life
December 4th, 2007 at 5:13 am
Try the bok the Great Retreat guide listing all retreat centres in Uk
December 6th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Hi Belle,
I have a 70+ year old friend who used to go to a place called Samye Ling (aka Holy Island), in Scotland, around that time / earlier.
It is a very well known place, held in very high esteem still.
Is (still) run by Tibetan Buddhists, and / but has a spiritual history going back to Roman times / earlier.
There is / was another place operating at that (and this) time, known as “Findhorn”, also in Scotland.
You can Google both.
Good Luck!
December 6th, 2007 at 11:00 am
world Buddhist directory - UK
December 7th, 2007 at 4:17 am
That’s a Soto Zen monastery in Northumberland. They do lots of retreats there and are most amenable. Try dropping them an email.
December 9th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Try
I was there when a student back in the early 70.They might help.