Upcoming events at Dragon Bell
The calendar for March and April is now live on the website Dragon Bell will be closed 13th-28th April, while I am assisting with the Jukai retreat at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey. There are places available for our Eden Rise residential retreat, 20th-24th May. Book yourself a place by getting in touch. Details here My […]
December news Dear friend, Seasons greetings and perhaps a belated best wishes to you for the Buddha’s Enlightenment (December 8th in our tradition and many others). I’m glad to say that we held our December residential retreat at the beginning of the month. It doesn’t make sense to me to say whether a retreat was good
We’re coming up to three months being here in the Willows and the temple is quite well settled. The schedule of events is up and running, we’ve held full day, half day, morning and evening meetings and the usual morning zazen sessions available on Zoom. The calendar for December is published here There are still
The calendars for October and November are posted on the calendar page I look forward to people coming to the temple to practice of the way of the Buddha together. In Gassho Willard
October and November events Read More »
The Temple’s new address: 7 The Willows Shillingford St George Exeter EX2 9QS We moved in on Saturday 8th, there was a good crew of eight for what turned out to be a long day, thank you all. The following 10 days or so has been fairly non-stop too, much has been done and thank
We will close from August 2nd until we are ready to re-open in our new premises. Watch this space for news of the restarting of events. The calendar has all current scheduled events and closing dates, these are subject to change. Looking forward to continuing in our new premises as soon as possible. Information about
Temporary Closure 2nd August Read More »
Dragon Bell Temple will be moving premises, hopefully at the beginning of August. Currently, most our belongings are packed up and the schedule of events is running at a minimum. Please check the calendar page for what is on offer. When we move, we will have to close for a period where there will be
June News Saturday 5th July will be a memorial day for Reverend Myfanwy, 9.00am-4.00pm. We’ll be honouring the fifth anniversary of her death. Please let me know if you are coming. It will be a bring and share lunch aka, ‘potluck’. The rest of July has a reduced schedule, the temple will be winding down
Hello, We have our spring residential retreat starting 28th and finishing on 1st June. There won’t be any of the usual weekly temple events during these dates. The normal schedule will resume on Tuesday 3rd. On Saturday 5th July, we’ll hold a memorial service for Rev. Myfanwy at Cross Farm. She died five years
What’s coming The calendar for May and June has been published on the website – https://dragonbelltemple.org.uk/calendar/ Currently it looks likely that we will be continuing at Cross Farm into the summer months, see property news below. There are likely to be an increasing number of works being carried out here in the coming months. The
