The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order started its first
centre in Scotland more than twenty years ago when the Glasgow centre was opened.
Scotland's second FWBO centre was opened in Edinburgh and Dhanakosa
retreat centre, in Scotland's beautiful Trossachs area was opened in the 1980's.
Buddhist meditation and dharma activities were taken to the north
of Scotland in 1997. There are now groups in Inverness, the capital city of the scottish highlands, set at the eastern end
of the Caledonian Canal where it enters the Moray Firth, the biggest fjord on the eastern coast of Scotland, and in Forres,
25miles east along the coast of the Moray Firth.
The most recently formed FWBO buddhist group in the north
of scotland is in Tain, thirty miles north of Inverness on the south coast of the Dornoch Firth, the most northerly fjord
on the east coast of Scotland.
As well as the weekly meetings of these groups, there are regular
day retreats for buddhist study and enquiry,meditation and devotional ritual which are held in different venues
to enable equable access for everyone in this widely spread sangha. Events with children's activities are included to give
parents a chance to meet and support each other in practising within a busy family context.
Anyone who has learned the two basic meditation practices- the
mindfulness of breathing and the metta bhavana is welcome to come to any of the events.
For information, contact : phone 0845 337 2921
