Please join us for regular events at Gomde Scotland. All welcome, please contact info@gomdescotland.org for more details.

Come along and join our regular SATURDAY MEDITATION DAY. You can come for part of the time, or all, as preferred. We meditate together, spend some time in discussion and reflection, as well as enjoying an opportunity to socialise. If you have any questions or would like directions, please Email: susan@gomdescotland.org There is no charge for the day, though donations are always welcome to help with costs. Thank you.

Timings:

• 10.30: Welcome
• 10.40 – 11am: CONTEMPORARY GUIDED MEDITATION
• 11.10 – 12noon: Discussion time and BOOK STUDY. We are currently reading Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s beautiful book, LOVE, SADNESS, OPENNESS: The Buddhist Path of Joy.
• 12noon: TEA BREAK
• 12.20– 12.55: BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI PUJA
• 1 – 2pm: POT LUCK LUNCH. Please bring something vegetarian to share.

Tags: Forres, Gomde, meditation, mindfulness, Nairn, practice., Scotland, study

WANT TO BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER.

KEEN TO VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS WHERE IT WILL MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.

COME AND JOIN OUR TEAM at GOMDE SCOTLAND

You will be part of a fantastic team working to help this beautiful project develop for the benefit of all. We are looking for people who would like to support Gomde with gardening, building, joinery, cooking, IT, electrics, plumbing, design, sewing, Health & Safety, tree care, and much more. You name it! We have an opening for you. Keen to get involved or find out more? Email: susan@gomdescotland.org. We really look forward to hearing from you.

Tags: Forres, meditation, mindfulness, Nairn, Scotland, volunteer

7-8.30pm Online.

Join us for our weekly Monday evening group which includes guided meditation, dharma study and discussion, and traditional Tibetan practice.

We look forward to welcoming you online to this joint initiative with our sister Gomde near Doncaster.  Sessions last from 7-8.30pm.

To receive details and zoom link for these sessions, please contact susan@gomdescotland.org
We look forward to welcoming you online.

Tags: Forres, Gomde, meditation, mindfulness, Nairn, practice., Scotland, study

Are you a TTE practitioner currently engaged in the Third Excellence (Outer Sadhana, Inner Sadhana, or Ngondro)? Gomde Scotland is offering a unique opportunity to practice Tara and benefit from the peace and beauty of this secluded and blessed hermitage. If you conduct a minimum of two sessions of the TTE Third Excellence daily, you will receive free accommodation. If, in addition, you offer a minimum of three hours of volunteer work per day (Monday to Friday), Gomde Scotland will also offer simple and delicious food. The duration of the stay can vary from two weeks to six months by mutual agreement.

For more information, please write directly to Gomde Scotland at info@gomdescotland.org

This beautiful woodland hermitage is seeking active, residential volunteers during the summer season to help mainly with building projects, maintenance and woodland management. We need practical, motivated people with joinery, basic carpentry, plumbing and general maintenance skills. We also need help with developing the web-page. Couples are also welcome to apply.

We had an amazing Outer Tara Sadhana retreat at Gomde Scotland, guided by Drubpon Lama Tenzin Sangpo, from August 9 to 23rd, 2024. 

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It was amazing and we are so grateful that Rinpoche took the time and effort to come. Rinpoche gave empowerments, filled the stupa at Gomde, blessed Loch Ness and gave a beautiful talk in Inverness. Thank you Rinpoche 🙂

Tags: Dilgo Khyenste Yangsi Rinpoche, gomde scotland, meditation

Many people came together here at Gomde Scotland for a relaxed gathering of our Buddhists friends of any tradition, or even none.

PLEASE NOTE -NEW DATES FOR LAMA OSER’S VISIT: Please join us and LAMA OSER at Gomde Scotland on Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th October 2023

In 2023 Rinpoche’s again was able to make a summer tour to Europe. See details below:

A Seminar with Lama Öser – Friday 28th to Sunday 30th of October 2022

During this seminar Lama Öser will address how we can support ourselves and others in challenging times. Challenges like our own personal difficulties, the pandemic, climate change war and the cost of living can cause physical, mental, emotional, financial, and social disruptions in our lives. This seminar will address how to alleviate suffering through Buddhist wisdom and guidance, aiming to increase our calmness, kindness and compassion. We will use the Buddha Shakyamuni Treasury of Blessings text and learn how to rely on refuge in the Three Jewels.

Tags: Buddhism, CHokyi Nyima Rinpoche, gomde scotland, lama oser, meditation

In the summer of 2022, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche traveled to Europe for the first time in two years. Eagerly awaited, Rinpoche visited Gomde Germany-Austria, Gomde UK and Gomde Pyrenées. All three seminars were a great success with hundreds of students gathered from all around the globe to receive Rinpoche’s profound teachings.

Tags: CHokyi Nyima Rinpoche, gomde germany austria, gomde pryeenes, gomde scotland, gomde uk, meditation

Gomde Scotland is delighted to be hosting Erik Pema Kunsang’s online BODHI TRAINING. In partnership with Gomde Denmark and renowned translator Erik Pema Kunsang, Gomde Scotland will provide this online course via monthly residential retreat events. Bodhi Training is an educational program in which you are guided through all levels of insight from the teachings of the Buddha, in English. This happens with the help of methods that support you in uncovering and realizing reality as it is. The aim of this program is to further develop your ability to meet all life situations with more compassion and deeper insight.

Tags: Bodhi Training, Buddhism, compassion, Erik Pema Kunsang, meditation, mindfulness