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Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh is based in the heart of vibrant Leith in Edinburgh.

We offer a vibrant programme of meditation classes & retreats online & in person from Edinburgh with weekly classes also in Dundee, Falkirk and Melrose. 💗 Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh

Modern Buddhism is a special presentation of Buddha’s teachings designed especially for the people of the modern world. Its introduction into contemporary society has been pioneered by the world-renowned meditation master and scholar, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche. It is a practical way of life based on wisdom and compassion that is open to everyone regardless of age, race, gender or faith.

22/11/2025

🎊Hogmanay Meditation & Celebration 🎊
✨~An Alternative New Year’s Eve! ✨
Wednesday 31 December | 8pm - 12.30am

Looking for a beautiful and meaningful way to celebrate the New Year?

Join us for an uplifting, alcohol-free evening filled with connection, inspiration, and peace — right in the heart of the city.

Start the evening at a cosy mocktail reception. Start the evening with a cosy mocktail reception, then enjoy guided meditations and teachings to help you reflect, gently let go of 2025, and set heartfelt intentions for 2026. In this way, we can begin our inner glow-up for the New Year — awakening our potential for happiness, peace, and purpose.

After a delicious vegetarian meal shared with others, we’ll gather by candlelight to meditate on compassion and conclude the night with peaceful mantra chanting over the bells – all dedicated to world peace. A beautiful, positive start to the year ahead!

More details and booking is available at: https://meditateinedinburgh.org/hogmanay-meditation-celebration/

Everyone Welcome 💗

21/11/2025

🤍The Peace of a Pure Mind - Vajrasattva Purification Retreat 🤍
Guided by Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Tubchen
Sat 6 - Sun 7 December; 10.30am - 4.30pm

Through beautiful sung prayers, mantra recitation, guided meditation and visualisation you can remove obstacles to your spiritual development, experience a peaceful, pure mind and create a positive, happy world.

Everything will be clearly explained during the weekend to help us understand how to engage in the practice and get the most out of the retreat.

There is a quiet back garden, a cafe, a library and nearby Pilrig park that you can enjoy between sessions. The day is structured to include time for quiet contemplation, discussing the topics with others, eating together & walking in nature.

For more info & booking visit 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/the-peace-of-a-pure-mind/

Everyone Welcome 💗

20/11/2025

🌺Workshop in Melrose last Weekend🌼

Last Saturday, we enjoyed another meditation workshop with Gen Tubchen on 'How to Stop Overthinking'. This time, the workshop was held at the Chaplaincy Centre at Borders General Hospital, which is the venue for the Thursday evening class with Kadampa Teacher Chammy.

In this spacious, deeply still place, we enjoyed listening and contemplating ways of dealing with overthinking and helpful strategies we can use in daily life to respond more helpfully to the patterns of thinking that cause us problems.

We also shared a buffet lunch together and enjoyed meaningful conversations together.

For more details on the weekly Melrose class 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/melrose-meditation-class-3/

This Saturday we have a short retreat here at the Centre, for more details 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/meditations-for-relaxation/

Everyone Welcome 💗

19/11/2025

😌COMING UP IN DECEMBER🎄

✨Sat 6 & Sun 7 Dec join us in-person at the Centre for 'The Peace of a Pure Mind - Solitary Vajrasattva guided retreat with Gen Tubchen. 🤍
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/the-peace-of-a-pure-mind/

✨Sun 14 Dec - Happiness Hour & Festive Community Meal: This special festive event is all about slowing down, reconnecting, and giving ourselves (and others!) the gift of inner peace. Enjoy a peaceful, heart-warming morning with our community.
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/festive-event-meditation-community-lunch/

✨Sun 21 Dec - Calm in the Chaos - Silent Day Retreat: Whether you’re looking for a peaceful pause from the holiday rush, seeking some stillness in a busy season, or simply want a quiet space for yourself during the Christmas period, this silent retreat day offers a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone.
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/calm-in-the-chaos-silent-day-retreat/

✨Wed 31 Dec - Hogmanay Meditation & Celebration: Looking for a beautiful and meaningful way to celebrate the New Year? Join us for an uplifting, alcohol-free evening filled with connection, inspiration, and peace — right in the heart of the city.
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/hogmanay-meditation-celebration/

Everyone Welcome 💗

18/11/2025

😀😃Photos from our Community Workshop last Monday💗✨

Last Monday's Community Workshop was a lively and welcoming evening of brainstorming, idea sharing, and community building.

We started off with pizza and refreshments whilst marking up two big maps of where our Community are located and where people could imagine classes and pop-up courses appearing in the future.

We then moved through to the meditation room where Kelsang Varahi, the Centre's Admin Director inspired everyone to put their thinking caps on and come up with common themes of what people love about the Centre and ideas they have of how we can connect more people to the current and expanding programme. Thank you to everyone who attended for your great enthusiasm and ideas 💗

15/11/2025

It's the season of impermanence. 🍂 Edinburgh has been awash with beautiful colour the last few weeks and now as the last leaves fall from the trees we feel the winter gathering in. It's a lovely time to meditate, coming in out of the cold and taking time to be still in the company of others. A great place to start is our weekly Happiness Hour at 11am on Sundays.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Enjoy two meditations and a short talk on Buddhist techniques for happiness. Followed by Coffee / Speciality Tea, croissants and friendly conversation in the cafe. Come with friends or come on your own and make new friends. ☕️

https://meditateinedinburgh.org/sunday-morning-meditation-class/

14/11/2025

✨TOMORROW AT THE CENTRE✨

10 - 11.15am
🎈KIDS CLUB 👧🧒
with Kadampa Teacher Jude
Meditation · Stories · Games · Crafts · Snacks!
November topic - Roots of Patience.
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/childrens-workshop/

2 - 5pm (including a 45 min break)
😌HALF DAY COURSE - SET YOUR MIND FREE!🌄
with Kadampa Teacher Kevin
If you are longing to be free from stress, free from worry, and want to live with more confidence, joy, or ease, then this might be the course for you.
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/set-your-mind-free/👉

Everyone Welcome 💗

13/11/2025

✨A Wonderful Day Course in Dundee!✨

Last Sunday, we enjoyed welcoming so many people to our Dundee meditation Workshop on 'How to Stop Overthinking' with Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Tubchen. We had two sessions of teachings, meditations and discussions. Gen Tubchen kindly shared with us reliable methods to counteract unhelpful habits of mind that cause overthinking and we discussed how we can practically apply them in our busy daily life.

These meaningful conversations continued over a plentiful lunch of shared dishes brought along by all the participants. Thank you to everyone who attended and all the people who helped to make the day happen. 😃

SAVE THE DATE - We will be holding another workshop in Dundee on Sunday 8 February 2026.

You can join weekly classes in Dundee on Wednesday evenings 7-8.15pm with Kadampa Teacher Catherine Marriott. See 👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/dundee-drop-in-class/

Everyone Welcome 💗

10/11/2025

🎈KIDS CLUB - ON SATURDAY MORNING 15 NOVEMBER😃
REMAINING 2025 DATES: 15 Nov & 13 Dec | 10 - 11.15AM
With Kadampa Teacher Jude McKerrecher

Helping kids grow peaceful, kind, and confident.
Autumn Series Theme: “Seasons to Flourish, Seasons to Nourish”
✨November: Roots of Patience
✨December: The Giving Heart

Each 75-minute session includes:
– A short guided meditation for children
– A child-friendly Dharma talk or story
– Discussion and gentle reflection
– Games and activities to reinforce the theme
– A creative craft project to take home
– Time for snack and friendship

📌 Practical Info:
– Suitable for ages ~5–10
– Children can attend one or all sessions
– A parent or guardian must accompany the children at all times, and they are welcome to join in with the meditations and activities.

Fee: £5 per child; £3 for additional siblings
Venue: KMC Edinburgh | 172 Leith Walk, EH6 5EA

For more details and booking, see :
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/childrens-workshop/

09/11/2025

𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗, 𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗘 W𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗
𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 W𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗗 W𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥
The Blessing Empowerment of Buddha Vajrasattva & Teachings on Purification Practice
𝟮𝟴 - 𝟯𝟬 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre

One of the most powerful methods Buddha taught to purify our mind is the meditation and recitation of Vajrasattva. Through this practice, we can swiftly and joyfully cleanse our mind of all impurity and eventually become a pure being, abiding in a pure world with the power to draw others to the bliss of perfect freedom.

Gen-la Dekyong will grant Vajrasattva empowerment and share with us how to purify our mind and our world. Following the special weekend course, there will be an opportunity to do retreat on the practice of Vajrasattva.

‘Attaining enlightenment is very simple; all we need to do is apply effort to purifying our mind.’
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗼 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲

🤍28 - 30 Nov ~ Empowerment of Buddha Vajrasattva & Teachings with Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong
TO BOOK VISIT:
manjushri.org/events-new/pure-mind-pure-world
🌟Please let us know if we can help with accommodation advice (there are many offsite options) or to potentially connect you with a car-share or travel buddy.

08/11/2025

✨THIS MONDAY - TRY OUR NEW DAYTIME CLASS FOR FREE✨

From this Monday 10 November we are starting a new daytime class 11am - 12pm here at the Centre with Resident Teacher Gen Kelsang Tubchen. We warmly invite you to attend and the first class is FREE! For more details and booking visit: 👉💗👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/monday-morning-class/

Later in the day, we have Offering to the Spiritual Guide Prayers 4 - 5.45pm followed by an Interactive Community Workshop (starting with pizza @ 6.30pm🍕!).

In the workshop we would like to understand what Kadampa Meditation Centre Edinburgh means to you - what you love about our Centre, and for you to be a part of the vision for our centre going forward. Enjoy a lively and welcoming evening of brainstorming, sharing of ideas and community building.

Interested and want to be part of this journey?

Please book to attend at 👉 https://meditateinedinburgh.org/interactive-community-workshop/

Everyone Welcome💗

07/11/2025

🎈A Wonderful first class in Falkirk! 😃

On Wednesday, we held our first meditation class at Studio 164 in Falkirk and despite the weather, we almost had a full house. 💗

We enjoyed learning about the benefits of meditation and being guided through some meditations by Gen Tubchen. After the session, there was time for a hot drink and meaningful discussions.

Thank you so much to everyone who came along, and we look forward to continuing weekly classes from next week.

If you are interested in coming along, you'll find further details and booking here:
👉https://meditateinedinburgh.org/falkirk-drop-in-class/

Everyone Welcome 💗

Address

172 Leith Walk
Edinburgh
EH65EA

Telephone

+441316221956

Website

http://meditateinedinburgh.org/

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