Auckland Buddhist Centre

The Auckland Buddhist Centre Making the Dharma available and accessible to all who seek its wisdom Nau mai, haere mai! We acknowledge with gratitude the tangata whenua and all those who have come before us - our ancestors and forebears, our Dharma teachers, and our Buddhist lineage. Our core purpose is to make the Buddha’s teaching available and accessible to all who seek its wisdom. Whatever your gender identification, ethnic, cultural or religious background, sexual orientation and so on, you are welcome to learn and practise the Dharma with us. Our ability to meet this aspiration depends on the generosity and spiritual maturity of a small team of people, who are mostly volunteers. We have been located at 381 Richmond Road in Grey Lynn, an inner residential suburb of Auckland City, for more than 25 years. We offer a broad program of events and activities including meditation and Buddhism courses, retreats and festivals throughout the year. Sangha as the heart of the Auckland Buddhist Centre Sangha is a Sanskrit word for community. Traditionally it refers to all the enlightened men and women who have come before us, and in the East it usually means the community of monks and nuns. Triratna Buddhist Community Deriving contemporary and practical inspiration from the Buddha and this Teachings of the Path to Awakening Buddhism is a tradition of teachings and practices that help people to unfold the inner riches of love, wisdom and energy that lie within us all. Despite being actively practised for over 2500 years in some countries, it has become more accurately understood and deeply appreciated in the West only in the last hundred years. This greater clarity and richer depth requires us to 'wake up' within our experience, and therefore implies a need to find ways of actually practising in midst of contemporary life.