Rigpa Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre

What Is Rigpa?

Rigpa is an international network of centres and groups in over 30 countries, offering the Buddha’s teachings in a way that is both authentic and beneficial for people in the modern world.Rigpa was founded 35 years ago by Sogyal Rinpoche, a world-renowned Buddhist teacher from Tibet, who is also the author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Rigpa has the gracious patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and each national Rigpa association has charitable and non-profit status.

Our courses and programmes are designed to help people face the challenges of everyday life. We introduce thousands of people every year to simple meditation techniques and methods for training in compassion, which have been developed over centuries and are easy to apply. Rigpa also offers an authentic programme of study and practice in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition of Tibet.

As well as bringing peace of mind, these methods have been shown to be beneficial in many different ways, including tackling stress, depression and other mental health problems. They can also help us to develop more kindness and warm-heartedness for ourselves, our families and those around us.

Through our Spiritual Care Programme, we have offered courses to more than 30,000 healthcare professionals, teaching them simple and practical ways to care better for themselves and their patients. We also run a number of courses designed to help people cope with illness and bereavement.

Meditation can be described as a process of getting to know our own mind, or coming to understand and work with the mind.Although it can be presented as a subject that is vast and extremely profound, the basics of meditation are actually very simple. Anyone can meditate, and you can do it almost anywhere and at any time.

With meditation practice, the environment of our mind and heart transforms, and we can find contentment and happiness. Scientific research has also revealed that meditation brings a range of benefits for our health, and can help with anxiety, stress and depression.

As we gradually integrate meditation into our everyday life, there builds in us a simplicity, stability and confidence with which we can meet life and the complexity of the world with composure, compassion, ease and humour.

Welcome to Rigpa London.

We teach meditation courses in London in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to people from anywhere in the world and from all walks of life.Additionally, we also offer a diverse and engaging programme to learn about Buddhism in a way that is both completely authentic and fully meets the needs of men and women in modern times.

Students can apply different aspects of these teachings to their lives in ways that bring inner development and benefit to others – and without necessarily having to think of themselves as ‘Buddhist’. At the same time, the teachings can be followed as a lifetime path of study and practice.Rigpa UK has been holding meditation courses in London since 1970, and for the last 20 years we have been located on the Caledonian Road – just 5 minutes from Kings Cross.