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Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre

buddhist retreat centre for women

Ritual and Imagination 2025

All | Introductory | Open | Triratna Regulars | Mitra Retreats | Going for Refuge | Order Retreats | Sangha

Ritual and Imagination 2025

1 - 10 Aug 2025
Led By: Dharmakarunya, Samantabhadri, Aryavandana, Maitrivajri
For: Going for Refuge Mitras, Triratna Order Members

This is an inspiring, important retreat for women on the path to ordination. Its
creative vision of beauty, of the transcendental, of the Buddhas and
Bodhisattvas, of the spiritual potential of the imagination, is a preparation for
later sadhana practice. It offers a deeper understanding of ritual and devotion
which will also support discussing and leading these practices as a
dharmacharini.

We ask that you do not come on this retreat until you have done at least one
retreat for women who are training for ordination. If you need to discuss this,
please talk with your local mitra convenor or contact us.

Please note that during this retreat a new office will be being built (on the opposite side of the carpark to the retreat centre). There will be some noise.

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Suggested donation (in addition to the booking fee): £410 waged / £290 unwaged

Booking Fee: £95.00

Single Rooms: No single rooms currently available on this retreat. Please email to go on single room waiting list.

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Paying for your retreat

Taraloka runs on generosity.

To book a retreat you pay a booking fee. This is the only charge made for coming on retreat. As far as possible, we don’t want anyone’s financial situation to stop them from coming to Taraloka.

At the end of your retreat, you have the opportunity to give money towards Taraloka. If you are able to donate, you are giving to another person who otherwise could not afford to come on retreat. And you are helping to give the gift of Taraloka to the women of the future.

We have suggested donations as these reflect the basic income needed to make a retreat viable. However, they are only suggestions. It is genuinely fine to give ten times these amounts, nothing, or anything in between.

Running on generosity is radical – thank you for being part of that.

For more information see what does it cost and a flow of generosity