Bowing in welcome 🙏
We are the Bright Earth Buddhist temple, a Pure Land temple in Malvern in the UK. We offer a simple Buddhist practice which will help you to feel accepted just as you are.
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The Bright Earth temple is run by Buddhist ministers Satya (she/her) and Kaspa (they/them). We are in a team of seven Bright Earth ministers, we currently have six trainee ministers, and we offer regular Buddhist practice and book study groups here at the temple and online via Zoom.
Bright Earth emphasises an ecological approach by offering outside practice (e.g. walking meditation in the temple garden), by encouraging folk to look after our planet, and being more interested in ecology than hierarchy. We aim to be engaged with our communities and offer help where appropriate. We also want to support people to use Buddhist teachings in their everyday lives.
We have lots of resources at our main website including a short free course on nembutsu, our main Buddhist practice, and a list of the book groups currently available.
You can also view our past Buddhist practices sessions on our Youtube channel or maybe join us live on Wednesdays 7.30pm UK time or Saturdays 9.30am UK time.
Thank you for being here!
As we say here,
Namo Amida Bu.1
Kaspa, Satya & all at the Bright Earth team
‘Namo Amida Bu’ is one form of the nembutsu, which is the main spiritual practice of Pure Land Buddhists. Pure Land Buddhism is the most popular form of Buddhism in Japan. It literally means something like ‘I take refuge in or call out to the Buddha of Infinite Light’ and it is a way for us to connect with something we might not fully understand, but that is loving and wise.
