The Centre

Reception & Shop Opening Hours:

Monday to Friday: 9 to 5, Saturdays 9:30 -10:30 before the class

plus open for classes, workshops and events

on weekends and evenings - see individual events for timings.

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The NLBC is a welcoming and friendly space for you to explore Buddhist practices, for people to meditate together, and for anything that helps human well-being. You can learn about Buddhism, you can learn meditation and mindfulness, you can meet like-minded people, you can join bodywork classes.

The Centre is housed in a lovely building on the main Holloway Road with great transport links. There’s a big bookshop in the comfortable reception area, three shrine rooms, a bodywork studio, two treatment rooms, and meeting rooms.

If you start to come regularly, you will find yourself part of an open and diverse community. Some are ordained Buddhists with several decades of deep experience, others are on the Buddhist path, but many are just here to explore, and to meet people with shared values of awareness and compassion. We welcome people of any ethnicity, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation or religious affiliation to come and explore with us what the teachings of the Buddha have to offer in our modern lives.

We are an independent charity (the Nalanda Trust) led by members of the Triratna Buddhist Order, a growing Sangha of around 2,500 fully committed Buddhists, founded in London by Urgyen Sangharakshita in 1968, and associated with scores of Buddhist centres all over the world. Triratna learns from all the schools of Buddhism, integrating its approaches with the best of human culture. It is attempting to develop a spiritual tradition that can speak to us in the modern world.