Celebrating Guhyaloka

In the 1980s in remote south eastern Spain, three soaring eagles guided the way through a hidden mountain passage, leading to what is now known as the ‘Secret Valley’.

Following this discovery, Guhyaloka was established as a retreat centre for men’s Buddhist ordination courses and as a sanctuary for Triratna’s founder, Urgyen Sangharakshita.

Since then, more than 600 men have been ordained in the mountain valley.

Hopefully, this is only the beginning.

This very special event invites us to come together to celebrate Guhyaloka’s significance within the Triratna community, and to look ahead — to support the retreat centre through the major challenges it now faces.

As special guest speaker, Manjuvajra will reflect on his 20+ years living and working at Guhyaloka — including his time as Chair — and share what makes this place so indefinably magical. He’ll bring us right up to the present, including his role at Uttaraloka, the adjacent forest hermitage where he lives very simply for half the year.

We’ll also hear from a group of young men from the Cambridge Sangha who recently took part in a work retreat at Guhyaloka. What did they discover?

Another special guest, Jyotika from Ireland, will introduce the Guhyaloka: For the Ages campaign (Find out more info here), presenting inspiring plans to secure its future.

Whether you were ordained at Guhyaloka many years ago or are simply curious about its hidden depths, come and join friends to explore, honour, and safeguard this unique and mythical realm — so that it may remain Triratna’s principal place of ordination for men in the West and expand its activities for men for generations to come.

“Far from the roar of traffic
Far from the frantic crowd,
I feel my soul expanded

With dreams not disallowed.”

Sangharakshita, ‘Guhyaloka, July 1998’

Please make any donations to the Guhyaloka: For the Ages campaign rather than to the Cambridge Buddhist Centre.

Suitable for Mitras, GFR Mitras & Order Members to attend