Tejananda
Tejananda has been practising meditation and dharma since the mid-70s. He was ordained by Sangharakshita in 1980 after which he participated in the setting-up of the FWBO Bristol centre and was centre chair for six years. After several years working for the Karuna Trust in Oxford, he joined the team at Vajraloka in 1995. His book,’The Buddhist Path to Awakening’ was published by Windhorse around that time.
Since then he has been leading and supporting retreats at Vajraloka and at other retreat centres in the UK and worldwide. Although no longer living at Vajraloka, he remains part of the wider Vajraloka mandala and is deeply committed to Vajraloka’s long-standing objective of helping create conditions for people to take their dharma and meditation practice deeper.
Tejananda’s website www.tejananda.net lists all of his forthcoming retreats, including online retreats for the Buddhist Centre Online and ones that he is running himself.
Events with Tejananda
Dhyana Through the Body - reevaluating dhyanaNovember 27 - December 4, 2026
“Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states… one suffuses, fills, and permeates one’s entire body with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion, so that there is no part of one’s whole body that is not pervaded by it.” AN 5.28 On this retreat, we’ll be offering embodied approaches to dhyana (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches, and a good deal of what the tradition has to say about dhyana. Dhyana is far more than samatha, or mental calm. Recognising the liberative potential of…