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The European Buddhist Union (EBU) has issued a statement condemning the recent and ongoing violence in Myanmar. The Western Chan Fellowship CIO is a member of EBU and joins in that statement and commends it to our readers.

• http://europeanbuddhism.org/news/ebu-condemns-violence-in-myanmar/

A large group of Buddhist teachers in USA have issued a similar statement and are encouraging support for…

From 1st July 2017 Western Chan Fellowship, registered charity 1068637, is winding down its operations and passing its activities and assets to a new charity with a similar name and objects, Western Chan Fellowship CIO, registered charity number 1166162. If you have an outstanding retreat booking with Western Chan Fellowship then it has been transferred automatically to Western Chan Fellowship…

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On 28th January 2017 at an EGM of the Western Chan Fellowship the members present voted unanimously to transfer the assets and activities of Western Chan Fellowship (registered charity no. 1068637) to ‘Western Chan Fellowship Charitable Incorporated Organisation’ (registered charity no. 1166162).

‘Western Chan Fellowship CIO’ as it will be known (‘WCF CIO’ in this message’), will operate in very…

It was a fine winter’s day and I was on a work trip, travelling from the Ogmore Valley over the tops of the hills and down towards the Rhondda Valley. As I came over the top, there on the side of the road, by a small parking space, were some flowers left in shrine-like arrangement. They overlooked the village of Cwmparc. I stopped my car and got out. The wind was keen and cold. I thought the…

I had walked from Trehebert to Treorchy on a grey wet day. As I went over a railway bridge I saw a discarded loaf of sliced bread lying in the gutter, it's open and the slices are lying there soaking up the dirty water from the rain. You can just make it out, in the middle, toward the bottom of the image. I become interested in the discarded food and the people walking past it and I take some…

We were visiting Hong Kong and we went to the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau island. The monastery sits on a hill overlooking the island. There is a Buddha on top of the hill known as Tian Tan Buddha, whose hands are in the Abhaya Mudra, which symbolises protection, peace and the dispelling of fears. The Buddha is 113 feet tall and we climbed the 286 steps to reach the base around which there are…

At the beach watching two people playfully chasing each other in the sea. They are lost in their playfulness, oblivious to all around them, happily splashing each other. In taking the photograph, the nature of the exposure results in one person appearing as if a shadow. A shadow cannot leave the object that casts it and that object cannot lose its shadow. When the sun shines, there are always…

So here we are at Barry Island, a favourite place for people to go for a walk. Like most when I set out for this beach, I have no idea whether the tide will be in or out. Barry is one of those places with a very high tidal range, so when ‘in’, the sea is often squashing the beach up to the promenade wall and when it is ‘out’, it is several hundred yards away, almost stretching across to the other…

On one of our many visits to Pembrokeshire, we found that the Welsh Triathlon Championships was to begin and start at Broadhaven. I undoubtedly had a number of preconceptions about the competitors of this swimming, cycling, running race in that I was expecting a group of muscular, athletic, fit-looking young men ready to race against each other. I was surprised to discover men and women of all…