Making the temple beautiful
Bright Earth Buddhist Temple is in the heart of Malvern, and it shines a light into the town.
If you donate to this fundraiser, you'll be contributing to a complete make-over of the front of the temple, including scaffolding, re-rendering and repairing the porch, and painting the whole front including new 'Bright Earth' accent colours. It'll look smart and cared for, and no longer out of place alongside the lovely buildings on the Worcester Road. All donations will go directly to Amida Trust, the UK charity who own and support the temple and other Dharma projects in the UK and abroad. Thank you so much! Read more below...
In the nearly 7 years since the temple opened, we have welcomed many hundreds of local and not-so-local people into our shrine room for Buddhist practice. We have been a home for 39 residents, some staying for a short while and receiving what they needed, and some who have been here for the whole time. This currently includes three dogs, a cat and three bunnies. We have welcomed many volunteers to our house and garden, who tell us that they receive as much as they give. We have hosted a Pride coffee morning, vegan bake sales, mindful walks, Dharma talks, retreat days, and many an open morning (with much cake). We are also important to some who live further away and who are connected to us through our Buddhist practice and through staying in our guest room.
We hope that we have offered glimpses of an alternative way of living - one centred on living gently on the Earth, on being guided by our ethics, on simple pleasures and a warm acceptance of our all-too-human limits. We introduce people to Buddhist teachings but more importantly to a connection with the divine, however it is experienced or articulated, and a form of refuge that is more reliable than our usual refuges (buying stuff, our careers, too much TV, money, food, popularity etc).
Whether or not you have directly benefitted from the work of the temple, we hope that you will help us to care for it as it has cared for us. The condition of our frontage has deteriorated, especially during this last winter - paint is falling off and the porch is crumbling. Our donations have fallen dramatically since we haven't been able to open to the public (although we've continued offering Buddhist practice via Zoom). The work will start soon, paid from our small reserves, and so it would be great to raise the money so we can replace these reserves and so the Trust can continue to invest in Dharma projects both in Malvern and elsewhere.
We would love to restore it to tip-top condition so we can continue to make an offering to the good people of Malvern. We will continue to offer Buddhist practice here which is open to everyone, and other community events. We will use it as a supportive base for our eco-activism, including the daily vigil for the Earth Satya has been doing in town for six months. We will continue to grow the golden links between members of our community, and hopefully introduce more people to a sense of security which goes beyond worldly impermanence. We hope that we help people to feel cared for, and to care for others and for the Earth. We also hope that the good influence of the Bright Earth temple and all who practise here will continue to ripple out in a mystical way into the whole of Malvern and beyond.
The temple is run by Kaspa and Satya, who are married and who live in the temple with their two dogs, cat and bunnies. They were both Buddhist priests with the Amida Order for more than a decade before becoming independent teachers, and are now both members of the Amitabha Fellowship with other Pure Land teachers and colleagues. They are both IFS psychotherapists in private practice, and active members of XR Buddhists. Kaspa is a founding member of Eco Dharma and has run Buddhist Action Month for the past few years. He is also interested in working outside, and in embodied work. Satya is a writer - her most recent book is 'Dear Earth: Love, Grief and Activism'. You can read about her vigil at www.dearearth.com/vigil. Our colleagues Dayamay and Khema also run local events and groups including a support group and mindful walks.
You can learn more about what the temple offers here at www.brightearth.org.
Thank you!
Satya & Kaspa, temple leaders
If you donate to this fundraiser, you'll be contributing to a complete make-over of the front of the temple, including scaffolding, re-rendering and repairing the porch, and painting the whole front including new 'Bright Earth' accent colours. It'll look smart and cared for, and no longer out of place alongside the lovely buildings on the Worcester Road. All donations will go directly to Amida Trust, the UK charity who own and support the temple and other Dharma projects in the UK and abroad. Thank you so much! Read more below...
In the nearly 7 years since the temple opened, we have welcomed many hundreds of local and not-so-local people into our shrine room for Buddhist practice. We have been a home for 39 residents, some staying for a short while and receiving what they needed, and some who have been here for the whole time. This currently includes three dogs, a cat and three bunnies. We have welcomed many volunteers to our house and garden, who tell us that they receive as much as they give. We have hosted a Pride coffee morning, vegan bake sales, mindful walks, Dharma talks, retreat days, and many an open morning (with much cake). We are also important to some who live further away and who are connected to us through our Buddhist practice and through staying in our guest room.
We hope that we have offered glimpses of an alternative way of living - one centred on living gently on the Earth, on being guided by our ethics, on simple pleasures and a warm acceptance of our all-too-human limits. We introduce people to Buddhist teachings but more importantly to a connection with the divine, however it is experienced or articulated, and a form of refuge that is more reliable than our usual refuges (buying stuff, our careers, too much TV, money, food, popularity etc).
Whether or not you have directly benefitted from the work of the temple, we hope that you will help us to care for it as it has cared for us. The condition of our frontage has deteriorated, especially during this last winter - paint is falling off and the porch is crumbling. Our donations have fallen dramatically since we haven't been able to open to the public (although we've continued offering Buddhist practice via Zoom). The work will start soon, paid from our small reserves, and so it would be great to raise the money so we can replace these reserves and so the Trust can continue to invest in Dharma projects both in Malvern and elsewhere.
We would love to restore it to tip-top condition so we can continue to make an offering to the good people of Malvern. We will continue to offer Buddhist practice here which is open to everyone, and other community events. We will use it as a supportive base for our eco-activism, including the daily vigil for the Earth Satya has been doing in town for six months. We will continue to grow the golden links between members of our community, and hopefully introduce more people to a sense of security which goes beyond worldly impermanence. We hope that we help people to feel cared for, and to care for others and for the Earth. We also hope that the good influence of the Bright Earth temple and all who practise here will continue to ripple out in a mystical way into the whole of Malvern and beyond.
The temple is run by Kaspa and Satya, who are married and who live in the temple with their two dogs, cat and bunnies. They were both Buddhist priests with the Amida Order for more than a decade before becoming independent teachers, and are now both members of the Amitabha Fellowship with other Pure Land teachers and colleagues. They are both IFS psychotherapists in private practice, and active members of XR Buddhists. Kaspa is a founding member of Eco Dharma and has run Buddhist Action Month for the past few years. He is also interested in working outside, and in embodied work. Satya is a writer - her most recent book is 'Dear Earth: Love, Grief and Activism'. You can read about her vigil at www.dearearth.com/vigil. Our colleagues Dayamay and Khema also run local events and groups including a support group and mindful walks.
You can learn more about what the temple offers here at www.brightearth.org.
Thank you!
Satya & Kaspa, temple leaders
Organizer
Satya Robyn
Organizer
England
Amida Trust
Registered nonprofit
Donations eligible for Gift Aid.
