retreats, workshops and events for all levels
Special Events
Odiyana Center offers meditation classes that are open to everyone; you don’t have to be Buddhist or have any special experience or background. The classes resonate with a lot of people because they provide very practical methods for finding peace, happiness and meaning in the midst of busy modern daily life. The classes also give effective ways of helping others and dealing with many of the problems in the world today.
Sunday, November 9th | 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Odiyana KBC’s 25th Anniversary Party
Sunday, November 9 | 6:30-8pm
Potluck Dinner & Socializing
On this day, 25 years ago, Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center was officially incorporated as a non-profit organization. Since then, the Center has brought Dharma to thousands of people in Connecticut and beyond.
Everyone is welcome to come celebrate at the Center. Come (bring a dish to share) and enjoy time socializing and rejoicing in the benefit the Center has brought to our lives and the lives of others through the years.
Please sign up here with what you will bring for planning purposes.
No Registration Necessary!
No Cost
November 15, 2025, 10:30am – November 16, 2025, 12:15pm
Living A Life of Compassion – Avalokiteshvara Empowerment
Saturday, November 15th – Sunday November 16th
With Resident Teacher Matthew Stein
About the Empowerment
Buddha Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of the compassion of all enlightened beings. Through sincerely engaging in Buddha Avalokiteshvara’s brief and powerful meditation practice we can gradually awaken our compassionate Buddha nature. We can solve our own daily problems by controlling our desirous attachment, anger and ignorance, and then from this state we can bring so much extraordinary benefit to our family, our community and our world.
An empowerment is a guided tantric meditation that harnesses wisdom, imagination and the power of enlightened beings to take us to pure worlds and pure experiences. It bestows upon us special blessings that heal our mental continuum and awaken our Buddha nature.
During this special weekend event, Resident Teacher Matthew Stein will grant the blessing empowerment of Avalokiteshvara and transmission of the mantra, followed by teachings on how to integrate this practice into our daily lives.
SATURDAY SCHEDULE:
10:30 am -12:30 pm: Empowerment (Please arrive no later than 10:15am)
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Teaching 1
SUNDAY SCHEDULE:
9:30 am – 10:30 am: Meditation session
10:30 am – 11:00 am: Tea break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm: Teaching 2 (In conjunction with Sunday morning meditation class. You do not need to attend the empowerment or previous sessions to attend this session)
Cost
$60
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact the Administrative Director at admin@meditationinconnecticut.org if you need to make arrangements
For more information, contact: epc@meditationinconnecticut.org
SATURDAY SCHEDULE:
10:30 am -12:30 pm: Empowerment (Please arrive no later than 10:15am)
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Teaching 1
SUNDAY SCHEDULE:
9:30 am – 10:30 am: Meditation session
10:30 am – 11:00 am: Tea break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm: Teaching 2 (In conjunction with Sunday morning meditation class. You do not need to attend the empowerment or previous sessions to attend this session)
Cost
$60
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact the Administrative Director at admin@meditationinconnecticut.org if you need to make arrangements
For more information, contact: epc@meditationinconnecticut.org
Saturday, December 6th | 10:00 am – 12:15 pm
Digital Detox
A half-day retreat to unplug and refresh
Saturday, December 6th | 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
With Resident Teacher Matthew Stein
About the Course
Do you feel over-stimulated by the modern world and way of life? Is your phone rarely out of your hand? We all know how we feel when we have lost hours to tech-based distraction, but do we recognize that it is also draining us of energy to live with clarity and focus?
Instead of succumbing to the habitual distractions of our electronic devices, now is the time to take back control of our mind.
In this half-day retreat with Resident Teacher Matthew Stein, we will be taking time offline to learn how to limit our need for constant entertainment, reduce our distractions and come to know and love abiding in a calm peaceful state of mind. Anyone can learn to access this space of peace and contentment, even in this busy world.
No experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome!
The Teacher
Matthew has practiced and taught Kadampa Buddhism and meditation for many years under the guidance of many senior teachers of the New Kadampa Tradition.
Matthew previously lived at the Kadampa World Peace Temple in New York where he engaged in in-depth study and retreat, and recently he completed the Intensive Teacher Training Program at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre in Northern England. Matthew teaches from the heart in a clear, warm and relaxed way, that is always practical and relevant to our daily lives.
Schedule
10:00 – 11:00 am Session 1
11:00 – 11:30 am Tea break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Session 2
Cost
$25
$12 for basic members
Free for full members and benefactors
Learn more becoming a supporting member
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact the Administrative Director at admin@odiyana.org if you need to make arrangements.
An In-Person and Online Event
Held in-person at Odiyana Buddhist Center, 450 New London Turnpike, Glastonbury, CT 06033.
Live-streaming is available for Center Members. Please contact the Education Program Coordinator at epc@odiyana.org for a zoom link after you have registered for the class if you wish to attend online.
Schedule
10:00 – 11:00 am Session 1
11:00 – 11:30 am Tea break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Session 2
Cost
$25
$12 for basic members
Free for full members and benefactors
Learn more becoming a supporting member
No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact the Administrative Director at admin@odiyana.org if you need to make arrangements.
An In-Person and Online Event
Held in-person at Odiyana Buddhist Center, 450 New London Turnpike, Glastonbury, CT 06033.
Live-streaming is available for Center Members. Please contact the Education Program Coordinator at epc@odiyana.org for a zoom link after you have registered for the class if you wish to attend online.
held on the 10th and 25th of each month
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no one turned away
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