Tempio Buddhista Samantha Bhrada

In India more than 2500 years ago, the young prince Siddartha, shocked by the spectacle of suffering, renounces the splendours of his father's palace and treads the path that will lead him beyond suffering and to the acquisition of all virtue. He thus became the Buddha (the Awakened One) moved by Great Compassion and began to teach the methods to discover the nature of the mind, eliminate negative aspects and finally reach a state of complete enlightenment. The Buddha's teachings spread widely throughout the East, reached the plateau of Tibet around 650 B.C. and took deep root there. The Buddhism of Tibet had a long period of flourishing until the tragedy of the Chinese invasion that began a systematic destruction of all forms of religious expression and forced thousands of people, including the Dalai Lama, into a forced exodus. It was from those tragic days that a new phase began for Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition: that of the encounter with the West.
The Institute organises courses and teachings, also by Masters of other Buddhist traditions, and is open to interfaith meetings to promote peace and peaceful coexistence between peoples. The Samantabhadra Institute also aims to act as an ‘Institute of Tibetan Culture’ to preserve and hand down the original aspects of Tibet's millenary culture in their entirety. In fact, Tibetan language courses, yoga, meditations, music, conferences, exhibitions, events, and educational interventions are organised on the premises or in external locations, in collaboration with public and private institutions and cultural associations.
Founding member of the UBI (Italian Buddhist Union). The centre is non-profit and is supported solely by donations and membership fees.
The Samantabhadra Institute, in line with the teachings of H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama, has never practised or promoted the negative spirit Dorje Shugden.