Aro Ling Cardiff

Specialties

Aro Ling Cardiff is a Buddhist centre in the heart of Whitchurch Village. Aro Ling Cardiff offers meditation, classes, courses, and occasional weekend events.

Aro is a Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition concerned with transforming our experience of everyday being. We aim to engender sincere determination and natural gallantry, cheerful courage and perceptive consideration, creativity and spaciousness.

Our teachers are not monks or nuns, but ordained Tantrikas who live quite ordinary lives. Aro teachings come to us from a lineage of enlightened women, including a female Tantric Buddha, Yeshé Tsogyel, & the visionary Lama, Aro Lingma. The Vajrayana path is suited to those who appreciate humour and seek to use their everyday circumstances as the path to realisation.

History

Established in 2013.

Interview with Ngakma Nor’dzin — February 2014

Q: In September 2013 you opened a Buddhist Centre – Aro Ling Cardiff – in Whitchurch Village, what inspired you to begin such a venture?

Ngakma Nor’dzin: I was inspired by the success of a similar venture in Bristol. The teachings of the Aro Tradition are so precious and relevant to our everyday lives that I wanted to make them available to the people of Cardiff as well.

Q: What were your hopes for the Centre when you began looking for a place?

NN: I wanted to offer a space for meditation that people would find welcoming and inspiring. It also needed to be convenient for me and easy to access.

Q: Why did you choose Whitchurch as the place for the new Centre?

NN: I have lived in Whitchurch for nearly 30 years. It is my home and an area of Cardiff that I love. Whitchurch village is a pleasant place to be and has a good feeling of local community. I felt the centre could become a real asset to the community and the village.

Meet the Manager

Nor’dzin P.

Manager

Nor’dzin Pamo is married with two grown-​up sons. She has been a Buddhist since 1980, and follows the Aro Nyingma tradition. She is ordained as a Ngakma — a practitioner of the gö-​kar chang-​lo. She is the author of two books: Relaxing into Meditation and Spacious Passion. She teaches at Aro Ling Cardiff regularly throughout the year, and also teaches public and private courses internationally. Together with her husband, Ngakpa ‘ö-​Dzin Tridral, she has responsibility for a sangha of apprentices of Aro Buddhism.