Events
These events are open for registration:
The XIII Global Conference on Buddhism
Saturday and Sunday 7-8th of November 2026 in Poland. More information.
News
Latest news from DNBF – these news can be sent to you by email:
Anukampa's Growing Role as a Sanctuary for Deep Practice, Inner Peace, and Wisdom 24:50
Norwegian Ajahn Brahmali teaches four focuses for attention 28th and 29th of June 2025
Upcoming event
We are working on these events – more info and registration later:
Anukampa visits and teachingMay 22-26, 2025 | Anukampa Grove, Oxford, UK | Retreat and online
7-day retreat Lammi6 – 15 June 2025 | Lammi, Finland | Meditation, guiding, mentoring, Q&A
7-days residential retreat StockholmOctober 2025 | Outside of Stockholm, Sweden | Meditation, guiding, mentoring, Q/A
Weekend PolandNovember 2025 | Lodz, Poland | Meditation, guiding, guidance, questions/answers
Volunteering
Do you have time and expertise to help the society a little forward?
Podcast volunteering
The society is constantly creating new teaching that we want to publish on podcasts. We are looking for someone who has some time to edit recordings of teaching, and publish these on our three podcasts.
New logo for DNBF
For several years, DNBF has used two different logos - one on its website, and one on Facebook and Instagram. Is there anyone who can help create a new logo, which fits both the website, Facebook, Instagram?
Footpath
See all our footprints on this page. Here are the last five:
Imprisoned
It was a captivating weekend in Arendal - both instructor and retreat leader had long been wanted, and after prisoner numbers were assigned, they had to endure isolation - at least two days.
Annual report 2024
DNBF annual report for 2024 - activities, future, chair's report, spiritual leader's report and accounts.
7 days at Troset
Troset outside Trondheim could offer everything this week in February 2025 - peace and quiet, beautiful nature, great weather, northern lights and a sparkling starry sky - as well as many who managed to expand their comfort zone on the way to a beautiful mind.
Deeper meditation Stockholm
The Eightfold Path, and hindrances in meditation was the theme in Stockholm February 2025.
Samadhi and sauna
It seems like every center in Finland has a sauna, including retreat centers - and often combined with ice bathing. This was also the case at Friendship Inn.
The four inspiring places in India
Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Kusinara are four places in India for inspiration and motivation, and in 2024 DNBF made its first trip to India.
First bhikkhuni in Thailand
Prior to the pilgrimage to India, we visited the first woman in Thailand to be fully ordained as a bhikkhuni in modern times.
Articles
Silence, meditation and yoga. A number of experts are urging the authorities to include these subjects in school to counteract stress in many children. And in Sweden, they’re already at it.
Many of us avoid silence because we don’t want to be in touch with our own thoughts and feelings. But silence is more important than we might think.
The brain needs silence. It needs time without music, mobile, podcasts and YouTube. Time without meetings and people. The brain likes it when you’re bored. That you don’t do anything.
The Anukampa Project – England
Venerable Canda has established a new society in England, focusing on early Buddhism and equal opportunities for women and men. Find her on The Anukampa Project website, and listen to the BBC report on this website.
We try to find and connect the best resources available, and create an arena for development and wisdom.
Spiritual Advisor
Ajahn Brahm, Spiritual Director of BSWA in Australia, as well as mentor and friend of Ajahn Nitho, has now been given the role of Spiritual Adviser for our society. He has taken on this role in order to help the committee moving forward with projects we want to realize in Norway.
DNBF podcast
When the society produces high-quality teaching, we publish these on podcasts so that as many people as possible can benefit from the teaching. We have grouped the teaching into three different podcasts. These are bilingual podcasts, where some episodes are in Norwegian and some in English.
Buying Property for Retreat Centre
The society is looking for property around Oslo, which is suitable for a future retreat centre. We are looking for those who want to sell a property, and people who can give us a lead, advice or help. Read more about the property we are looking for on this info page.
Books
For more than 2,500 years, Buddhism has inspired people to develop profound wisdom about their own nature through a training of the mind. The goal is a mind that is light, free, energetic and present – free from heavy emotions and thoughts. So the focus is development of human qualities – not an all-powerful creator.
Such a quality of life is the result of a spiritual awakening taught by Buddha, with the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path at its core.
And those who pick up this training start corresponding development, gradually and over a longer period of time, and get results according to their own efforts and starting point.
But Buddhism is profound, complex, challenging and with a long time horizon.
Good and inspiring books are important for this training, and we have made a small overview that can help you along the way!
