Buddhist Centre Opens In Brynmawr

April 9, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: South Wales Argus

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8012651.Buddist_centre_opens_in_Brynmawr/

A man is opening a Buddhist centre in Brynmawr because he says the Welsh town it is similar to Tibet.

John Beard, 60, chairman of the Sherabling Foundation UK, is transforming the Calvary Chapel into the Palpung Changchub Dargye Ling, due to what he calls “high demand” in the community for such centres.

The foundation bought the disused baptist chapel as congregations dwindled and it became too costly to run.

Calvary Chapel is an evangelical association of Christian churches and Brynmawr became a site for worship in the 19th century to meet the spiritual needs of English speakers, who had moved to the area as it industrialised.