Ratnavyuha and Geoff Walker

Both long term meditators and experienced teachers at the Auckland Buddhist Centre.

Ratnavyuha has been actively involved with the Triratna Buddhist community since 1992. His first contact was through Aryaloka Retreat Centre just north of Boston, MA. In 1996 he went to Windhorse Trading (a Buddhist right livelihood in Cambridge, UK) to train for ordination. In 2004, about five years after being ordained, he started working as the Sydney Buddhist Centre in Australia. More recently, in 2011, he moved to New Zealand to work at the Auckland Buddhist Centre and Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre.

Since being ordained in 1999, Ratnavyuha has led many courses, classes, and retreats both in this region and abroad. As a senior member of the Triratna Buddhist Order, he is part of a team responsible for the men's ordination training process in New Zealand and Australia and involved with the running of both the Auckland Buddhist Centre and Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre.

Geoff first came to the Auckland Buddhist Centre nearly two decades ago to learn Buddhist meditation after travelling in India, and immediately realised that he had found his spiritual home in the Dharma. Since then, daily meditation remains a strong feature of Geoff’s Buddhist practice. Over the years he has attended many classes, study groups and retreats, teaches meditation classes at the ABC and is training for ordination within the Triratna Buddhist Community.