Jamyang Buddhist Centre
Clyde Works, Ingram Road
Leeds
LS11 9RQ
United Kingdom
Jamyang Leeds was founded in 1996 under the spiritual direction of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Our core aims are to promote wellbeing and meditation, in line with Buddhist principles, and to preserve the Buddhist Mahayana tradition, throughout the North of England and further afield.
As well as being an active community wellbeing hub, our Centre in Holbeck, South Leeds, provides a peaceful place for meditation and a community of support for the study and practice of Buddhism and Wellbeing. We work with a number of local partners to promote wellbeing and mindfulness.
We offer weekly meditation classes, suitable for both beginners and people with meditation experience, and we run a dynamic programme of courses, talks and events. We run residential retreats three times a year and regular weekend group practice sessions, where we try to work more deeply on meditation techniques. Everyone’s welcome to attend the classes and courses in our spiritual and wellbeing programmes.
We honour the work of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and we are affiliated to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) which is part of the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
We regularly host highly respected Buddhist teachers, both lay and ordained, from the FPMT network. As a registered charity, our aim is to make events available to anyone. While the majority of our students live in Leeds, Yorkshire and the North of England, we have students who travel to us from all over the UK. We also live stream and record events that we share on our YouTube channel.
A note about our name: Jamyang is the Tibetan name for the wisdom aspect of the enlightened mind. A translation of the word is “Gentle Voice.”
Please note: This statement only covers physical access information for Jamyang Buddhist
Centre Leeds at its Clyde Works building. For more details, or for information regarding an
accessibility issue not detailed here, please email smile@jamyangleeds.co.uk or call 0113 345
2626.
Building Entrance: Access to Clyde Works is gained via a glass door onto the pavement, on the
corner of Ingram Road and Crosby Street. There is an 80 mm step from the pavement to the reception
floor. The doorbell is 930 mm from the floor and the door opens from a push button inside the building.
This push button needs to be pressed to exit the building. It is 1200 mm from the floor. The door
clearance is 800 mm.
Inside facilities: The reception is a large area level with the street and all other facilities except the
Gompa (meditation hall) are accessed down an aluminium ramp kept in reception and covering 3 steps
which height is 500 mm in total. The ramp is 720 mm wide, 1830 mm long and will take a maximum
weight of 300kg.
The ramp leads directly into the café and communal space. The main hall is immediately off the café
area, through a set of double doors with a 1440 mm clearance. The shop is also off the café area,
through a door with a 700 mm clearance. There is a suite of offices down a corridor which is three
meters wide. Door clearance to each office is 700 mm.
The Gompa is situated on the first floor of the building. It is accessed up via a staircase comprising 19
steps. Five steps which are 1000mm wide and with a tread depth of 270 mm and a height of 190mm
lead to a small landing 1005mm wide by 800mm long where a fire door with a clearance of 800mm
lead via a further 12 steps to the first floor.
WCs: All toilets are located off the café area. There are separate male and female toilets. There is a
single unisex disabled toilet. It is accessed through a single door with a clearance of 865 mm. The
door handle and lock are 1000 mm from the floor. The light switch is to the right inside the door, at a
distance of 1310 mm from the floor. The width of the bathroom is 2600 mm, and the depth is 2420
mm. The toilet seat is 570 mm from the floor. The tap is 940mm from the floor. The paper towel
dispenser is 940 mm from the floor.