Welcome to Mahasiddha Buddhist Centre in Rome. We would like to invite you to join us in our upcoming events.

Buddhism has a timeless and universal relevance, and can be practiced by anyone in any culture, regardless of race, gender, or age.

Through training in meditation and other Buddhist practices you can improve the quality of your life by developing inner peace, love, and wisdom.

Cultivating a way of life based on love, compassion and wisdom brings true meaning to our very busy and somewhat problematic modern lifestyle.

Buddha taught that the way to find true happiness is to seek it within our own mind. Through meditation we can reduce and finally abandon negative states of mind such as anger, craving and ignorance, and in their place cultivate positive, virtuous states of mind, such as love, contentment and wisdom.

By training in meditation our mind will become calm and peaceful, free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience real happiness. Eventually, we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.

“Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external conditions."

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso