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Buddha and fruit bowl at Buddhist Retreat Centre

Africa TravelMarch 3, 2026

Retreating to flavour and mindfulness

The Buddhist Retreat Center a couple of hours by car from Durban in rural South Africa is a haven of tranquility and beauty where mindfulness and kitchen magic connect in a vast, poverty-stricken, harshly beautiful landscape.

BuddhismDecember 9, 2013

Buddhist Retreat Center on CNN top 10 list

The Buddhist Retreat Center in rural Ixopo, South Africa, has been named by CNN as one of the world’s Top 10 meditation retreat centers. Those who know the BRC, which opened in 1980 and attracts mindfulness enthusiasts from around South African and internationally, are not surprised.

BuddhismApril 13, 2013

Zen and The Art of Sheep Farming

Human Rights lawyer, sheep farmer and Zen Buddhist — Antony Osler is not your average Karoo inhabitant. Story and pictures by Wanda Hennig First published […]

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