What is Edinburgh Buddhist Centre Sangha?

What is this word Sangha? Good question. Officially, it's a Buddhist group, the practising Buddhist community of spiritual aspirants. But for us, in addition, it's all friends of EBC too!

Ananda, the Buddha’s friend and personal assistant, once said to the Buddha that half the spiritual life consists of kalyana mitrata, spiritual friendship, or friendship with what is lovely. The Buddha replies, ‘Say not so Ananda. Say not so. It is the whole, not the half of the spiritual life.’