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Next Friday 20 men will come out of a four-year retreat at Samye Dechen Shing, the Buddhist centre on the Ross Road, formerly known as Glenscorrodale.
They will be driven down to the Samye Ling centre at Eskdalemuir near Dumfries for a kind of debriefing and rejoin society on June 11.
On June 23 2005 the settlement of Glenscorrodale was totally closed from the outside world and has remained that way.
Resident warden Jorden lives in a caravan outside the walls and has delivered supplies to the threshold which is a doorway into the courtyard. The four-sided courtyard formation of former farm buildings comprises a workshop where the stables were, a refectory and kitchen in the old barn, a temple in the byre and two residential blocks, each with 11 bedrooms and a shower room where the house used to be.
Jorden said: ‘I will have a few months hard work doing maintenance and repairs within the centre and the next batch of men for a four-year retreat will be coming in next Spring.’
During the four years the men have woken at 4am every day and done exercises and prayers, spending up to 15 hours a day in their single rooms.
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