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La Convention, il y a un mois déjà
En particulier du fait de mes vacances qui l’ont suivie, je n’ai pas encore pris le temps de vous parler de la récente Convention d’Europe continentale de l’Ordre bouddhiste Triratna. Ce dernier...
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Joint Triratna Communities day retreat
Croydon, Brixton, West Kent and Lewes Communities are all invited to the current home for Triratna East Surrey - Lloyd Hall, for a day retreat.The venue is situated in an area of outstanding national...
View ArticleDharmabyte: Magic Rites
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called “Magic Rites”. From the talk, “The Symbolism of Colours and Mantric Sound”, where Sangharakshita explores the rich symbolic significance of colour and sound,...
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Conscious Surrender To The Beautiful - Live Coverage All Weekend
This weekend over 400 members of the Triratna Buddhist Order will gather to share inspiration around the place of the Arts in contemporary Buddhist spiritual life. Timed as part of the celebrations to...
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The Order gathers to celebrate Bhante's 90th birthday
Around 400 members of the Order, mostly from Europe, are gathering at Adhisthana this evening, for a long weekend steeped in the arts, to celebrate Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday. Our theme is...
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Ten thousand years of Dharma practice arrive at Adhisthana
Around 370 Order members have arrived at Adhisthana this evening. The cars are lined up in the field, many tents have gone up, and we have a marquee shrine room. The Adhisthana community and a lot of...
View ArticleConscious Surrender To The Beautiful - Introduction, Dedication Ceremony and...
Lokeshvara and Parami, the International Order Convenors, lead off the weekend with a delightful introduction, the Triratna Dedication Ceremony, and the White Tara mantra chanted for Urgyen...
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The Way of Energy
Day retreat at the Buddhist Centre Croydon exploring the way of energy through bodywork such as Dao-in , Bad Duan Jin, Qi-gong and the tantric precepts.if you can’t make the day there will, hopefully,...
View ArticleThe Sangharakshita@90 Exhibition: Nine Decades
Sanghamani and Abhayanara in the Sangharakshita Library at Adhisthana in England, discussing the beautiful new exhibition to mark Sangharakshita’s life via objects from each of his nine decades.See all...
View ArticleMaitreyabandhu - What Good Are the Arts? (with Book Launch)
Maitreyabandhu has long been a champion of the Arts as a viable path of spiritual practice in the Buddhist context. And here is an unapologetic but nuanced - in many ways delightfully good humoured and...
View ArticleConscious Surrender To The Beautiful - Choral Performance
A beautiful performance (on only 2 rehearsals!) from the on-site choir as part of the weekend celebrating both the Arts in spiritual life and the 90th birthday of Urgyen Sangharakshita.See all posts...
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Sangharakshita's 90th Birthday Celebration / Boddhicha Study - Wednesday 26th...
We will be celebrating Sangharakshita’s 90th Birthday with a puja at the GBC this Wednesday. The evening begins at 6.15pm.After this, Boddhicha will lead a study on the Buddha as a teacher of Gods and...
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Music, haiku and gratitude
Yesterday’s grey morning here at Adhisthana was greatly brightened by Maitreyabandhu’s talk, “What good are the arts?”, combining his usual mixture of depth and self-deprecating hilarity and including...
View ArticleFBA Podcast: The Nature of Transformation
This week’s FBA Podcast is a tender and moving talk by Paramananda entitled “The Nature of Transformation”. Transformation is basically allowing the protective shell of self to dissipate. This shell...
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Sangharakshita's 90th Birthday Celebration - Puja / Bodhiccha Study -...
We’ll be celebrating Sangharakshita’s 90th Birthday with a puja this Wednesday, 6.15pm at the GBC.Also, Bodhiccha will be leading a study on the Buddha as a teacher of Gods and men, which will...
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Sangharakshita receives £110,000 for his 90th birthday
This afternoon at Adhisthana, during sudden and dramatic thunderous rain, Sangharakshita attended the UK and Ireland Order Weekend to mark his 90th birthday. Here he was presented with £110,000 given...
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Happy Birthday, Bhante!
This morning saw Sarvananda giving a talk entitled “Communicating the Dharma through the arts: show, don’t tell”. As with Maitreyabandhu yesterday, we were by turns laughing hysterically and delving...
View ArticleSangharakshita's Complete Works Appeal Celebration and Book Launch
At the start of this recording Parami refers to the assembled Order taking part in a Mahayana Sutra. Never was a comment more prescient as the thunder rolls in, the skies pour forth torrents of rain...
View ArticleWeek 7 - Transference of Merit and Self Surrender
We come to the end of the course and the end of the devotional sequence - Transference of Merit and Self Surrender. Here, in this last stage of the puja, we uncover the secret behind the whole...
View ArticleSarvanananda - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts: Show Don't Tell
Be prepared for the unexpected in Sarvananda's very funny - and by turns wrongfooting - personal exploration of why the Arts are vital to the development of a genuine Buddhist community. Sarvananda...
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