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Wisdom Online

Sun, 11 Feb, 2024 - 09:33

Wisdom Online

Sun, 11 Feb, 2024 - 09:33

From 4 March - 22 April we are running an online course on the Heart Sutra for Order Members. Each week you will receive videos via email, and there will be two live sessions with Vessantara, 25 March and 22 April.

You can register for this course here.

We are also holding a retreat on the Diamond Sutra at Adhisthana 24 April - 3 May - available in person and online. More information here.

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Freed from the Burning House

Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

Freed from the Burning House

Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

It can effect your dream life, it can effect your meditation, it can effect your life. If you really enter into the imaginative, dream world of the Lotus Sutra, it starts to affect how you experience the world around you.

Ratnaghosha on the White Lotus Sutra.

A practice-focused retreat at Adhisthana, available in person and online.

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Insight and Imagination: Meditating on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa

Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 - 10:30

Insight and Imagination: Meditating on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa

Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 - 10:30

On this retreat Vessantara will guide us through practices that will penetrate to the the wisdom at the heart of this text. Through symbols and imagery we will bring about a mystic marriage of insight and imagination.

So, how do you practise a Mahayana sutra? Can you take it deep into your being, so that it’s vision affects your whole life?

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Young Women+ Dharma Life Course

Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:14

Young Women+ Dharma Life Course

Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:14

The next Dharma Life course at Adhisthana will run 11 March – 28 June 2024.

A four-month residential course providing you with an opportunity to live an intensive dharma life: living, practising, studying, and working together within the context of Adhisthana. 

Over 16 weeks you’ll receive a grounding in the principles and practice of Triratna Buddhism through retreats, study with experienced teachers and communal living. You’ll also participate in the life of the wider Adhisthana sangha: meditating together, performing ritual, developing kalyana mitrata and joining...

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An invitation to join in 108 hours of circumambulation

Fri, 31 Mar, 2023 - 15:18

An invitation to join in 108 hours of circumambulation

Fri, 31 Mar, 2023 - 15:18

We’re excited to announce a special event happening at Adhisthana from the 18th to the 23rd of June that we’d like to invite you to participate in.

For 108 hours, a group of individuals will circumambulating around Sangharakshita’s burial mound. We would be honored if you would join us. It would be wonderful to have as many of us as possible participate in circumambulating for an hour each over this period.

The circumambulation is part of the Pilgrims Week, which is open...

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Opening: Summoning the World to Buddhahood

Fri, 17 Mar, 2023 - 21:54

Opening: Summoning the World to Buddhahood

Fri, 17 Mar, 2023 - 21:54

This week at Adhisthana we are holding a retreat on the Bodhicaryavatara: Summoning the World to Buddhahood.

Vidyamala will be sharing stories from the retreat throughout the week here, and I hope this can be a way of connecting with each other and with the beautiful aspirations behind Santideva’s work, no matter where you currently are.

I look forward to sharing in an exploration of the Bodhicaryavatara together, allowing the beauty, power, and challenge of the verses to more deeply inform our practice for the benefit...

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Summoning the World to Buddhahood: Bodhicaryāvatāra

Thu, 29 Dec, 2022 - 12:18

Summoning the World to Buddhahood: Bodhicaryāvatāra

Thu, 29 Dec, 2022 - 12:18

Evocative and uncompromising, poetic and personal, the Bodhicharyavatara is a foundational text for the Mahayana and in Triratna; calling forth each of us to place our hearts more fully upon our most cherished ideals.

Allow the beauty, power, and challenge of the verses to more deeply inform our practice, and enter an immersive retreat with a team who have dedicated their lives to the ideals enshrined within this text.

A retreat for Order Members

17-24 March | Residential + Online

More information here.

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Anniversary of Sangharakshita's Funeral

Wed, 9 Nov, 2022 - 11:32

Anniversary of Sangharakshita's Funeral

Wed, 9 Nov, 2022 - 11:32

A special event from the College of Public Preceptors Meeting held at Adhisthana remembering the funeral of Sangharakshita who died in 2018.

The evening will run from 7.30-9pm UK time and have echos of the funeral, led by Parami.

There will be elements of ritual and readings of extracts from Nagabodhi’s forthcoming book about Bhante and Maitreyabandhu’s Canto - a long-form poem dedicated to Sangharakshita.

You can join the livestream here.

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Invitation to an online event commemorating Sangharakshita

Fri, 28 Oct, 2022 - 17:02

Invitation to an online event commemorating Sangharakshita

Fri, 28 Oct, 2022 - 17:02

We would like to invite you to join us online on 30 October in remembering and celebrating Sangharakshita’s life and teachings on the 4th anniversary of his death.

PROGRAMME

19.20 Welcome

19.30 Reflections on Bhante: Talk by Ratnavyuha

Followed by a ritual: Chanting and readings

For international timings, see here.

Zoom link

We look forward to having you join us!