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Fields of Creativity

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

Fields of Creativity

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

The final Unseen Sangharakshita video talk has just been released by the Triratna Video Library

Over the past twelve months the Triratna Video Library has celebrated Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with the video releases of twelve talks by Sangharakshita which have never edited or seen. Each talk has been presented with English subtitles and some with additional Spanish subtitles. These talks covering various topics, locations and years have hopefully enriched your connection with, and appreciation of, Bhante as well as...

Vishvapani

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Vishvapani in the recent edition of Tricycle:

Alfoxton Park in Somerset, southwest England, sits halfway up a long incline that rises from the Bristol Channel to the Quantock Hills. The main house, built in a neoclassical style in 1710, could be home to a Jane Austen heroine. But look more closely and you see crumbling plasterwork, decaying windows, and a tumbledown roof. I’ve come to know Alfoxton since 2020, when it became home to a community of Buddhists from the
...

Candradasa

A Golden Thread

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

A Golden Thread

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

This is the eleventh talk to be produced and released by the Triratna Video Library this year as the 100th birth anniversary celebrations continue.

Sangharakshita visited the Edinburgh FWBO (Triratna) Buddhist Centre in September 2007 as his book ‘Precious Teachers’ was published. He offered this special talk, in which he chose to focus on his friend and teacher, Dhardo Rinpoche.

He invited the audience to picture the unlikely friendship of two young men, one a Tibetan tulku and the other an English bhikkhu,...

Maitreyabandhu

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

This event is open to everyone, so do invite your sangha friends to come along!

🖥️ Connect on Zoom

Dear friend,

Many of us in the College have been concerned about the lack of young people involved in our movement and entering the Order. Certainly, when I got started going to the London Buddhist Centre in the 1980s, pretty much everyone was young: the Chair was 35 and, like most people getting involved at that...

Centre Team

The Tension Between the Practical and Academic Approach to Buddhism

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 - 21:39

The Tension Between the Practical and Academic Approach to Buddhism

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 - 21:39

🖥️ WATCH THE TENSION BETWEEN THE PRACTICAL AND ACADEMIC APPROACH TO BUDDHISM

The Triratna Video Library is back celebrating Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with another freshly edited never-before-seen talk by Bhante from the archive. This month’s rich and rewarding talk was given at the Kraków, Poland in 2002.

With a keen appreciation of his audience at the Kraków University Institute for Religious Studies, Poland, Sangharakshita presents a rich survey of the...

akasajoti

A Unique Opportunity – Tiratanaloka is for Sale! (£1.1m)

Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 - 09:59

A Unique Opportunity – Tiratanaloka is for Sale! (£1.1m)

Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 - 09:59

For more than 30 years, Tiratanaloka has been at the heart of women’s ordination training. Now, as we get ready to move to a much bigger home, our current building is for sale.

The building itself holds great potential: 22 bedrooms, a beautiful central shrine room, a wrap-around lounge and conservatory, generous community spaces including a purpose-built second shrine room, and 1.7 acres of land. Heated by a modern biomass system and unlisted it is ready to be adapted, reimagined, and filled with new life.

There is...

Viryabodhi

Forum för klimat och miljö

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 - 15:20

Forum för klimat och miljö (group)

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 - 15:20

I samverkan mellan den norska och svenska Triratna-sanghan startade vi i september 2025 ett forum för samtal och reflektioner kring EkoDharma.

Funderar du på hur Dharma och buddhistisk praktik kan hjälpa dig att hitta lämpliga sätt att bemöta de utmaningar som klimat- och miljökrisen ställer oss inför? Och hur buddhistisk etik kan vägleda dig till att bidra till en positiv förändring? Då är du välkommen att delta i vårt nya EkoDharma forum. Vi börjar med att ha digitala möten som genomförs en...

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hallykelly

Science and Subjectivity Retreat

From Adhisthana on Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 - 11:09

Science and Subjectivity Retreat

From Adhisthana on Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 - 11:09

Science makes sense of the objective world, including the human brain and nervous system. But what of private inner experiences – subjectivity? Can you be objective about that?

This seminar is for order members with a scientific background or an interest in science. We’ll have presentations from Munissara, Jnanadasa, Vaddhaka, and perhaps others; all have thought deeply about subjectivity from both Buddhist and scientific angles.

Munissara, a psychiatrist, explains methods for exploring the mind, which can even assess deep psychology and degrees of insight. Jnanadasa,...

Candradasa

Entering the Sangha

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:38

Entering the Sangha

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:38

The Triratna Video Library is back celebrating Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with another freshly edited never-before-seen talk by Bhante from the archive. This month join Sangharakshita in a Buddhafield Festival tent for his talk ‘Entering The Sangha’.

In the summer of 2007, Sangharakshita visited the Triratna project known as ‘Buddhafield’, during which he offered this talk.

He considers the Buddha’s explanation of his Dharma-Vinaya with particular reference to his teaching on freedom. Looking both to his experiences in the West and India, he describes...

dayaketu

A Victorious Life: Retreat for Fathers

Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:37

https://vimeo.com/1115475511?share=copy#t=0

A Victorious Life: Retreat for Fathers

Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:37

A Victorious Life: Retreat for Fathers
Led by Saddhaloka, Ratnaghosha + the Triratna Fathers team

At Adhisthana
Start date: 17th Oct 2025
End date: 20th Oct 2025

Studying the Sigalovada Sutta and Sangharakshita’s ‘Being a Buddhist Parent’, we’ll explore what it means to go for refuge to the Three Jewels as a father, with all the demands that life places upon us.
How do we deepen our practice, understanding and friendships to make this a victorious life?

For: Order Members and Mitras – Men