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Tree Planting and Working Retreat: Breaking Through into Buddhahood

From Adhisthana on Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 - 18:00

Tree Planting and Working Retreat: Breaking Through into Buddhahood

From Adhisthana on Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 - 18:00

An opportunity to support the natural environment while practising the Dharma. The programme will include a work period in the morning, free time and Dharma discussion in the afternoon, and puja and meditation each evening.

Sanghadeva and Kerianna will lead the tree planting and other woodland tasks. Ratnaghosha and Saddhanandi will lead an exploration of Bhante’s powerful 1969 lecture on Breaking Through into Buddhahood.

A perfect way to contribute to Adhisthana with your time and energy, while receiving the blessings of the Dharma on retreat.

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

From Community Highlights on Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 - 09:59

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

From Community Highlights on 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...

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Aryaloka Computer Education residential course

From Aryaloka Computer Education India on Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 - 14:30

Aryaloka Computer Education residential course

From Aryaloka Computer Education India on Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 - 14:30

Dear Friends,

If you are planning to visit India, we warmly invite you to stay with us at Aryaloka Computer Education. During your time here, you will have the opportunity to serve our students by offering English teaching lessons.

Your contribution will make a meaningful difference in their education and future careers. Even a short period of teaching can have a lifelong impact on these young learners.

We kindly request you to consider this opportunity to support and inspire our students while experiencing the warmth of...

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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,...

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Eight Ways to Wake Up — A Practical Guide to the Buddha’s Path of Liberation

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 - 15:18

Eight Ways to Wake Up — A Practical Guide to the Buddha’s Path of Liberation

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 - 15:18

Eight Ways to Wake Up — A Practical Guide to the Buddha’s Path of Liberation

Meditation, Dharma, Community — Every Sunday, 10-11:45am at Gateway Taiji in Portsmouth (875 Islington) or online on Zoom, beginning September 28.

When the world feels unstable, our sense of internal stability and community support becomes even more important.

From a Buddhist perspective, spirituality is a process of becoming kinder and less selfish, of freeing oneself from habits based in craving, hatred and ignorance. This work leads us to a deeper sense...

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Men's DharmaLife course 2026

From Adhisthana on Mon, 8 Sep, 2025 - 19:01

Men's DharmaLife course 2026

From Adhisthana on Mon, 8 Sep, 2025 - 19:01

Applications are now open for next year’s DharmaLife course for young men, which will run 8 March – 26 June 2026 at Adhisthana. Please do pass on the word and encourage interest from any young men and non-binary folk in your situation who might benefit from an intensive deep dive into the principles and practices of Triratna. It often has a life-changing effect on those who participate and benefits the local sanghas they return to. Thank you for any support you can offer.

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📘 Just Released: Reimagining Buddhism by Vishvapani

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

📘 Just Released: Reimagining Buddhism by Vishvapani

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

We’re delighted to announce the publication of Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and this Teachings, a timely new book by Vishvapani. The book’s release coincides with the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Sangharakshita (born 26 August 1925), founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order.

Reimagining Buddhism is an in-depth exploration of Sangharakshita (1925-2018), a significant figure in modern Buddhism who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhism to the West and reviving it in India.

The book provides a comprehensive account of his understanding of...

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Letter from the College of Public Preceptors- August

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 1 Aug, 2025 - 00:15

Letter from the College of Public Preceptors- August

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 1 Aug, 2025 - 00:15

This month’s letter comes from Ratnavyuha, one of the Deputy Chair’s of the College: After making initial contact at Aryaloka Retreat Centre (USA) in 1992,  Ratnavyuha moved to the UK in 1996 to join Windhorse Trading and train for ordination. After spending some years in the midst of central Triratna institutions he then moved to the Sydney Buddhist Centre in 2004 and, seven years later, to the Auckland Buddhist Centre, contributing over this time to city centre and retreat...

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108 hours of circumambulation

From Adhisthana on Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 - 15:14

108 hours of circumambulation

From Adhisthana on Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 - 15:14

Tune into our 108 hours of continual circumambulation around Sangharakshita’s burial mound. Our third year in a row, there is someone walking around constantly for the next few days. 

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Suryavana in Summer

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sat, 26 Jul, 2025 - 11:59

Suryavana in Summer

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sat, 26 Jul, 2025 - 11:59

Verde que te quiero verde: Federico Garcí­a Lorca 

Romance sonámbulo

                                                            A Gloria Giner y Fernando de los Ríos

Verde que te quiero verde.

Verde viento. Verdes ramas.

El barco sobre la mar

y el caballo en la montaña.

Con la sombra en la cintura

ella sueña en su...

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