Resignation of Shridaya

Dear Order Members,

Dharmacharini Shridaya, associated with Stockholm, Sweden, has written to her private preceptor, Sridevi, expressing her wish to resign from the Order, and as Shridaya’s public preceptor I have accepted her resignation. Both Sridevi and I have been in contact with Shridaya, and wish her well.

Shridaya was ordained at Akashavana in 2013, and has lived and worked in both Dharmagiri and Akashavana retreat centres, where her help was much appreciated. She...

Update on Sambhara's Health

Dear Brothers & Sisters in the Dharma,

I am very sorry to be letting you know that Sambhara is at present in West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, with the expectation that he will move from there into residential care when we find somewhere appropriate.

The background to this is that in June 2017 Sambhara was given a diagnosis of mixed dementia (Alzheimers and vascular dementia). This did not come as a great shock because he had attended a memory clinic in...

Ordination at Dharmadhara, USA

Dear Order Members,

I am happy to announce the public ordination of ex-Dan Roberts from the Seattle Sangha at the Dharmadhara Retreat Center on 15th May, 2019.

Dan becomes Karunashanti.  His new name means “He whose peace is through or from compassion.”

Shantinayaka was Private Preceptor and Viradhamma was Public Preceptor.

With Metta,

Viradhamma

The Death of Maitreya

Dear Order members,

We are sad to let you know that Dharmachari Maitreya has died at the age of 73. He was ordained by Bhante in 1975, the third Finnish person to join the Order.

After serious troubles within the Order in Finland during the 1980s, Maitreya thought it best to go his own way establishing two retreat centres in the Finnish countryside, initially guided by Tibetan teachers. He was also a student of Dudjom...