There are two principal forms of Buddhism, the Śrāvakayāna and the Bodhisattvayāna, otherwise known as the Hīnayāna and the Mahāyāna. The Mahāyāna has two divisions, the Pāramitāyāna and the Mantrayāna. The Pāramitāyāna consists in the practice of the six pāramitās over a huge number of successive lives and for an inconceivable period of time. Its goal is Supreme Perfect Enlightenment. The follower of the Mantrayāna, also known as the Vajrayāna, may practise the pāramitās and even...
This is to let you know that Prakasha is unwell in hospital.
He returned home early from a solitary retreat in Guhyaloka, Spain, suffering from severe food poisoning after eating a mushroom. While normally familiar with the safe mushrooms, from his time of living out at Guhyaloka, this unfortunately turned out to be poisonous.
He is being treated for renal (kidney) failure, and is currently in a stable condition. While tired, he is well in himself. He is not out of the woods...
On 21st Oct 2018 Dh. Amoghmuni family visited retreat center. It was good to be around Dh. Ratnavajra, Dh. Shakyavansh, Tushar, Abhijit and their family.
Public Ordination Ceremony Urgyen Sangharakshita Meditation and Retreat Centre(USMC), Nanded, Maharastra, India Date 14th October, 2018
This 14th October marks the 62 Anniversary of the Mass conversion Led by Dr. Ambedkar. The Public ordination of 34 men were organized to commemorate this historic event which led the foundation for the Buddhist movement in India. The day after the Mass conversion Dr. Ambedkar gave a speech on 15th October which emphasizes the importance of...
Bhikkhu Anālayo has garnered a distinguished reputation as an authoritative scholar of the Pali Canon and early Buddhism. His mastery not only of Pāli sources but also of parallels in Chinese translation has enabled him to produce a growing corpus of...
In a special ritual on Monday 9th March 2018 Suryagupta became the new Chair of the London Buddhist Centre - one of Triratna’s oldest and largest urban Buddhist Centres, outside of India. Suryagupta is the first woman to become a chair of the LBC. Furthermore, as a mother and a woman of African Caribbean heritage, she brings a breadth of experience to this important role in the Triratna Buddhist Community.
In a customary gesture in books like this one, [1] Jan Westerhoff asks in his introduction what the purpose might be in his writing another history of Buddhist philosophy, given that those already available were written by such eminent scholars. In this case, the eminent scholars are Volker Zotz (writing in...
I’m men’s Mitra Convenor in Nottingham, very actively involved with the Venezuelan Sangha and exploring William Blake’s legacy…
Aryavacin
…and I fell in love with the Order. Manjugita
Track titles in English 01 Manjugita reading one of her poems ‘The Mirror’ (El Espejo) - the metaphors she delights in 02 Our ordinations – the impact on Sangha in Mexico and on Venezuelans 03 Our Order names – the meaning given at ordination, how we responded at the...
Our online meditations will be resuming on Tuesday 13th November at 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 9.30pm IST / 11am EST / 8.00am PST- hopefully you can join us!
For a series of six Tuesdays we will be looking at how we can go deeper in meditation. Starting with the practices of the Mindfulness of Breathing and the Metta Bhavana we will be exploring how we can work with hindrances that arise and become more absorbed - and,...
