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Sharing to the Remembrance Page

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 13:18

Sharing to the Remembrance Page

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 13:18

If you would like to share your memories of Sangharakshita, or your response to his passing, you can choose + post something above and your contribution will be shared on the remembrance page. We’ll keep them here as an archive too. 

You can add video, favourite talks by Sangharakshita, photos or other media that communicates your thoughts and feelings.

Your post should appear shortly after you send it to us.

Read Sangharakshita’s obituary

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Urgyen Sangharakshita 1925-2018

From Triratna News on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 11:27

Urgyen Sangharakshita 1925-2018

From Triratna News on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 11:27

With great sadness we inform you of the passing away of Urgyen Sangharakshita, today, 30th October 2018, at approximately 10 am in Hereford Hospital. He had been diagnosed with pneumonia and this morning the consultant said that he also had sepsis, from which recovery was not possible. 

Please join with us as we direct our metta towards Bhante, recollecting his wonderful qualities and remembering with gratitude all that he has given to so many of us. Local Centres around the...

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Book Of Gratitude

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 10:27

Book Of Gratitude

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 10:27

As well as having this online memorial space we would like to invite people from all around the world to contribute to a Book of Gratitude.

We will be collecting pages sent to us by post at Adhisthana, or sent orderoffice [at] triratnaorder.org (by email), or uploaded to this space to be printed out by us. These will then be collated and bound into book form and kept in the Sangharakshita library at Adhisthana.

This is an opportunity to remember Sangharakshita and to...

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A Skilful Christmas

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 01:38

A Skilful Christmas

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 30 Oct, 2018 - 01:38


I don’t know how you experience Christmas present sourcing but it throws up a challenge and dilemma for me. I want to be generous and engage with the communal spirit of Christmas but I resent spending money on junk. I’ve had years where I’ve actually felt a bit sickened by the hammering my credit card’s taken in order to truck home bagfuls of ….. um …. well ….. crap.

So! Here’s an opportunity for us all...

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How Do We Have the Difficult Conversations?

From Adhisthana Kula on Sat, 27 Oct, 2018 - 20:22

How Do We Have the Difficult Conversations?
Building reconciliation and a sustainable basis of trust for Triratna

We want to update everybody who has been following the work of the Adhisthana Kula. (See endnote 1.) This post will mainly focus on our considerations and conclusions as to whether some form of external independent inquiry was needed to look into difficult aspects of Triratna’s past and culture.

Our wish is that the debates that were reignited following a BBC local tv report in...

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An Update On Restorative Process In Triratna (October 2018)

From Adhisthana Kula on Sat, 27 Oct, 2018 - 20:20

This is a report on the Restorative work undertaken over the last year within Triratna, which was introduced in the Adhisthana kula’s posts of 13th April and 15th June 2017, entitled “A Reconciliation process” and “Why Restorative approach?”

Read “A Reconciliation process”

Read “Why Restorative approach?”

Listen to our podcast on Restorative Process in Triratna

In 2017 Triratna’s Adhisthana kula undertook to:

  1. Offer training in ‘Restorative’ practice within Triratna, as part of a process of learning to go deeper with
  2. ...
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5 Years of the Buddhist Centre Online: #10 Revived Indian Buddhism

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 25 Oct, 2018 - 22:53

5 Years of the Buddhist Centre Online: #10 Revived Indian Buddhism

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 25 Oct, 2018 - 22:53

“The greatest thing the Buddha has done is to tell the world that the world cannot be reformed except by the reformation of the mind of man and the mind of the world.” - Dr Ambedkar

Around the seventh century BCE Buddhism began to go into decline in India, the land of its birth. It was only in the late nineteenth century that it began to be revived: firstly, through the work of institutions such as the Maha Bodhi Society, which was...

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Ratnadharini and Shantigarbha on Restorative Process in Triratna

From Adhisthana Kula on Wed, 24 Oct, 2018 - 20:59

Ratnadharini and Shantigarbha give an excellent, practical introduction to using the Restorative Process in order to resolve disharmony within Triratna. Exploring its principles and its methodology, this short talk also provides a helpful overview of why the Restorative approach is considered such a good fit for a Buddhist community.

Recorded in India, spring 2018.

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50 Years, 50 Voices: Vijaya (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Wed, 24 Oct, 2018 - 20:21

Who I am? I am just a little part of this process which is coming from the Buddha. … Disciple of disciple of disciple… Bhante ordained Srimala, Srimala ordained me… I am ordaining other people. I am just part of that process.

Vijaya

Vijaya’s Annals

In 1968 I was born in Nagpur.

In 1978 I was ten years old and called Indu Gajbhiye. I was studying in primary school. We all were six brothers and sisters living with father and mother in a...

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50 Years, 50 Voices: Prasadacarin (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Wed, 24 Oct, 2018 - 19:52

It was quite mindblowing that people were actually trying to practice…


Prasadacarin

Prasadacarin’s Annals

In 1968 my Serbian grandparents had been in Sweden a year and my mother was born. My father was two years old and was still living in Denmark. 

In 1978 my mother was ten and my father twelve, and they were now living in the same suburb north of Stockholm.

In 1988 my parents were in a relationship and living together. They got married and were waiting for...

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