A report by the Bodhiyoga team on their first year’s activities. Bodhiyoga are a new Triratna venture offering yoga teacher training based upon Buddhist mindfulness principles. Find them at www.bodhiyoga.es
From Triratna News on Thu, 6 Dec, 2012 - 09:40A major new book by Sangharakshita has just been published, bringing together many of his most significant teachings on meditation. The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation is a substantial compilation of teachings on meditation and suggestions for its successful practice – some drawn from previously published works, and many extracted from previously unpublished seminar transcripts. They reveal how Sangharakshita learned the practices on which his system of meditation – ‘an organic, living system’ – is based, and...
From Triratna Ghent on Wed, 5 Dec, 2012 - 19:49On Sunday several people gathered to make 50 new meditation mats for our centre. It was a day of working together, laughing together, eating together, talking, building sangha! Meet the Ghent Sewing Team!
From Karuna Fundraisers on Wed, 5 Dec, 2012 - 12:47Only 55-65% of children in the villages of Sangamner, Maharashtra, India are attending school. The root of the problem is poverty, where in Maharashtra, 27 million people live on less than 80p a day. Poor and uneducated parents do not always recognise the value in children, especially girls, attending school. Instead children are often kept away from school to bring extra income into the household through scavenging, or following their parents into work.
Welcome to the Thai Translation space on thebuddhistcentre.com. Click here for our first three translations in Thai: Triratna’s Dedication Ceremony, Threefold Puja, and Refuges and Precepts. Many thanks to Subhamati and Pin Virasilp for providing them.
Here’s the next of a series of Welsh translations of key ceremonies used in the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community - the Sevenfold Puja in all its glory!. It’s part of a wider Triratna Translation project which aims to translate a few of our core texts into as many of the world’s languages as possible. You’ll find it at thebuddhistcentre.com/translations. If you’d like to contribute in any way please contact us on translations [at] ...
From Western Buddhist Review on Mon, 3 Dec, 2012 - 18:47I’m delighted to launch Vol.6 of the Western Buddhist Review, with a long article by Jayarava on the theme of the Spiral Path. Jayarava was ordained in 2005, and is an independent researcher based in Cambridge. His articles have appeared in the Western Buddhist Review, as well as the Journal of Buddhist Ethics. He is author of Visible Mantra, and Nāmapada: a Guide to names in the Triratna Buddhist Order.
Abstract This article surveys the Spiral Path or Lokuttara...
From Triratna News on Mon, 3 Dec, 2012 - 06:15Lynne Beckley from Triratna’s Ipswich Buddhist Centre writes with news of probably the first-ever anthology of a Triratna artist - the amazing Aloka, whose giant paintings grace the central shrines of many of Triratna’s Buddhist Centres in the UK and beyond - and whose smaller works, painted by commission, adorn the shrines of many members of the Order. The handsome hardback book, simply named ‘Buddhist Paintings by Aloka’, contains 100 gorgeous pages of full-colour reproductions, many never...
