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BAM Online Meditations!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 16:54

BAM Online Meditations!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 16:54

For the rest of this month we’ll be conducting our usual weekly online meditation on BAM’s central themes of sustainability and caring for others. And who better to get us started than Kamalashila! :)

If you don’t know our online meditation space and schedule, head on over to Online Meditators and connect with us there.

Kamalashila is one of our most experienced meditation practitioners and teachers. Author of Buddhist Meditation: Tranquillity, Imagination & Insight, we’re very fortunate to have...

Candradasa

Meditation Tuesday for Buddhist Action Month - With Kamalashila

From Online Meditators on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 16:33

Meditation Tuesday for Buddhist Action Month - With Kamalashila

From Online Meditators on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 16:33

Kamalashila is one of our most experienced meditation practitioners and teachers. Author of Buddhist Meditation: Tranquillity, Imagination & Insight, we’re very fortunate to have him join us to lead Meditation Tuesday this week!

For the rest of this month, we’ll be exploring themes related to Buddhist Action Month (BAM!) and its central themes of sustainability and caring for others. Kamalashila will help us get started and has generously agreed to a longer session to take any...

Munisha

NewsByte 3, part 5

From Community Highlights on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 00:42

NewsByte 3, part 5

From Community Highlights on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 00:42

Part 5 of Clear Vision’s third NewsByte, rounding up news from around Triratna, covering the very moving ritual closure of windhorse:evolution (12 minutes).

Watch the full 6-story NewsByte compilation (55 minutes).

NewsByte is commissioned by Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly. Clear Vision is Triratna’s video project in Manchester UK, making Triratna video old and new available at VideoSangha.

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Munisha

Sangharakshita's diary

From Triratna News on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 00:12

Sangharakshita's diary

From Triratna News on Mon, 8 Jun, 2015 - 00:12

May 2015

Bhante’s secretary Ashavajit writes: “Here at Adhisthana, spring has truly begun. The cuckoo has been heard not just once but many times, little brilliantly-coloured wild flowers are to be seen everywhere, and Sanghadeva’s constant gardening is providing vivid splashes of colour at strategic points on the campus. The trees are dressed in myriad greens, and on the warmer days Bhante has been able to walk up and down beside the pond and even to sit in the sun.

He has been sleeping...

lokabandhu

BAM in Edinburgh: fundraising for India

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sun, 7 Jun, 2015 - 22:13

BAM in Edinburgh: fundraising for India

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sun, 7 Jun, 2015 - 22:13

BAM’s happening in Edinburgh - we’re raising funds for social and Dhamma work in India and Nepal. Four of us are here for the whole month, by going out every night knocking on people’s doors and inviting them to support Triratna’s Karuna Trust we hope to raise around £80,000 between us! That will come in over the next few years from...

Munisha

Awakening money: this week's European tour

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sun, 7 Jun, 2015 - 17:19

Awakening money: this week's European tour

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sun, 7 Jun, 2015 - 17:19

Amalavajra is a former bond dealer in the City of London, now working for Triratna and touring European Triratna Centres for Buddhist Action Month, speaking in relation to BAM’s second theme of money awareness. (Dates below.)

He has fundraised for Triratna projects, especially Karuna, since 1999 and now lives at Adhisthana. As the fundraiser on the Development Team employed by Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly, his aim is to help create a culture of greater confidence, abundance and generosity in relation to money.

He writes: “To...

Munisha

Ordinations at Akasavana

From Triratna News on Sun, 7 Jun, 2015 - 12:12

Ordinations at Akasavana

From Triratna News on Sun, 7 Jun, 2015 - 12:12

The following women were publicly ordained at Akashavana on Saturday 6th June 2015:

Public Preceptor Maitreyi
Kia Almegard becomes Vimaladhi, a Sanskrit name meaning ‘She whose Wisdom is Pure’ (long final ‘i’).
Westernised spelling: Vimaladhi
Private preceptor: Sridevi
Bente Kjønstad becomes Muditadevi, a Sanskrit name meaning ‘Goddess of sympathetic joy’ (long final ‘i’).
Westernised spelling: Muditadevi
Private preceptor: Sridevi
Su Akbar Khan becomes Sujhayini, a Pali or Sanskrit name meaning ‘She whose intent is excellent’ (long...

Centre Team

Parami - Live Web Talk June 6th!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sat, 6 Jun, 2015 - 04:33

Parami - Live Web Talk June 6th!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sat, 6 Jun, 2015 - 04:33

On Saturday as part of BAM and the Young Buddhists weekend Parami will offer a live web talk and conversation. One of the most experienced and pioneering member of the Order, Parami has helped build the Triratna Buddhist Community over the past 30+ years and has never lost touch with its radical edge! We hope as many of you can tune in at home or with your own sanghas wherever you are!

The live streaming event we’ll be happening at 5pm UK...