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The Taste of Freedom: 6-week course

From West London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 22 May, 2025 - 10:12
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The Taste of Freedom: 6-week course

From West London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 22 May, 2025 - 10:12

What does freedom taste like for you?

The point of being a Buddhist is to free ourselves from whatever keeps us trapped in a mundane and repetitive cycle. In this 6-week course, we unravel our own ‘3 fetters’ of habit, vagueness and superficiality.

The Taste of Freedom
6 Mondays, 7.00-9.30pm
Starts 16 June

Led by Amalavajra, Amlanadhi and Maitrikumara.

Listen to how life-changing a course can be!

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Death Conversation Cafe, Sunday 29th June 2.30-4.30pm

From West London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 21 May, 2025 - 14:20

Death Conversation Cafe, Sunday 29th June 2.30-4.30pm

From West London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 21 May, 2025 - 14:20

An intimate, safe space to talk about any matters to do with death and dying in a supportive, non-sectarian setting.

We have been living through difficult times for the world, and humanity. Perhaps more than ever, we are pushed to explore our own mortality and what life means to us.

Based on the principles of Death Café, an initiative set up in 2011 by psychotherapis Jon Underwood, these gatherings respond to what many of us recognise as a lack of such opportunities in our...
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Meditation for a Transformative Life

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 1 May, 2025 - 21:24

Meditation for a Transformative Life

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 1 May, 2025 - 21:24

Wednesday evenings May 28 to June 25, 6:45 to 8:15 pm at 73 Court Street, Portsmouth NH

Are you curious about meditation or Buddhist teachings? Do you need resilience for difficult times? Are you looking for practical ways to live a simpler, kinder life and build community? These gatherings will give participants an introduction to Buddhist meditation and the Noble Eightfold Path. The Eightfold Path is a core teaching of the Buddha that addresses all aspects of living a transformative...
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‘Reimagining Buddhism’ coming soon in 2025!

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 3 Apr, 2025 - 11:10

‘Reimagining Buddhism’ coming soon in 2025!

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 3 Apr, 2025 - 11:10

We are delighted to give you a preview of an important new book by Vishvapani, which is due out in August 2025.

Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and his Teachings is a sparkling, deeply felt and penetrating account of the English Buddhist teacher, Urgyen Sangharakshita (1925–2018) – one of the most complex and brilliant figures in modern Buddhism. 

Drawing on the whole of Sangharakshita’s vast output, Vishvapani argues that Sangharakshita was primarily an ‘image thinker.’ He then sets out to trace the...
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Shabda April 2025

From Order Messenger on Tue, 1 Apr, 2025 - 14:08

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

  • eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
  • eBook Shabda .MOBI – This format is now deprecated, but this can still be used on older Kindle devices, and some older eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
  • PDF for digital Shabda – read with any PDF reader
  • HTML Shabda – read with any web browser
  • PDF for printing Shabda –
    • ...
File NameSize
ePub (for eBook readers, smartphones and tablets)2.93 MB
mobi (for older Kindle devices only)1.73 MB
PDF for digital (computers and eReaders)1.79 MB
HTML (web browsers)5.15 MB
PDF for printing1.13 MB
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SEE FAB: Sustainable Environment on Earth for All Beings

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 1 Apr, 2025 - 13:06

SEE FAB: Sustainable Environment on Earth for All Beings

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 1 Apr, 2025 - 13:06

Here comes an environmental audit tool for Buddhist organisations, developed as part of the European Buddhist Union’s SEE-FAB (Sustainable Environment on Earth for All Beings) project.

Intended to be used by Buddhist centres and organisations wishing to reduce their environmental impact, its purpose is to highlight important areas of consideration and inspire quick fixes and broader organisational change.

The checklist is freely available in many European languages and covers five major areas:

  • planning for sustainability
  • energy use
  • water use
  • resource use, and
  • biodiversity.


The list is intended...
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Letter from the College - April

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 1 Apr, 2025 - 00:00
  • Burial Mound at Adhisthana
  • Dikshabhumi in Nagpur
  • Kulanandi and Parami planting a Bodhi tree
  • Handover of land deed to ordination team
  • Jayadhi and Akasajoti

Letter from the College - April

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 1 Apr, 2025 - 00:00

This month’s letter comes from Parami, one of the Deputy Chair’s of the College: Parami first met Triratna in Glasgow, Scotland in 1977 after seeing a Change your Life! Poster. After moving into a community in London, Parami went on to be ordained by Sangharakshita in 1980. She has lived her life serving Triratna, which included moving to Spain in 1992 and becoming chair of the Valencia Buddhist Centre. Since then she has become both a private and public preceptor, served...
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Marketing & Fundraising Manager wanted to help WLBC thrive

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 - 17:29

Marketing & Fundraising Manager wanted to help WLBC thrive

From West London Buddhist Centre on Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 - 17:29

This is a newly combined role to increase attendance at WLBC classes, courses, and retreats, while also securing financial sustainability through fundraising, and potentially room hire. You will develop and implement strategies that attract newcomers and encourage regulars to deepen their engagement with our path of training. Alongside event promotion, you will cultivate relationships with donors, optimise fundraising campaigns and encourage a culture of giving within the sangha.

Team: WLBC Management Team, reporting to Amalavajra as Chair  

Time commitment: two to five...
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Building our Shrineroom

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 15:50

Building our Shrineroom

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 - 15:50

Our Meditation Space – our Shrine room

We want to build a sacred space; a Shrine room. The heart of our Buddhist temple. A place of transformation for all who enjoy Suryavana and practice within its protective mandala.

The intention is to renovate a part of the courtyard where there used to be a corral to care for and protect livestock. The builder responsible for the renovation of the...
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Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

From Adhisthana on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 10:30

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

From Adhisthana on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 10:30

Could you be our next cook or do our publicity?

Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita envisioned Adhisthana as a place of blessings, where the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community would gather and engage wholeheartedly with his radical vision of the Dharma in all its breadth, depth and clarity. As we move out of the 10th anniversary year of Adhisthana’s opening and into celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sangharakshita’s birth, our founder and teacher’s vision remains dynamic and alive.

Central to unfolding this vision are Adhisthana’s two single-sex...

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