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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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An appeal by Sanghadevi for Ratnavandana

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 11:40

An appeal by Sanghadevi for Ratnavandana

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 11:40

£6,000 raised help raise another £2,000 to reach the target

Ratnavandana is a much loved and appreciated meditation retreat leader, kalyana mitra, preceptor to 29 people and friend to many others. She worked in the Order and Movement from 1980 until 2006 in various roles - at a time when there were no Triratna workplace pensions or opportunities to save for later life.   

Ratnavandana has been living in the depths of rural Wales for the past 17 years – and is therefore completely dependent...
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Classic Sangharakshita’ series

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 18 Mar, 2025 - 15:48

Classic Sangharakshita’ series

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 18 Mar, 2025 - 15:48

We are delighted to announce the release of a brand new edition of Living with Awareness, Sangharakshita’s well-loved exposition on the Satipatthana Sutta.

This new edition, available in paperback and eBook formats, uses text updated during the Complete Works of Sangharakshita project, and is the first in a new ‘Classic Sangharakshita’ series launching this year to mark the centenary of the author’s birth.


In Living with Awareness Sangharakshita outlines the transformative power of mindfulness communicated in the Satipatthana Sutta, linking it to the Four...
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Stories of Sangharakshita

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Stories of Sangharakshita

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Sanghadevi shares some important interactions and observances of Bhante Sangharakshita through his involvement in the Movement and Order.
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'Buddhist Teachers in Europe' 2025 to meet at Adhisthana

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Thu, 13 Mar, 2025 - 11:58
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'Buddhist Teachers in Europe' 2025 to meet at Adhisthana

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Thu, 13 Mar, 2025 - 11:58

Buddhist Teachers in Europe (BTE) is an informal group of Dharma/Dhamma teachers from a range of traditions and countries within Europe, including the UK. Their main meeting is an annual three-day gathering hosted in turn by one teacher or another, somewhere in Europe or the UK.

As part of my work as Triratna’s ‘Liaison officer’ I have attended BTE meetings every year since 2013. While they have varied in style...
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Transforming the Heart with Kindness

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 12 Mar, 2025 - 15:57

Transforming the Heart with Kindness

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 12 Mar, 2025 - 15:57

Meditation practice helps us to develop contentment, clarity, integration, concentration, and a sense of peace. Whether you’re just looking to find some stillness in your life, or to directly explore the nature of consciousness, this class is a great way to begin! 

In this introductory meditation workshop we will explore the Buddha’s teaching of kindness or metta, generally as a living principle, and more specifically as a meditation practice. Participants will learn the Metta Bhavana, or Cultivation of Loving-Kindness, a meditation that...
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Jayadhi

Kalyana Mitra Yoga – Sangharakshita 100 OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 11 Mar, 2025 - 17:29

Kalyana Mitra Yoga – Sangharakshita 100 OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 11 Mar, 2025 - 17:29

I entreat you, O Buddha Shakyamuni, revealer of the Dharma,
And you, Urgyen Sangharakshita, who have given me the gift of the Dharma,
Please witness my Going for Refuge to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha,
And grant me your blessings.

On 19 January, Mahamati, as the Chair of the College, opened a year of practice, for order members, in celebration of the birth centenary year of Urgyen Sangharakshita – calling on the blessings of our teacher, through the...

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