Travel and Translations

From International Retreat 2014 on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 14:08Arriving and Leaving
Feel free to arrive from midday on Friday 23rd May, especially if you are camping. It’s good to have time to arrive and put up your tent etc. There will be tea and food available from early evening.

The event ends after lunch on Tuesday 27th May.

Translations and visitors from overseas
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What Is A Retreat?

From International Retreat 2014 on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 13:32A retreat begins with a choice: to take time out from your usual routine, and instead take up the chance to meditate, study and reflect on the Buddha”s teachings with like-minded people, often in beautiful, peaceful countryside. Triratna has different retreat centres running different “styles” of retreat, such as emphasising meditation and silence, or study, or retreats for families.

The International Retreat offers a special opportunity: to gather with people from all over the Triratna...

Reporting from the Young Women’s Dharma Life Course

From Triratna News on Tue, 6 May, 2014 - 00:09In February this year, eight women aged 22-44 from Poland, Germany, Mexico, the UK and USA arrived at Adhisthana for the first-ever Young Women’s Dharma Life Course. They are now about halfway through their five months.

Watch a 7-minute video they made about themselves.

Claudia Krüger is from Essen in Germany. She writes: “The large field, on which many tents will be put up during the International Retreat later this month, offers...

Vegan Day: Green Light for Action and Compassion

From Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 16:01A Bodhisattva helps suffering beings without hesitation because he has the clarity, the means and the open heart.
Explore the joy and challenges of becoming a vegan. There will be a talk and discussion to clarify our mind, a session of meditation to coax our heart, a poetry event to awaken our imagination and delicious vegan food, the means to alleviate the suffering of sentient beings.

10:30 Introduction to Loving Kindness meditation

11:15 Talk by Amalasiddhi

12:00...