Proposed mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse in England and Wales

This week has seen publication of the final report from the long-running government enquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales, which recommends that it be made a criminal offence for a person who works with children or is in a ‘position of trust’ to fail to report child sexual abuse to the police where they witness it or are told about it by a child or perpetrator.

Over the last seven years, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual...

Public Preceptor Appointment: Akasasuri

Dear Order Members and friends,

The College of Public Preceptors is delighted to announce the appointment of Akasasuri as a Public Preceptor. I am especially glad to welcome another Public Preceptor from mainland Europe, into the the College.

You can read more about Akasasuri’s life and contribution over many years to the Order and Movement, in her own words below.

With metta,
Ratnadharini 

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From Akasasuri:

I was born in 1954 in a loving family in the Netherlands. Dad ran the village Post office from our house and...

Creu sangha Cymraeg / Creating a Welsh speaking sangha

Ein gweledigaeth yw cael y Dharma ar gael i bawb yn eu mam iaith. I roi cyfle i bawb sy’n ymarfer y Dharma i gysylltu yn fwy llawn efo cryfder emosiynol sy’n dyfod trwy ymarfer yn eich mam iaith. Tydi’r Gymraeg ddim yn ffurf niwtral o gyfathrebu i siaradwyr Cymraeg, mae’n rhan hanfodol o ddiwylliant arbennig i Gymry Cymraeg, mae’r iaith ynghlwm a’r galon ac felly yn linc uniongyrchol i’r bywyd emosiynol. Mi ydan ni eisiau’r Dharma fod yn rhan o’r diwylliant...

The Life of Things - Animism and the Dharma - An Online Course

Six Wednesdays, 9 November - 14 December - 7-9.15pm

‘…a universe conceived of as dead cannot be a universe in which one stands any chance of attaining Enlightenment.’ Sangharakshita, Living with Awareness

One of the most urgent challenges facing humanity is to establish a respectful and sustainable relationship with the natural world. The nature-based spiritual tradition of animism offers both a mythical and a practical basis for such a relationship. Buddhism and animism have long been bedfellows, from when the Buddha roamed the forests...