We are delighted to let you know that the following 5 women will be ordained in the course of a Spanish-speaking pilgrimage to Adhisthana. The pilgrimage will be exploring the Life and Work of Sangharakshita and its relevance to the Spanish-speaking world.
The private ordinations will take place during the second week of the pilgrimage / retreat and the Public will take place at 2.30pm (UK time) on Wednesday 20th September. A few friends have been invited to attend the public...
With inspiring candour, Devamitra speaks from his own experience on the importance of valuing and facing our adversities (duhkha), explaining how that naturally leads into faith, and into the joy of gratitude. He also briefly introduces his new book on his experience as a cross-dressing Buddhist. Excerpted from the talk From Adversity to Gratitude and Beyond given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2016.
Alfoxton House in Somerset, England has a long and rich history stretching back over 1000 years. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is where the young William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their great friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped birth the radical new Romantic movement during a magical year there in 1797.
In June 2020, a new Triratna Buddhist community received the keys to this astonishing property set within 52 acres...
Saddhanandi riffs off a talk that Sangharakshita gave to the Buddhist Society in 1975 entitled ‘Enlightenment as Experience and Non-Experience’. She reflects on the content as well as the context, just what was happening with these early lectures by Sangharakshita, just six years after the first ordinations. Given on retreat at Adhisthana, 2022.
It is with a heavy heart that we inform you about the passing of Dhammachari Virapriya from Amaravati, Maharashtra. He peacefully died on the 18th of August 2023 at approximately 7:00am at the age of 71.
Dhammachari Virapriya received ordination on the 25th of May 2014. His private preceptor, Amoghasiddhi played a significant role in guiding his spiritual journey. The public ordination was given by Dhammachari Chandrashil.
