From Triratna News on Fri, 22 Nov, 2013 - 15:19With sadness we report the death of Candrasri, in Cambridge, UK, on Monday 18th November, aged 68.
Candrasri’s funeral will take place at Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Monday, 2nd December at 12 noon, with a memorial service on Wednesday 18th December at 7.30pm.
Candrasri was ordained at Akashavana in the summer of 2012 and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer shortly after.
According to her preceptor Viryaprabha, “Candrasri faced death in the way that she...
From Triratna News on Wed, 20 Nov, 2013 - 20:14Jodie writes from Triratna’s Melbourne Buddhist Centre where they’ve just celebrated their first meditation flash mob. She says - “The bad jokes came rolling in while we were organising our latest Melbourne event, a meditation “flash mob”. With first prize going to Harvey’s “We could be arrested for disturbing the unease.” Seriously, as part of this year’s Urban Retreat we decided to spend a Friday evening meditating outside and chose Federation Square for the event, in...
From Buddhafield on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 17:15We’d like to invite you to a Buddhafield Working Weekend at Trevince House, Hittesleigh, Devon.
The weekend will include periods of work on Buddhafield equipment and may include cleaning, packing and storing, loading vehicles, etc., so please bring appropriate clothing.
We’ll start with dinner at 6pm on Friday evening, ending after lunch on the Sunday. We’ll also be meditating, doing puja together and applying some aspect of the Buddhadharma to both our work and sitting practice. If...
From Lights In The Sky on Sun, 17 Nov, 2013 - 12:00THISLONG film, which can be downloaded from Vimeo*, explores the extent of Triratna Buddhism and tries to combine breadth with depth. I’m interested to know how it succeeds. As someone wrote:
From a community living in Australia to solitary retreat in New Zealand, from a train journey through Eastern Europe to a nursing home in Manchester, from a new Centre in Paris to someone’s personal myth in Finland. The film’s charm comes from its simple honesty: there is...
A talk during the setup for Buddhafield Festival 2013 (theme 'Fire in the Heart') on the Four Brahma Viharas.
Talk given at the LBC's Dharma Night class Mon Nov 18th 2013 - based upon the book Living Wisely by Sangharakshita
