On the 7th April 2018 - exactly fifty years after the first public ordinations into the Triratna Buddhist Order - Saddhanandi interviews Sangharakshita, the founder of the Order and movement. The interview took place during a seminar on the Bodhicaryavatara held in Adhisthana. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Order, Saddhanandi and Manjuvajra re-visited the ‘Endlessly Fascinating Cry’ which was one of the first seminars that Sangharakshita led in 1973.
‘You cruel little devil!’ shouted our neighbour over the wire netting that separated her back garden from ours. The reason for her wrath was that I had just ‘shot’ a cat with my water pistol. It was not that I wanted to hurt the cat but only to stop it scratching up my father’s bulbs, and in any case, a few drops of water would do it no harm.
Recollecting this incident years later, it occurred...
El Centro Budista de Valencia busca nuevo/a Director/a, ya que el Director actual, Amalamati, ha decidido dejar el puesto después de 7 años.
Somos una sangha con mucho que ofrecer. Nuestro Centro urbano, ubicado cerca del centro de la ciudad, tiene asociados unos 25 Miembros de la Orden y unos 60 mitras, y un programa de actividades para diversos grupos y niveles de involucramiento: principiantes, asiduos, mitras, jóvenes y Miembros de la Orden, además de clases y...
New opportunity to join a Residential Buddhist Community
At Gosinga, a residential community based at the 4th floor of the Manchester Buddhist Centre we’re sad that Mahashraddha is moving out this summer. However, this gives rise to an opportunity for someone to join us living in a Buddhist Community right at the heart of our Manchester Sangha.
We are currently 4 guys, two order members and two mitras training for ordination. We are Sthirajyoti, Sanghadhara, Paul F. and Daniel J.The name of our community,...
This FBA Dharmabyte is called ‘Stepping Through The Portal’ by Nagapriya from the talk Cherish the Doctrine, Part 1 of a three part series based around the motto of the great Tibetan 20th Century teacher Dhardo Rimpoche - “Cherish the Doctrine, Live United, Radiate Love”.
Nagapriya takes an unusual angle - referencing the Spike Jonze movie ‘Being John Malkovich’, he speaks of the Dharma as a portal into the Buddha’s mind itself. Talk...
It’s been three weeks since Danakamala had a heart attack and was admitted to hospital. He had bypass surgery on April 5th that went well for his heart, but afterwards he experienced a severe level of respiratory distress and has remained on a ventilator (breathing tube) since the surgery.
A week ago (Saturday April 14) he had a tracheostomy procedure which allowed for the breathing tube to come out of his mouth and enter at his throat. This allowed...
In Wild Awake: Alone, Offline and Aware in Nature Vajragupta draws on twenty-five years of experience going into nature alone. He recounts how these ‘solitary retreats’ have changed him, how he fell in love with the places he stayed in and the creatures there and includes a helpful A-Z guide on how to go about your own solitary retreat. Wild Awake is available from Windhorse Publications as a paperback or an eBook.
Lights in the Sky have just released a new film celebrating 50 years of the Triratna Buddhist Order, which was founded in London on the 7 April 1968. ‘The Life of the Order’ contains archive footage and interviews with Order Members and gives a rounded picture of the era out of which the Order emerged.
The film is a 45 minute compilation of the main themes of the four-part History of the FWBO series.
From the 10th to the 13th May 2018 the Dutch and the Belgian Sanghas are holding an Order-Mitra Convention at the Dutch retreat centre Metta Vihara, to which they have invited some Mitras from the Hungarian gypsy community. The Convention will be held in English and any Mitra or Order Member are welcome to attend. Future Dharma have provided funding to enable these Mitras, as well as Maitriveer Nagarjuna - who will be giving a key talk on Dr Ambedkar - to attend...
Women Mitra Study Retreat from 16th to 23rd April 18 on Eight fold path led by Women Going for Refugee team Dhni. Shubhajaya, Dhni. Shilvati, Dhni. Vimalsuri, Dhni. Bodhiratna, Dhni. Kamalcitta and Dhni. Modini. 90 Dhammamitra attended retreat.
