During International Council Meeting our guest Dhammacharini Amarchandra as painted greeting at Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center and presented it to retreat center.
Thanks to Dhni. Amarchandra for such a beautiful painting of site of retreat center.
We are very sad to inform you that Dharmachari Ratnavajra has been expelled from the Order. Sudarshana, his Public Preceptor, is no longer with us, so this decision was made after careful deliberation by the Indian Public Preceptors kula. The final decision was communicated to Ratnavajra on the 8th of March 2018 in presence of Jutindhar, who was his Private Preceptor.
A few years ago the Indian Public Preceptors Kula received a complaint from a...
I think that what can so often happen in Internet communication is that Party A, will declare to Party B, that Party C has spoken unskilfully on one Forum or another. Before going any further I think it would be fair to accept that Party A believes themselves to be genuinely stating the truth about Party C.
However, given how rare it is for everyone to catch every posting on the Internet, Party B thus stands very little...
This article follows on from Satyadhana’s ‘Understanding paṭicca-samuppāda’ and Sagaramati’s & Kamalashila’s ‘Actually understanding paṭicca-samuppāda’
“黑 猫 白 猫，能 捉 到 老 鼠 就 是 好 猫”
Satyadhana (SD) and Sagaramati & Kamalshila (S&K) seem to agree (with probably most of us) ‘that the Buddha’s motive in going forth was to end dukkha, which he is said to have achieved under the Bodhi tree’ (S&K: 8). As the Buddha often said, his teachings were about dukkha and the way to...
There are many different Buddhist projects happening around the Triratna world. One interesting project is a school run by Buddhists in Amravati in Maharashtra, in India.
The Urygen Sangharakshita International School was officially opened by Subhuti in 2016. It was the brainchild of Mitra Sandeep Janardan Rakshit (a teacher in a Marathi state school) who felt that setting up a Buddhist school would be a worthwhile endeavour - and ‘Urygen Sangharaskhita’ seemed like a fitting name as a mark of...
Wild Awake will soon be found in UK-based and European Triratna centre bookshops. The book will take a bit longer to emerge in bookshops outside the UK and Europe, as the book distributors’ release in the US and the Americas is in June.
In Wild Awake, Vajragupta draws on twenty-five years of experience going into nature alone. He recounts how these...
This series of five sessions will be a journey into focused positive emotion. We’ll be using the framework of the Metta Bhavana and modifying it to draw in the other Brahma Viharas and deeply explore individual relationships to create some extra intensity around the practice.
Our meditation sessions begin at 2:30pm ET / 7:30pm UK Session Dates: Mar 6, Mar 13, Mar 20, Mar 27, Apr 3
