From Triratna News on Sat, 23 Nov, 2013 - 00:03Earlier this year, Upekshapriya took over as director of The Clear Vision Trust, in Manchester, UK. Clear Vision is a Triratna video project, providing Buddhst video for Triratna and for schools.
As the longest-standing member of the team, Upekshapriya has shown enormous commitment and dedication; since 1997 he’s worked as cameraman, video editor and director as well as providing the team with IT support. He works alongiside Munisha (previous director and still education officer) and Graham Dellow...
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...