What do you do if you meet a dragon? What is the fire chamber? And what is the treasure? Bodhinaga shares his enthusiasm for nagas and dragons through the story of the Buddhas and his encounter with a fire breathing naga inside the Fire Chamber.
From Triratna News on Wed, 9 May, 2012 - 11:01Bodhidaka writes from Guhyaloka, Triratna’s men’s retreat centre in the Spanish mountains, with news of their plans for Triratna’s first ‘One Year Retreat’ - and an invitation to contribute to it. He says -
“Since its founding in 1986 Guhyaloka retreat centre has hosted Triratna’s annual 4 month Ordination retreats for men. There has been a resident community here almost continuously since then, and many changes in how the community here has organised itself. Besides the regular...
From Triratna News on Wed, 9 May, 2012 - 10:34Triratna’s Ipswich Buddhist Centre created a splash in the city centre over the weekend as they celebrated the Buddha’s Enlightenment in the Cornhill, Ipswich’s central square. Building on last year’s successful initiative, this year they expanded the Festival to include the Sri Lankan Community (who came and gave away heaps of food), the local Community of Interbeing (Thich Nhat Hanh group), and Soka Gakkai International. Jnanamitra reports - “It was lovely to be celebrating together. It was wet...
From Triratna News on Tue, 8 May, 2012 - 05:26Harshaprabha writes with news of the latest developments in the small Triratna sangha in Canada. He says - “I’ve just returned from an enjoyable and worthwhile trip to Guelph, in Ontario Canada, where I co-led no less than eight Newcomers Events of two and a half hours each. I was accompanied and assisted by Nagarakshita from the LBC in London - it was her first visit to Guelph although she has a connection with Canada through her...
In the context of Bhante and Subhuti's paper, Maitreyabandhu explores re-imagining the Buddha through the artistic and spritual value of Aloka's new Rupa at Padmaloka Retreat Centre.
From Triratna News on Sun, 6 May, 2012 - 05:31Recent months have seen two very different books published by members of the Triratna Buddhist Order: ‘Pilgrimage to Anywhere’ by Rijumati, and ‘Error Message’ by Ananda (writing under his english name of Stephen Parr) - his debut science fiction novel.
Error Message sees the earth threatened with annihilation by a sentient and hyper-intelligent computer network obsessed with understanding Russian jokes, which has spread across 20 light years of space near the Owl Nebula. This is the setting...
Kula - “Community of the heart; a group coming together of its own free will; an intentional community; family; clan…”
If you like what we’re doing on The Buddhist Centre Online and have the coding skills and mojo you think could help, this is a space for you. If you think you might like to volunteer,volunteer [at] thebuddhistcentre.com (subject: coding%20kula) ( contact us anytime) and we’ll talk through how that might...
What do you do if you meet a dragon? What is the fire chamber? And what is the treasure? Bodhinaga shares his enthusiasm for nagas and dragons through the story of the Buddhas and his encounter with a fire breathing naga inside the Fire Chamber.
In the context of Bhante and Subhuti's paper, Maitreyabandhu explores re-imagining the Buddha through the artistic and spritual value of Aloka's new Rupa at Padmaloka Retreat Centre.
