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New Buddhist Centre for Barcelona

From Triratna News on Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 - 23:59

New Buddhist Centre for Barcelona

From Triratna News on Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 - 23:59

Triratna’s sangha in Barcelona, Spain, bought their first Buddhist Centre last year. Just six weeks from opening they are working hard. They still need to raise €15,000.

Sugarbha writes: “This is a really exciting project for Triratna Barcelona. Thanks to a legacy donation, in summer 2016 we secured a mortgage and purchased a building to convert into a centre. This is obviously a huge step forward for us, and for Triratna in mainland Europe.

We were able to secure the mortgage mainly due to a substantial sum...

Munisha

Growth Fund 2017 now open

From Triratna News on Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 - 10:49

Growth Fund 2017 now open

From Triratna News on Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 - 10:49

Every year Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly (ECA) invites applications to its Growth Fund, for projects encouraging/enabling more people to learn basic meditation and Dharma with Triratna. The closing date this year is 28th May and applications are invited from Triratna Groups or Centres.

Mokshini writes from the ECA’s Development Team: “In 2017, we have a total of around £5600 available and we envisage this being given in relatively small amounts of up to £1000 each to Triratna projects around the world,...

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Children Camp organized in 4 Areas of Nagpur

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 - 10:34

Children Camp organized in 4 Areas of Nagpur

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 - 10:34

We have organised Four Children Camps for slums children. Those would learn various things and enjoy their childhood through activities run for them. Our team is very happy to contribute in various area of Nagpur. We planned for Gorewada Hazaripahad slum, Koradi and remote area named Walani. We not only planned for children but also to the parents ! Dr. Abhishkh Wasnik who is Dhammamitra, will address...

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Ordinations in Mexico City

From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Apr, 2017 - 09:34

Ordinations in Mexico City

From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Apr, 2017 - 09:34

We are delighted to announce that the following women received their public ordination yesterday at the Mexico City Buddhist Centre.

Ayer, en El Centro Budista de la Cuidad de México, las siguentes mujeres recibieron su ordenación pública:

Public preceptor / Preceptora pública Parami

Gisela Peters becomes Moksasi (dot under the first ‘s’, long ‘a’ and long ‘i’), a Sanskrit name meaning ‘She who holds the sword of freedom’ / un nombre Sánscrito que quiere decir ‘La que sostiene la espada de la...

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Special Action for 2017 - #7 Bodhisattva Training in the City: It's Time for Social Action

From Buddhist Action on Fri, 21 Apr, 2017 - 18:10

Special Action for 2017 - #7 Bodhisattva Training in the City: It's Time for Social Action

From Buddhist Action on Fri, 21 Apr, 2017 - 18:10

BAM! JOIN THE KARUNA REVOLUTION

During the month of BAM, we will be calling our existing Karuna supporters from the Karuna office to engage and inspire them further.

We need a team of 6 volunteers for 6 weeks who are willing...

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Why Buy From Us?

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 21 Apr, 2017 - 16:28

Why Buy From Us?

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 21 Apr, 2017 - 16:28

We value your custom no matter how you buy our books. But who you buy from can wind up directing more or less money to us … which affects our ability to support new and existing books. Besides this, there are ways all our customers can get a discount … read on …

Buying from our website

Buying from our website as compared with any other website is preferable for us, as we receive 100% of...

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Feeling Grounded

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 21 Apr, 2017 - 16:09

Feeling Grounded

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 21 Apr, 2017 - 16:09

With so much activity of late, it’s been a refreshing change to have some quiet in the last week. With much of the ‘messy’ jobs complete and many of our fixtures and fittings gradually put into place, focus has turned to organising our re-opening. We’re starting our countdown now that we’re stepping into the last four weeks. How exciting! It’s shaping up to be a wonderful day welcoming sangha past and present.

Carpets, lino and blinds are ordered, so it feels good...

Candradasa

Buddhist Voices From Mexico - Upeksamati On How To Start A Buddhist Centre

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 20 Apr, 2017 - 16:52

Continuing our series of in-depth conversations with Buddhists in Mexico, here is the irrepressible Upeksamati: Dharma pioneer in his homeland and founder of the Mexico City Buddhist Center.

We hear of his own Buddhist training in England in the 1980s and ’90s and how that influenced his approach to bringing what he learned back home again. We get, in effect, a crash course in the essentials of starting a new Buddhist Center - at scale, and with ambition!

Always engaging, always in love with...

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Ashvaghosh Cultural wing programme

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Tue, 18 Apr, 2017 - 15:43

Ashvaghosh Cultural wing programme

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Tue, 18 Apr, 2017 - 15:43

We recently celebrated Triratna’s Golden Jubilee and 126th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Our cultural wing Ashvaghosh Prabodhan Kala Manch invited at village named Bharatwada, Nagpur. Our team presented songs of Babasaheb which was a great opportunity to develop awareness among villagers about the social issues and Dhamma practise.

People, nearly 200 were moved and inspired. They...

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Pleasure

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 18 Apr, 2017 - 04:56

Pleasure

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 18 Apr, 2017 - 04:56

Do you find meditation pleasurable?

I’m reading a book by Subhuti, one of our senior order members. It’s entitled ‘Mind in Harmony’ and is a very practical approach to Buddhist psychology.
In the section I’m currently reading he’s talking about the importance of pleasure. More specifically the need to refine our sense of pleasure from more crude and raw expressions to increasingly subtle and beautiful.
“Perhaps it helps to recognise that there is a hierarchy of...

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