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Ordinations at Guhyaloka / Ordenaciones en Guhyaloka

From Triratna News on Mon, 3 Oct, 2016 - 13:23

Ordinations at Guhyaloka / Ordenaciones en Guhyaloka

From Triratna News on Mon, 3 Oct, 2016 - 13:23

We are delighted to announce the public ordinations of 11 new Dharmacharis on Saturday 1st October at a bilingual Spanish-English retreat at Guhyaloka Retreat Centre, Spain.

Estoy muy contento de anunciar los nombres de once nuevos Dharmacharis que se ordenaron el sábado 1 de octubre en un retiro bilingüe en el centro de retiros de Guhyaloka, España.

Public preceptor/Preceptor público: Mahamati

Mat New
becomes Saṅgharuci,
a Sanskrit name meaning “He who longs for spiritual community”
(Westernised spelling Sangharuchi).
Private preceptor: Sanghadeva
se convierte en Saṅgharuci,
...

Dhivan Thomas Jones

What was it like for early Buddhist women?

From Western Buddhist Review on Sat, 1 Oct, 2016 - 13:30

What was it like for early Buddhist women?

From Western Buddhist Review on Sat, 1 Oct, 2016 - 13:30

Here, Dharmacārinī Vajratārā reviews a collection of scholarly essays exploring how it was for women in early Buddhism – at a time before feminism when nevertheless women were taken seriously as dharma practitioners.

Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies

essays by various scholars, edited and introduced by Alice Collett

Oxford University Press, USA, 2014, 274pp., hback and ebook

Reviewed by Vajratārā

What were the attitudes towards women in early Indian Buddhism? Does textual analysis of early Buddhist texts corroborate the idea that early Buddhists saw women...

Munisha

A Triratna 'forest garden'

From Triratna News on Fri, 30 Sep, 2016 - 10:08

A Triratna 'forest garden'

From Triratna News on Fri, 30 Sep, 2016 - 10:08

Hridayabija, or “Seed of the heart”, is the name of a glorious ”forest garden” in east Devon, in the west of England.

Its creator, Sagaravajra, has spent the last six years creating this small Pure Land in a field. Clear Vision went to meet him for NewsByte.

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First Volume of The Complete Works of Sangharakshita is Published - Interview with the Editors

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 29 Sep, 2016 - 11:09

First Volume of The Complete Works of Sangharakshita is Published - Interview with the Editors

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 29 Sep, 2016 - 11:09

We at Windhorse Publications have just published the very first of the 27 volumes that will comprise The Complete Works of Sangharakshita; a momentous step in our project of gathering together this great teacher’s output including Dharma teachings of many kinds, commentaries, memoirs, poetry and more. This first volume, volume 9 in the series, is entitled, Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism I. It includes Sangharakshita’s Ambedkar and Buddhism, which has been out-of-print for some time, along with 36 talks given in India...

Dhammalata

Two Treats This Week

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 27 Sep, 2016 - 07:22

Two Treats This Week

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 27 Sep, 2016 - 07:22

Two excellent treats for you …...

This Thursday Ratnajyoti will be leading the meditation in Coogeee. Ratnajyoti means shining or radiant Jewel and in my long experience of him he lives up to his name.

Ratnajyoti founded and has run Windhorse Books for many years now; some of you will have visited Bodhi Books and Gifts on King Street in Newtown. He is also supported to develop our program at the Sydney Buddhist Centre in addition to doing chaplaincy work in...

Munisha

Jai Bhim! The Roma Buddhists of Hungary

From Triratna News on Fri, 23 Sep, 2016 - 11:57

Jai Bhim! The Roma Buddhists of Hungary

From Triratna News on Fri, 23 Sep, 2016 - 11:57

Mokshapriya is a British film-maker, founder in 1992 of Clear Vision, Triratna’s video project in Manchester, UK. Here’s the video he made recently about the Dr Ambedkar High School, founded by Hungarian mitras for Hungary’s Roma/gypsy community, inspired by Dr BR Ambedkar and the achievements of India’s ‘New Buddhists’.

“My first visit to Hungary took me far from the delights of Buda and Pest to an even greater wonder, in the rural north east of the country. Here, a...

Munisha

At last, the video!

From Mainland European Order Convention 2015 on Thu, 22 Sep, 2016 - 14:47

At last, the video!

From Mainland European Order Convention 2015 on Thu, 22 Sep, 2016 - 14:47

Here is the video of the Mainland European Order Convention 2015! Sorry a few things prevented its appearance a bit earlier - partly my fault.

IJust enjoy 5 minutes of sunny summer lakeside happiness.

Nandavajra

Job Opportunity: Fundraising Co-ordinator for India Dhamma Trust.

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 21 Sep, 2016 - 11:57

Job Opportunity: Fundraising Co-ordinator for India Dhamma Trust.

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 21 Sep, 2016 - 11:57

Job Opportunity: Fundraising Co-ordinator for India Dhamma Trust.

Help be part of the revival of Buddhism in the land of its birth! The India Dhamma Trust is looking for a new fundraising Co-ordinator. The job involves raising awareness of the work of Triratna in India, as well as raising much needed funds.

As an aspect of fundraising and donor care, the work includes a diverse range of activities such as publicity work, visiting Centres and giving presentations and talking to people...

Dhammalata

This Being That Becomes

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 21 Sep, 2016 - 08:03

This Being That Becomes

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 21 Sep, 2016 - 08:03

‘The question now arises of where we can find lasting satisfaction and happiness in this obviously unreliable situation. No doubt there is fantastic thrill in riding the glittering surf of our good fortune, while it lasts, or in abandoning ourselves to the intoxication of the cosmic dance. Life can sometimes seem amazing. But things go wrong because nothing lasts, and in any case life is not in our control. However, the Buddha’s teaching points to a different kind of happiness...

akasajoti

Vimalamati - Filaments of Compassion

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 20 Sep, 2016 - 00:14

Vimalamati - Filaments of Compassion

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 20 Sep, 2016 - 00:14

From a series of talks given on the Women’s International Order Convention 2016, taking one of the figures of the different sadhana practices that Sangharakshita received as the focus for each day.

Vimalamati gives a beautifully rich and imaginative talk on the day devoted to Padmasambhava. She focuses on the red lotus arising from the blue sky, describing the space from which the yiddam appears as the fabric of a fine silk made of the filaments of compassion.

Please note that Tarahridaya, who kindly...

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