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West London featured in survey of Buddhist buildings

From Triratna News on Tue, 26 Apr, 2016 - 10:46

West London featured in survey of Buddhist buildings

From Triratna News on Tue, 26 Apr, 2016 - 10:46

Triratna’s new West London Buddhist Centre, UK is the latest feature in the survey, ‘Buddhist Buildings in England’ undertaken by English Heritage with the University of Leeds. As they point out, it’s Triratna’s only purpose-built urban centre in the UK.

See the other Triratna buildings featured in the survey.
See all the Buddhist buildings featured, of many traditions.

Purpose-built Buddhist centres are rare for any Buddhist tradition in the UK. Another one - perhaps the other one - is ...

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'Standing shoulder to shoulder with one another' - an appeal from Vessantara

From Abhayaratna Trust on Tue, 26 Apr, 2016 - 08:04

'Standing shoulder to shoulder with one another' - an appeal from Vessantara

From Abhayaratna Trust on Tue, 26 Apr, 2016 - 08:04

‘The whole sense that Sangharakshita gave me of the Order was of something through which we were deeply involved with one another’s lives, were really standing shoulder to shoulder with one another, caring for one another not just spiritually but on all levels, and that’s really stayed with me. That spirit is still alive in the Order today, and I feel that The Abhayaratna Trust is one way we can really express it.’

Vessantara

tejadhamma

Anjali practicing to walk after successful operation of her clubfoot

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sun, 24 Apr, 2016 - 08:25

Anjali practicing to walk after successful operation of her clubfoot

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sun, 24 Apr, 2016 - 08:25

Anjali is 6 years old from Vadaar Community (Wanderer Community & stamped ‘criminal’ by birth) where People to People is helping 51 children to enter in the educational stream. Anjali is ‘First Generation’ started to go to school. She had a lot difficulties to walk on her own foot at school on her clubfoot. She is suffering by poverty; so was unable to cope up the operation expenses by her parents who wander village to village and ’just collect’ women’s hair...

Munisha

New right livelihood and community project, Germany

From Triratna News on Sat, 23 Apr, 2016 - 17:39

New right livelihood and community project, Germany

From Triratna News on Sat, 23 Apr, 2016 - 17:39

Simone Deiringer is a Mitra in Triratna’s Berlin sangha, Germany, training for ordination and exploring possibilities for a project enabling sangha to live and work together near Berlin.

She writes: “I am looking for somewhere close to Berlin where we can establish a collective project, living and working together. Right now I am investigating a small agriculture and gardening business for sale in the Uckermark (an hour and a half drive from the city): 10 hectares of land with buildings and a working horse!

My...

Munisha

Introducing the Triratna Translations Board

From Triratna News on Wed, 20 Apr, 2016 - 15:42

Introducing the Triratna Translations Board

From Triratna News on Wed, 20 Apr, 2016 - 15:42

Bhante’s 90th birthday fundraising last year raised well over £100,000 for the publication of his Complete Works, a job which is well under way and to which Bhante himself added more money specifically for translations. (You can too!) Suvannavira writes from Moscow about the work of the newly formed Triratna Translations Board.

“In a world where so many seem to speak English, why bother translating books by Bhante and his disciples into other languages? Imagine coming to...

Dhammalata

Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 19 Apr, 2016 - 02:26

Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 19 Apr, 2016 - 02:26

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water

This famous Zen saying captures the magic of spiritual growth and development.

One’s life might look very similar as one understands one’s life and experience more and more fully and as one’s heart opens wider and wider. We may very well still be parents, partners, employees and whatever roles and functions we fulfil but our experience of these roles and the life that we live changes profoundly.

Freedom, contentment, peace...

Munisha

Triratna: safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

From Triratna News on Fri, 15 Apr, 2016 - 23:26

Triratna: safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

From Triratna News on Fri, 15 Apr, 2016 - 23:26

“Ensuring the sexual, physical and psychological safety of young people and vulnerable adults involved in the activities of Triratna Buddhist Centres and other enterprises is an expression of the First Precept: the principle of non-harming, or love.”

So opens Triratna’s ‘Child protection general advice’ document for centres and enterprises in Europe, the introduction to a set of model policies developed over the last three years to help Triratna’s European Chairs meet their ethical and legal responsibilities to safeguard children and ‘vulnerable adults’.
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shraddhavani

Meditation Workshop: Going Deeper with Mindfulness of Breathing

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 15 Apr, 2016 - 21:18

Meditation Workshop: Going Deeper with Mindfulness of Breathing

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 15 Apr, 2016 - 21:18

Join us on Saturday, May 14, 9AM - 1PM. In this workshop, Dh Satyada will provide an introduction to the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha’s core teaching on mindfulness of breathing practice. The verses in this sutta lead the practitioner through observation of the breath into the four fields of mindfulness – body, feelings, mental states (mood), and mind objects. In progressive stages, Anapansati strengthens our ability to focus the mind and gladden the heart as we embrace the reality...

upekshapriya

Parting from the Four Clingings OM

From Clear Vision Trust on Thu, 14 Apr, 2016 - 12:11

Parting from the Four Clingings OM

From Clear Vision Trust on Thu, 14 Apr, 2016 - 12:11

Padmavajra presents Zempa Zidel - ‘Parting From the Four Clingings’ a short - and celebrated - teaching from the Tibetan Sakya Tradition by Sachen Kunga Nyingpo. Padmavajra comments: “It’s only four lines, but was given by Manjusri himself! Apparently Bhante did study on this text the first time he taught the Manjughosha Stuti Sadhana (alas this one was unrecorded). .. I think the first two lines are particularly important for us because they aim at cutting off the very real...

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Bodhidasa

Dr Ambedkar - a celebration in Sydney

From Sydney Buddhist Centre on Thu, 14 Apr, 2016 - 08:57

Dr Ambedkar - a celebration in Sydney

From Sydney Buddhist Centre on Thu, 14 Apr, 2016 - 08:57

To celebrate the 125 Jayanti (birthday) of Dr B. R. Ambedkar and the incredible achievements of his life, the Sydney Buddhist Centre’s Young Triratna group and a number of committed members of the Sydney Order (many of whom were recently ordained in India) hosted a special evening of reflection and celebration of this remarkable man.

This short video gives some of the many highlights of an evening rejoicing in the man who, among his many achievements, helped re-establishe Buddhism in the country of...

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