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Subhadramati appointed as a public preceptor

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 21 Jan, 2016 - 10:34

Subhadramati appointed as a public preceptor

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 21 Jan, 2016 - 10:34

Subhadramati was ordained in 1995 at Tiratanaloka, privately by Anjali and publically by Sanghadevi. In 1999, after 13 years during which she worked in the team-based right livelihood at the Cherry Orchard restaurant and lived in communities around the London Buddhist Centre, she moved to Dublin. She lived there for 7 years, helping to run the Centre. She is now president of the Dublin Buddhist Centre and visits...

Prajnaketu

Young Sangha Hangout - New England USA

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Thu, 21 Jan, 2016 - 09:56

Young Sangha Hangout - New England USA

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Thu, 21 Jan, 2016 - 09:56

If you’re a New England Triratna sangha member in your 20s and 30s (or thereabouts and young at heart) please join us for the fourth gathering of the Young Person’s Sangha!

These monthly gatherings are a great chance to get together with other young sangha members to hang out, get to know each other, and talk about various issues and topics. Come be a part of the creation of our fledgling gang of Dharma practitioners!

The...

Dhammalata

An Invitation

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 20 Jan, 2016 - 02:54

An Invitation

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 20 Jan, 2016 - 02:54

Dear Coogee Meditators

In ad dition to the regular meditations we offer we also have bi-weekly Dharma study. It follows on after the Sunday morning sit and it runs from 9 until 10.30 am

If you want to learn more about Buddhist teachings you are very welcome to join. We do ask that you commit to each series and we are about to commence a new one based on the book above (more information and link to a film clip...

Candradasa

Buddhafield 2016!

From Community Highlights on Tue, 19 Jan, 2016 - 18:15

Buddhafield 2016!

From Community Highlights on Tue, 19 Jan, 2016 - 18:15

Satydarshin over at Buddhafield has provided this most excellent graphic overview of the events planned so far in 2016.

Download and keep!

Further information
www.buddhafield.com/festival
www.buddhafield.com/gea
www.buddhafield.com/retreats

Christine

Earth Metta – A Buddhist Response to Environmental Issues (March 18-20, 2016)

From Earth Metta Sangha on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 22:58

Earth Metta – A Buddhist Response to Environmental Issues (March 18-20, 2016)

From Earth Metta Sangha on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 22:58

Earth Metta – A Buddhist Response to Environmental Issues

With Sahajatara & Amalaketu

March 18 - 20 | £155/135

”The gift you carry for others, is not an attempt to save the world but to fully belong to it. It is not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer to the world, before you make it a better place.” - Bill Plotkin

Although at the time of the Buddha there were none of the...

Candradasa

Sitting Deeply, Being At Ease...

From Online Meditators on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 20:36

Sitting Deeply, Being At Ease...

From Online Meditators on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 20:36

It’s harder than it sounds, right? :) And yet we know it’s possible, every day… We might sit more deeply in our experience, we might move towards a greater sense of ease with how we carry ourselves through the world.

Over the next weeks we’ll be continuing our collective practice of simply sitting together, being with each other in meditation around the world, bearing each other in mind and in heart.

Come and sit with us in...

Candradasa

The Complete Works Retreat Podcast

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 19:43

Satyalila reporting from an inspiring retreat at Adhisthana in the UK for a group of volunteers who came together to help Vidyadevi and Kalyanaprabha with editorial work on the first two of the twenty-seven volumes that will make up the entire Complete Works of Sangharakshita. And to to collectively dedicate their efforts - spiritual and practical.

We hear about some of what’s involved - from the intricacies of critical diacritics in Pali and Sanskrit terms, to the considerable detective...

Amaradaya

Bed and Breakfast Retreat in Nottingham

From Clear Vision Trust on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 16:30

Bed and Breakfast Retreat in Nottingham

From Clear Vision Trust on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 16:30

In November 2015, Nottingham Buddhist Centre hosted its 5th B&B retreat, with sangha members opening up their homes to friends and strangers from other Triratna sanghas.

Centre Chair Arthabandhu tells us how the event is growing year upon year!

Prajnaketu

Dublin Young Buddhists - the Culmination of Metta

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 15:17

Dublin Young Buddhists - the Culmination of Metta

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 18 Jan, 2016 - 15:17

Friday 22nd January, 7.30pm Dublin Buddhist Centre

This month the Young Buddhist Group will continue with exploring the great Pali text of the Karaniya Metta Sutta - the Buddha’s teaching on Metta. This month we will focus on the culmination of metta, looking at Metta’s boundless and limitless nature.

There will be an opportunity to meditate, hear some Dharma, discuss your thoughts, chats, drink tea and most importantly, to develop friendliness and friendship.

All levels of experience welcome.

For ages 35 and under.

Dhivan Thomas Jones

From Buddhist economics to a new Dharma politics

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 15 Jan, 2016 - 10:59

From Buddhist economics to a new Dharma politics

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 15 Jan, 2016 - 10:59

The following is an important and original combination of a review of Vaddhaka’s book The Buddha on Wall Street, and an article exploring some political implications of Vaddhaka’s Buddhist critique of neo-liberal capitalism.

A review-article of Vaddhaka Linn, The Buddha on Wall Street, Windhorse Publications, Cambridge, 2015

by Manjusiha

Bryan Magee, in Confessions of a Philosopher, says, of Schopenhauer and Hegel, ‘I do not think anything in the whole history of philosophy compares with this invective by one now world-famous philosopher against another’ (1998, p.466). The feud between philosophers...

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