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From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Mon, 9 Feb, 2015 - 02:54

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Mon, 9 Feb, 2015 - 02:54It has been one year since the first edition was launched, and we have had many requests for how to run an Eight Step Recovery Meeting. These Eight Step Meetings have been pioneered in India, United Kingdom , USA and Canada.

Below we suggest a meeting format that has been tried and tested. Many people have benefited from these meetings and we hope you will too. We have suggested several types of meeting, while always including the...

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Open Invitation - Dhamma Talk by Dhammacharini Vajratara

From Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha, Nagpur (North) on Fri, 6 Feb, 2015 - 17:29

Open Invitation - Dhamma Talk by Dhammacharini Vajratara

From Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha, Nagpur (North) on Fri, 6 Feb, 2015 - 17:29We are glad to invite you all to attend the talk of Dhammacharini Vajratara (UK) on Thursday 12th Feb. 2015 at Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha, Mahendranagar, Nagpur at 6.30 p.m. near Water Tank at Dhammapal Buddha Vihar !
For any information contact : tejadhamma [at] gmail.com
For call : + 91 9422138727

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Visit of Sheffield Buddhist Center's pilgrims

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Fri, 6 Feb, 2015 - 17:08

Visit of Sheffield Buddhist Center's pilgrims

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Fri, 6 Feb, 2015 - 17:08

On Sunday 1st Feb. 2015; Sheffield Buddhist Center’s pilgrims visited to People’s Karate Do (PKD) run by PTP at Labour Welfare Office Hall, Indora, Nagpur. Dhammachari Amoghavansha and Dhammacharini Satyajyoti guided to the Karate boys & girls on this ocassion. Tejadhamma introduced with PTP’s...

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New book by Sangharakshita: Metaphors, Magic and Mystery

From Triratna News on Fri, 6 Feb, 2015 - 12:43

New book by Sangharakshita: Metaphors, Magic and Mystery

From Triratna News on Fri, 6 Feb, 2015 - 12:43Sangharakshita’s latest book, Metaphors, Magic and Mystery, is now available from Windhorse Publications.Timed to celebrate the opening of Adhisthana’s Sangharakshita Library last month, it’s an anthology on the theme of words.

The book’s editor, Vidyadevi, writes: “It was through reading that Sangharakshita first realised that he was a Buddhist. He has had a great deal to say about words, as this collection shows. For very clear advice on how to approach all the reading opportunities that Dharma...

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Gathering Wisdom While We May - The Opening of the Sangharakshita Library

From Community Highlights on Wed, 4 Feb, 2015 - 00:04

Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order, has long dreamed of starting a new library to house his collection of 11,000+ books on Buddhism, the Dharma and literature (including extensive reference and poetry collections). Vidyadevi, one of the people who helped make it happen, introduces the new library as it finally opens its doors. Her passion for this project and her love of books is both infectious and challenging as she speaks about a library with its eyes...

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Ordination in Berlin, Germany

From Triratna News on Tue, 3 Feb, 2015 - 10:59

Ordination in Berlin, Germany

From Triratna News on Tue, 3 Feb, 2015 - 10:59At a public ordination ceremony held at 2pm on Sunday 25th January at Buddhistisches Tor Berlin, Claus-Wilhelm Klinker became Achalabandhu: “Steadfast, unshakable friend”.

(The ‘a’s and the ‘u’ are short; the emphasis is on the fourth syllable.)

His private preceptor was Amogharatna and his public preceptor Padmavajra.

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

Dhammalata

The Fish Basket

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 3 Feb, 2015 - 01:07

The Fish Basket

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 3 Feb, 2015 - 01:07There’s a story in the Buddhist tradition about a woman who carries her basket of fish to and from market. It’s a long journey and one day it takes longer for her to sell her fish.Due to it getting dark and the dangers of the road a friend in a nearby flower shop offers for her to spend the night on the floor of her shop. That way she can walk home safely the following day.

But she...

Dhammalata

Full Moon Puja This Wednesday Night

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Sun, 1 Feb, 2015 - 23:07

Full Moon Puja This Wednesday Night

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Sun, 1 Feb, 2015 - 23:07Sorry about late notice but just keen to let you know we’ll be having our second full moon puja down on the Coogee Headland at Dolphin Point this Wednesday evening.

Meet at the headland at 7.30 pm

Moon rises at 7.52 pm

Padmadakini will lead the puja – if it’s cool / cold bring warm clothes and blanket

I’ll bring cushions

Much metta

Dharmalata

Ujumani

La Communauté bouddhiste Triratna – un bouddhisme occidental

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Sat, 31 Jan, 2015 - 20:25

La Communauté bouddhiste Triratna – un bouddhisme occidental

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Sat, 31 Jan, 2015 - 20:25

Bernard Stevens, un philosophe et chercheur de l’université de Louvain-la-Neuve, vient de publier aux Éditions L’Harmattan La Communauté bouddhiste Triratna – un bouddhisme occidental.
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Vajraguptā on Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

From Norwich Buddhist Centre on Sat, 31 Jan, 2015 - 13:02

Vajraguptā on Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

From Norwich Buddhist Centre on Sat, 31 Jan, 2015 - 13:02The fifth and final in our series of short Dharma talks by Vajraguptā. Here she talks briefly about why she is drawn to Dilgo Khyentse, one of Sangharakshita’s own teachers, and how important he is to her as a teacher.

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