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Dharmacharini Bhadrachitta 25th January 1930 - 1st April 2014

From Triratna News on Wed, 2 Apr, 2014 - 12:55

Dharmacharini Bhadrachitta 25th January 1930 - 1st April 2014

From Triratna News on Wed, 2 Apr, 2014 - 12:55With great sadness we inform you of the death of Dharmacharini Bhadrachitta at 4.00pm on 1st April, 2014. She was 84 years old and had been ill for over a year with blood cancer.

Bhadrachitta (auspicious, friendly-hearted one) was ordained in 2001 at Il Convento by Anjali (private preceptor) and Sanghadevi (public preceptor). Her sadhana was Amitabha.

She fell a few days ago and broke two vertebrae, went to hospital and then came home to her family in...

Dhammalata

Thirst

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 1 Apr, 2014 - 04:18

Thirst

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 1 Apr, 2014 - 04:18Thirst

Each morning after my meditation I’m reading two pages from a collection of sutras which are credited to be the actual recounted words of The Buddha. He doesn’t pull his punches; they are both beautiful and confronting at different times and sometimes at the same time.

Today he was talking about the fundamental human condition of both suffering and contentment. It’s graphic but he was saying that our thirst, our desire for all sorts of gratification...

tejadhamma

First Time in the life ! - Financial inclusion of women by formation of Self Help Group of Vadaar Community

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Mon, 31 Mar, 2014 - 18:30

First Time in the life ! - Financial inclusion of women by formation of Self Help Group of Vadaar Community

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Mon, 31 Mar, 2014 - 18:30

Vadar Community (tribes) Women got opportunity First time to participate in SHG
Anushri (Coordinator of Women Empowerment Project of PTP) formed Self Help Group of the Vadaar Community Women who are excluded economically and socially. Women are forced to depend on everything in this community. This is first Self Help Group of those women which...

Munisha

International Dharma Teachers' Statement on Climate Change

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Mon, 31 Mar, 2014 - 12:52

International Dharma Teachers' Statement on Climate Change

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Mon, 31 Mar, 2014 - 12:52Signatures are invited for this Statement.

http://www.oneearthsangha.org/articles/dharma-teachers-statement-on-clim…

Rijupatha

Bhante – Poetry, Myth And Imagination

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 30 Mar, 2014 - 20:58

Bhante – Poetry, Myth And Imagination

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 30 Mar, 2014 - 20:58Our FBA Podcast this week, “Bhante – Poetry, Myth And Imagination,” is a talk by Dhammadinna given on the Rainy Season Retreat at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Wednesday 19th February 2014. Dhammadinna speaks about Sangharakshita and his emphasis on Imagination as a key to the spiritual life.

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tejadhamma

Disaster Relief Work in Progress

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sun, 30 Mar, 2014 - 19:19

Disaster Relief Work in Progress

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sun, 30 Mar, 2014 - 19:19

Thank you donors; because of your kind generous donation PTP enabled to support Vadar Community who are most needy & underprivillaged. Those tribes are getting feeling that they are also like others and should enter in the main stream of the society.
Your support helped to get hut/houses to those people !
Thank you so much from the bottom of our...

viriyalila

April 12: Introduction to Meditation

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 29 Mar, 2014 - 13:00

April 12: Introduction to Meditation

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 29 Mar, 2014 - 13:00Our next Introduction to Meditation will be on April 12th, 10-1 pm. In this session we will be teaching the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation. A simple, straightforward meditation practice that develops greater calmness and concentration. Led by Narottama, $40-$20 suggested donation.

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Defining Imagination

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 - 15:25

For our FBA Dharmabyte today we chose an excerpt titled “Defining Imagination” by Subhuti from “Rambles Around the Imagination 1 – Defining Imagination”. Following on from a recent set of conversations with Sangharakshita, Subhuti gives the first in a series of Rambles on the important subject of Imagination. What is imagination and why is it important not just in our spiritual lives but in terms of what it means to...

Carol Robertson

Hidden Gems Newsletter for Croydon Buddhist Centre

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 - 15:12

Hidden Gems Newsletter for Croydon Buddhist Centre

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 - 15:12Now that we have been open for four months we’d like to give you a Spring update on how ‘Hidden Gems’, the new Buddhist Right Livelihood Charity Shop, is doing. The steady stream of fantastic donations have been making all the difference: from the completed works of Terry Pratchet to full length, silver taffeta ball gowns, we’ve had a rich array of donated items. A new locked cabinet is also helping us to display more expensive items more securely such...

lokabandhu

Epic bike ride to raise money for new Melbourne Buddhist Centre

From Triratna News on Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 - 05:42

Epic bike ride to raise money for new Melbourne Buddhist Centre

From Triratna News on Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 - 05:42Jodie Dempster writes from Triratna’s Melbourne Buddhist Centre with news of their fund-raising appeal for a new Centre - and a 3000-kilometre bike ride across Australia. She says -

“The Brunswick-based Melbourne Buddhist Centre has to find a new building. And Saddhavijaya, one of our Order Members, has come up with a novel way of raising funds – a 3000 kilometre bike ride across three states (and the capital for good measure.)

In its nineteen-year life the Centre...

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