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Triratna America - Dayamudra: Jai Bhim International

From Community Highlights on Thu, 20 Jun, 2013 - 20:25

Dayamudra runs Jai Bhim International out of San Francisco, working with Dalit communities in India to escape the stigma of caste through education. This is a great interview where her natural passion for a cause that’s dear to her heart really shines through. An excellent introduction to the injustices of ‘untouchability’ in India and to how to move beyond it. Practically inspiring words from an inspired lady!

Jai Bhim’s website: http://jaibhiminternational.org

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Triratna America - Relaunching Vajra Bell Online

From Community Highlights on Thu, 20 Jun, 2013 - 13:05The Vajra Bell happily joins The Buddhist Centre Online this month in celebrating the Triratna sanghas of the U.S. - and the rest of the North American continent as well! We’d like to begin by welcoming you to our new home on The Buddhist Centre, and tell you a little bit about ourselves.

What started as a small black and white quarterly newsletter at Aryaloka Buddhist Center many moons ago has grown and evolved over the...

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Triratna America - Live Feed From Aryaloka of Dhardo Tulku's Talk

From Community Highlights on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 22:50

Triratna America - Live Feed From Aryaloka of Dhardo Tulku's Talk

From Community Highlights on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 22:50An interesting chance to tune into a live Dharma event at Aryaloka right now (Wednesday 7pm EST). Dhardo Tulku Rimpoche live on Google Hangout: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/c31ec3b50f25a72d9407e92782ab1656871d7…

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Triratna America - Relaunching Vajra Bell Online

From Vajra Bell on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 20:25

Triratna America - Relaunching Vajra Bell Online

From Vajra Bell on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 20:25Vajra Bell: Voices from Triratna North America

The Vajra Bell happily joins The Buddhist Centre Online this month in celebrating the Triratna sanghas of the U.S. - and the rest of the North American continent as well! We’d like to begin by welcoming you to our new home on The Buddhist Centre, and tell you a little bit about ourselves.

What started as a small black and white quarterly newsletter at Aryaloka Buddhist Center many moons ago...

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Triratna America - Viriyagita on Dhardo Rimpoche and Meeting His Tulku

From Community Highlights on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 18:02

Back in April we did an interview with Viriyagita from the east coast of the US about her recent trip to India and her meeting with the recognised tulku of Dhardo Rimpoche, one of Sangharakshita’s eight main teachers, from the Gelug tradition. An inspiring visit and an excellent discussion about Viriyagita’s renewed vision of building a stupa to Dhardo Rimpoche at Aryaloka Buddhist Retreat Center in New Hampshire.

This week,...

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Triratna America - 2013 Gen X Dharma Teachers Conference, San Diego

From Community Highlights on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 14:55

Triratna America - 2013 Gen X Dharma Teachers Conference, San Diego

From Community Highlights on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 14:55Over on Triratna News, Padmadharini writes about Triratna’s presence at the recent Gen X Dharma Teachers Conference. She says - “This month, a collection of about sixty teachers - a combination of both monastic and lay, from many of the Buddhist lineages - met over 4 days at Deer Park Monastery in San Diego, USA. All of us were born between 1960 and 1980 - hence the the Gen X of the title…

A...

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Buddhafield Festival Workshop Programme

From Buddhafield on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 10:58

Buddhafield Festival Workshop Programme

From Buddhafield on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 10:58I think it’s fair to say that the Buddhafield Festival is a workshop-driven event. Whilst many Festivals push the live music as their primary draw — where a workshop programme is a sort of diversion at the edge of the programme — Buddhafield gives our bands equal billing to our workshops. We think that this gives the event a sort of balance, putting the emphasis on participation rather than spectacle.

Part of my job as Buddhafield webmaster is to...

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Triratna America - Viradhamma: North America and Beyond

From Community Highlights on Tue, 18 Jun, 2013 - 20:29

Viradhamma joins us by Skype from the San Francisco Buddhist Center to talk about the many projects he is involved with in North America and abroad.

As a member of the North American men’s ordination training team, he speaks to the challenges and changes the ordination process has experienced in this part of the world and what inspires him about working with the men.

He also talks about his work with the North American...

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Triratna America - Karunadevi: Ordaining Women in North America

From Community Highlights on Tue, 18 Jun, 2013 - 19:49

A great conversation with Karunadevi, my Private Preceptor from San Francisco, and the first American Public Preceptor, about following a vision - one that started when she first encountered our community in the mid-’80s. Shortly after becoming a Mitra, Karunadevi knew that she wanted to help other women practice in the sangha, to be able to become Mitras and eventually join the Order itself…

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Triratna America - Aryaloka Making The Nightly News

From Community Highlights on Tue, 18 Jun, 2013 - 16:15

Triratna America - Aryaloka Making The Nightly News

From Community Highlights on Tue, 18 Jun, 2013 - 16:15And finally on this morning’s historical video theme, an external view of Aryaloka from 2011 byJennifer Crompton of local TV station WMUR, complete with Steve Jobs and George Lucas references!

“Aryaloka is a Buddhist retreat center tucked away in Newmarket, NH. It is a spiritual community based on the ideals of compassion, generosity, and awareness. Jennifer Crompton paid the center a visit and found out there is a lot more than meditation going on…”
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