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Short Documentary - Buddhafield Festival

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:54

Short Documentary - Buddhafield Festival

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:54A short documentary by the excellent Clear Vision team on the Buddhafield Festival 2012, held at the Blackdown Hills near Taunton, UK. A festival of music and dance, meditation and Buddhist teachings, workshops, veggie food, friendship and mud. (And sometimes sun.)

Watch Clear Vision on YouTube and Vimeo

N.B. this video contains a little nudity.

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Dancing Buddhas - The Story of the Buddhafield Festival (Video)

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:44

Dancing Buddhas - The Story of the Buddhafield Festival (Video)

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:44And here’s the original video, from Daniel Dobbie at angelfish films.

angelfish on vimeo

“Dancing Buddhas is a 30 minute film about the team of people who help to build one of the UK’s most eco-friendly and inspiring Buddhist led festivals. We go behind the scenes of this drink and drug-free festival, see the wide variety of music, dance, yoga and creative workshops on offer and we try to understand why Buddhism is...

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Dancing Buddhas - The Story of the Buddhafield Festival (Radio Edition)

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:36

This is the rather wonderful audio (a bit like a radio piece in its own right) from a great video by Daniel Dobbie of angelfish films telling the story of what it takes to put on the Buddhafield Festival. A great introduction…

Daniel says: “Dancing Buddhas is a 30 minute film about the team of people who help to build one of the UK’s most eco-friendly and inspiring Buddhist led festivals. We...

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Buddhafield Through The Years

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:15

Buddhafield Through The Years

From Community Highlights on Mon, 20 May, 2013 - 17:15This week we’re also going to be bringing you some of the sights and teachings from Buddhafield on video! The Buddhafield Festival and other events attract a lot of folk. And these days, what with mobile phones, tablets and laptops, we have quite a collective record of the events. There are many little jewels on YouTube illuminating the years. This video is one of the earliest, from 1996.

To go deeper into the Buddhafield experience,...

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Padmavajra on the 'Buddhafield' in Buddhist Mahayana Tradition

From Community Highlights on Sun, 19 May, 2013 - 18:59

If you wonder why Buddhafield is called that, we thought you might like a little bit of the deep Dharma behind the name!

Here are some extracts from Padmavajra’s classic talk series from 2004 on the Diamond Sutra in which he looks at the Buddhist Mahayana tradition of the creation of Buddhafields as part of the Bodhisattva’s activity.

These are taken from talks 3 and 8. Listen to the whole series

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Buddhafield - A New Going Forth by Kamalashila (print-version)

From Community Highlights on Sun, 19 May, 2013 - 16:29

Here’s a print-friendly version of Kamalashila’s essay on the history and relevance of Buddhafield within the wider Triratna Community and Buddhist tradition itself.

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Buddhafield - A New Going Forth by Kamalashila (eBook size)

From Community Highlights on Sun, 19 May, 2013 - 15:57Kamalashila has been the President of Buddhafield since the 1990s, taking part in the community in many ways and generally being a strong friend to the whole project. Here he updates his sense of Buddhafield’s distinct place in and contribution to the Triratna Buddhist Commmunity. A good place to start in learning about this remarkable development within the world of contemporary Buddhism.

Download the print edition here

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Guidance on how to become successful in life !

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sat, 18 May, 2013 - 20:23

Guidance on how to become successful in life !

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sat, 18 May, 2013 - 20:23

In one month Karate Camp, PTP organised verious guidances activities to motivate participants to become ‘responsible civilian’ in their life. In the last week Amrutasiddhi guided on “Importance of Respect in Karate Life”.

Aryaketu [Director of Aryaloka Computer Education] guided on “how to become successful in life”. All the participants enjoyed...

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Buddhafield Week On The Buddhist Centre Online - Part 1

From Community Highlights on Fri, 17 May, 2013 - 20:56

Buddhafield Week On The Buddhist Centre Online - Part 1

From Community Highlights on Fri, 17 May, 2013 - 20:56Over the next seven days or so on The Buddhist Centre Online we’re celebrating one of the most significant developments in the Triratna Buddhist Community to happen in the last 20 years. Buddhafield is more than just an annual Festival (though a quite amazing one!) - it’s a distinctive, radically alternative way of living in and relating to the world. And, in the run-up to their new Green Earth Awakening Camp, we want to...

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Meeting Subhuti in Snowdonia

From Community Highlights on Thu, 16 May, 2013 - 15:13

Meeting Subhuti in Snowdonia

From Community Highlights on Thu, 16 May, 2013 - 15:13A great introductory interview with Subhuti, one of Sangharakshita’s first disciples, in his home hermitage in Wales where he spends part of the year… With some lovely guitar music by Vidyaruci.

This video has had the sound adjusted from earlier versions to improve audibility.

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