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From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 8 Mar, 2013 - 10:49Sudarshanaloka is a Triratna Buddhist Community Retreat Centre set in a remote valley high above Thames, on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. It’s famous for its beautiful stupa that provides an inspiring focus for the whole site. And they’re seeking someone to join their community and team and contribute to the momentum of creating a more active retreat centre. Padmadasi writes - “It is not a cushy lifestyle at Sudarshanaloka but we have a beautiful environment, warmer weather than the...
From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Wed, 6 Mar, 2013 - 14:50Khemavassika will be our guest speaker tonight at Sangha Night, Wednesday, March 6th, offering a talk on the Eight Worldly Winds.
The Eight Worldly Winds is a teaching from the Buddha that reminds us that ‘life is full of ups and downs, circumstances – large or small – that can trigger craving or aversion, hope or despair, longing or fear, or that can elicit from us a more creative and noble response: generosity, kindness or understanding.’ Gain and loss,...
From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 5 Mar, 2013 - 14:50Karuna was formed in 1980 as the Triratna Buddhist Community’s response to the suffering of India’s Dalit community. For 30 years, Karuna has worked with some of South Asia’s most disadvantaged people, sending over £1 million every year to support Dalit and tribal communities fulfill their potential through our social and Dharma projects.
We currently have a full time vacancy for a Head of Fundraising
Karuna Trust is a dynamic Buddhist charity working in partnership with grassroots led...
Since most of the talks from women on the Order Convention weren’t recorded or had technical issues, we thought we’d take the opportunity to recreate as a conversation Dassini’s talk focussing on the history of women practising the Dharma in Scotland. A thoroughly absorbing look at the relationship between the genders in days gone by, and at a landscape and its effect on a Buddhist community in a very particular kind of country…
Another ‘Buddhist Voices’ episode from the end of the Triratna Buddhist Order Convention 2013 at Bodh Gaya in India. A pretty fantastic discussion with two ‘dharinis’ - young, inspired Indian Dharmacharinis who speak boldly about the challenges faced by women practising the Dharma in India.
A wonderful conversation too around issues of leadership and taking one’s place in the sangha in order to come alive and help others. Very exciting listening!
As part of our ‘Buddhist Voices’ series we’re delighted to present this extended interview with Dharmacharini Jnanasuri, one of the very first Indian women to be ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order and a pioneering Dharma worker for many years, before and since joining our community.
The interview focusses initially on the historic mass conversion to Buddhism in 1956 by the Scheduled Caste people of Maharashtra, conducted by their great leader Dr. Ambedkar...
From Community Highlights on Tue, 5 Mar, 2013 - 06:00On Sunday 24th February at noon, Sangharakshita arrived at Adhisthana to join the community, a little earlier than originally intended…
From Aryaloka Computer Education India on Mon, 4 Mar, 2013 - 07:34This is the trailer for our first animated movie. We have been working on it since 2011. It is based on the life of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. The DVD will be launching soon in the month of Oct-2013.
