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Public Preceptor Appointment OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:05
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Public Preceptor Appointment OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:05

The College of Public Preceptors is pleased to announce that Dantacitta has been appointed as a Public Preceptor. The correspondent for the process was Maitripala 

You can read more about Dantacitta below.

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I was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and in my younger years enjoyed many walks in the Peak District. These days in nature provided a refreshing break from the council estate I grew up in. A school trip to stay for a weekend in a Buddhist monastery left a deep impression on me...
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Letter from the College of Public Preceptors

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:00
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Letter from the College of Public Preceptors

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:00

This months letter is from Mahamati - Chair of the College of Public Preceptors

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Dear Order members and friends,

Last month forty-four College members gathered for ten days at Adhisthana for our annual international meeting. I invited three of them, who had travelled from distant places, to tell us their experience.

Vijaya from India

I have attended College meetings since 2021. I feel that Bhante is here at Adhisthana, so I feel a very positive energy. Whenever we come here I feel very inspired as many College members

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Döden Som Praktik

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:00
2025 firade vi Sanghadagen och vår andliga gemenskap med särskilt fokus på döden. Var och en av oss förenas av att vi en dag kommer att dö. Sangha/gemenskap ger oss ett sammanhang inom vilket vi kan utforska vad detta faktum väcker i oss samt reflektera djupare över hur vi kan förbereda oss för snarare än undvika det ofrånkomliga.
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What Taraloka REALLY Is: 40 Years of 'A Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Sun, 30 Nov, 2025 - 00:00
In this 40th anniversary celebration, hear Maitrisiddhi evoke what Taraloka really is - beyond mere converted barns. Then hear from all five past and present Chairs of Taraloka, who witnessed between them the whole history of this women's Buddhist retreat centre. Each Chair is rejoiced in, then each one - Sanghadevi, Dayanandi, Saddhanandi, Samantabhadri and Maitridevi - speaks about what happened for Taraloka during her guardianship. This was all part of an Order 'Tara's Realm' celebration puja on the 40th Anniversary Tara Sadhana meditation retreat led by Vijayamala
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The Rise of the Asuras and the Sword of Wisdom (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 29 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Vajragupta offers a Buddhist reflection on the social and political times we are living through. The talk takes the myth of the asuras (the Titan realm on the Wheel of Life) as a way of seeing and understanding the kind of world we are creating. In that myth, the Buddha appears in the realm of the asuras holding a sword. What does that symbolise? Vajragupta suggests it can be seen as a sword of fearlessness, a sword...
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Resignation of Sanghasevaka

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Nov, 2025 - 09:18

Resignation of Sanghasevaka

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Nov, 2025 - 09:18

Dear Order Members,

I have received a letter of resignation from Sanghasevaka/Andreas Fischer from Germany.

Sanghasevaka was ordained on 13th June 2011 in Guhyaloka in Spain and I was his public preceptor.

After checking with his private preceptor, Bodhimitra, I have written back to him formally accepting his resignation and wishing him happiness and success on his chosen path. 

Sanghasevaka wishes to keep his Buddhist name. His letter of resignation is copied below. 

With metta,

Satyaraja

(Please note: All comments and messages of well-wishing received below will be sent to Sanghasevaka after three weeks.)

Dear Satyaraja,

As...
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Bringing Mindfulness More Into Our Lives (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 14:15

In this talk Vadanya explores how paying attention to reality - rather than mental or media noise - can bring our life alive and give us a vivid experience of beauty. But is “being here now” enough to bring real happiness? Or do we need a deeper idea of the meaning of awareness? Excerpted from the talk The Aware Mind Is the Happy Mind given at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2025.
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People Just Want to Be Happy (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:59

Peace, happiness, contentment we all want it, but where and how to find it. The Buddhist tradition would say that it is in how we relate to our experience that either satisfaction or grasping can be found. Does this stand up, how do we do it, what difference does it make in the world. Dharmashalin talks here about the essential problem of life. Excerpted from the talk Finding Peace In a Frantic World given...
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Three Points of Transition (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:04

In this masterly lecture to an American conference audience, Sangharakshita reminds us of the basic conceptual formulation of the Buddha’s enlightenment experience. The twelve negative and twelve positive nidanas (‘links’) represent two trends - reactive and progressive - within the same conditionality. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Twenty-Four Nidanas given as part of the series Two Lectures to a Conference on the Nature of Reality: Buddhism as Transformation, 1994.

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UK & Ireland Combined Order Convention – 19th to 24th August 2026

From Order Connection on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 11:15
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UK & Ireland Combined Order Convention – 19th to 24th August 2026

From Order Connection on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 11:15

Booking for the 2026 UK & Ireland Order Convention is now open. All details via the Convention webpage.

Coming together on Convention is an opportunity for us to gather as a spiritual community, and reconnect with the depth of our shared Going for Refuge in a way that feels right for each of us. It’s an occasion to strengthen friendships, appreciate one another’s practice, and open ourselves to collective inspiration that can nourish and sustain us.

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