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Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

DISCOVERING THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF TRIRATNA’S FOUNDER
SATURDAY 6TH – WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

Get to know the man at the heart of Triratna!

Join us for five days of practice, dialogue, storytelling and contemplation as we explore the life and teachings of Sangharakshita, the founding teacher of the Triratna Buddhist Community. Through talks, meditation and discussion we will trace how one man’s journey—from post-war Britain to...
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Alexbeard

Do you struggle to integrate your “spiritual life” into your work life?

From Future Dharma on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 12:31
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Do you struggle to integrate your “spiritual life” into your work life?

From Future Dharma on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 12:31

Join us live on July 10!

Do you struggle to integrate your “spiritual life” into the rest of your life, particularly your busy work life? It’s a challenge for many people just like you who want to practice a life of mindfulness and kindness.

In the next full moon session, on July 10th,...
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Candradasa

Great Ocean (Part 2): Affinity

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 21:58

Great Ocean (Part 2): Affinity

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 21:58

Arriving back in England Sangharakshita formed a friendship with Terry Delamare, who worked in advertising. Their brief but devoted companionship was an antidote to the mid 60s world of British Buddhism and they shared a love of travel. After its partial decriminalisation Sangharakshita embarked on a couple of homosexual relationships.

The film covered Bhante’s return to England and the founding of the Order. I thought it was a brilliant piece of work covering some painful and sensitive topics in an informative, helpful

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Viriyalila

Health of Danakamala

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:30

Health of Danakamala

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:30

Dear Order Members,

As you may already know, Danakamala, based in Portsmouth, NH USA, has been living with multiple medical challenges for some time now. He started dialysis early this spring and is currently experiencing a complication from one of the devices they inserted in his arm a few weeks ago. This resulted in a serious blood infection that we are now learning has most likely led to osteomyelitis (infection of bone) in his mid back. Further...
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Smritiratna

Death of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:03

Death of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:03

Dear Order Members,

Dharmachari Rijudaya from Falkirk, Scotland, died peacefully in hospital on Sunday 22nd June 2025 at 11.15am UK time. His sister Shirley-Ann and his personal nurse were with him when he took his last breath. I arrived 80 minutes later, having driven in from Dhanakosa. Kamala and his preceptor Dharmapala arrived soon after and we chanted verses of blessing. He had been talking with them both the previous day and was at peace, letting...
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Sudaka

Our New Shrine room

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 08:37

Our New Shrine room

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 08:37

Hi all. 
 

to liberate our living quarters and create a dedicated Shrineroom which will serve us well whilst we continue to fundraise for the larger project of the conversion of the back patio into a Sacred Space we have renovated the downstairs garage into a wonderful luminous meditation space. 
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Health of Moksacara

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 11:07

Health of Moksacara

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 11:07

Dear Order members

I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend Moksacara, (Registered spelling Mokshachara) who is part of the Cambridge UK Sangha, has been suffering for months with pancreatic cancer, and it now appears to have spread further. She has just recently had a prognosis – it could be 8 to 12 weeks, but that is the best case scenario and it is likely to be sooner, maybe much sooner as she is now extremely thin. She has been...
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Abhayaka

Health of Gunapala

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 10:52

Health of Gunapala

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 10:52

Dear Order Members,

As you may already know Gunapala has been living with Pulmonary Fibrosis for the past couple of years.

We want to let you know that there has been a marked decline in Gunapala’s health over the past few days. He remains at home in Elgin in Scotland, lovingly surrounded by his wife Maitrihridaya, his daughters Eva, Alice, and Stella, and many close family friends.

We are all sending our love and holding him in our hearts. Please keep Gunapala and his family in...
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Centre Team

Dhamma In a Time of Climate Crisis (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

Tejopala likens the current global climate crisis to a village with a fire that threatens everyone in it and asks what a community of monks living in such a village might do in such circumstances. He also draws on the advice given by Urgyen Sangharakshita in his talk given in 1984 called ‘Buddhism, World Peace and Nuclear War’ as to how Buddhists should act to address an overwhelming existential threat, in which Bhante urges civil resistance. This...
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Smritiratna

Health of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 09:38

Health of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 09:38

Dear Order Members,

Rijudaya from Falkirk in Scotland, UK, was admitted to hospital yesterday and diagnosed with sepsis. He had recently learned that secondary cancers had broken out and he may only have months to live. Now the doctors are saying he may only have hours or days —possibly even weeks; they cannot tell for sure. But he doesn’t have long to live.

Maitrisattva visited this afternoon and chanted the Heart Sūtra and...

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