Hi all. With the idea of helping off-setting travel costs we are now offering our retreats with a £200 discount on the original pricing. Please let interested parties know.
Aryajaya and Vajrapriya are currently the joint International Order Convenors (IOCs) for the Order. Aryajaya has held the responsibility since 2018 and would now like to begin the process of handing on the responsibility to another Dharmacharini. Aryajaya would like to hand on the role at the International Convention in India in January 2025.
We are now inviting Order members to participate in the process of finding a new joint IOC...
“All worldly activities are as immaterial as chaff.” So said the Tibetan teacher Tsongkapa. Having explored the Eight Worldly Winds, and their effects upon us; having examined our response and looked at suggestions for ways of working, is there some overarching approach we could adopt? In short, what have we learned, and how can we put it into practice? Excerpted from the talk The Worldly Winds 4: It’s All About Me! by Taranita given...
Here is a recently re-discovered little lost delight - Sangharakshita and Subhuti launching each other’s books and clearly enjoying themselves. Sangharakshita’s in fine humour - and it’s great to hear him read and quote from the bible! Is that a twinkle in his voice?
Talk given at Triratna [FWBO] Day celebrations in 2001.
This term we’ll be treading a path together, one that winds its way through all the corners of our lives – externally, in how we interact with the world, and internally, how we know ourselves.
This is the Ennobling Eightfold Path, which is in truth two intertwining paths, the Path of Vision, when we glimpse the possibility of freedom from our conditioning and a life of unfettered compassion and wisdom. And the Path of Transformation, where we work to change our actions, speech and mind in...
I am delighted to announce that the following eight people from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia will be ordained on a retreat currently being held at Vijayaloka in Australia:
Felicity Bolley, Sue Coyle and Caitlin Scott from Auckland
Cheryl Richardson from Kempsey
Em Ingram Shute, Pam Verrall and Gillian Reffell from Sydney
Talia Eilon from Melbourne
They will be privately ordained on 22nd and 23rd April. The public ordinations will take place on Tuesday 30th April.
Megha, Malini, Sudrishti and Vajrajyoti will be the public preceptors.
We are delighted to let you know the names of the new Dharmacharinis who were publicly ordained at Saddhamma Pradip, Bhaja, in Pune on 25th March 2024.
Public Preceptor Shubhajaya:
Lata Kasabe becomes Vimoksha meaning “Liberated” Private preceptor Abhayavati
Anuradha Kate becomes Vipulratna meaning “One who has an abundance of jewels” Private preceptor Abhayavati
Rohini Sawant becomes Anomacitta meaning “One who has an excellent mind” Private...
Akashamitra takes a look at one of the most difficult trainings offered in this approach. How can we find an opportunity for growth in that most upsetting situation - when someone we’ve trusted lets us down? Excerpted from the talk entitled Training the Mind: Learning From Betrayal, the sixth talk in a series of eight, given at the London Buddhist Centre as part of the 8-part series Training the...
