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Dharmabytes: Dukkha and The Arising of Faith

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 21 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

With inspiring candour, Devamitra speaks from his own experience on the importance of valuing and facing our adversities (duhkha), explaining how that naturally leads into faith, and into the joy of gratitude. He also briefly introduces his new book on his experience as a cross-dressing Buddhist. Excerpted from the talk From Adversity to Gratitude and Beyond given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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A Renovating Virtue – Hartley Woolf and His Alfoxton Film

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 18 Aug, 2023 - 22:13

Alfoxton House in Somerset, England has a long and rich history stretching back over 1000 years. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is where the young William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their great friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped birth the radical new Romantic movement during a magical year there in 1797.

In June 2020, a new Triratna Buddhist community received the keys to this astonishing property set within 52 acres of...
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FBA Podcast: Enlightenment as Experience and Non Experience

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 19 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Saddhanandi riffs off a talk that Sangharakshita gave to the Buddhist Society in 1975 entitled ‘Enlightenment as Experience and Non-Experience’. She reflects on the content as well as the context, just what was happening with these early lectures by Sangharakshita, just six years after the first ordinations. Given on retreat at Adhisthana, 2022.

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Regional Order Convenor - Aug 23

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Sat, 19 Aug, 2023 - 02:11
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Regional Order Convenor - Aug 23

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Sat, 19 Aug, 2023 - 02:11

Regional Order Convenor meeting at retreat center. Led by Dhni Suprabha and others.

Thanks to Mahastambha for images.
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Brahma Viharas - Guidade Meditationer Från Kurs

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Sat, 19 Aug, 2023 - 00:00
Guidade meditationer från kurs i Brahma Viharas på Stockholms Buddhistcenter
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Sanghans kraft i klimatkrisen

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Sat, 19 Aug, 2023 - 00:00
Aryaka talar om sanghans kraft i klimatkrisen.
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Death of Virapriya

From Order Connection on Fri, 18 Aug, 2023 - 22:42

Death of Virapriya

From Order Connection on Fri, 18 Aug, 2023 - 22:42

Dear Sangha brothers and sisters,
 
It is with a heavy heart that we inform you about the passing of Dhammachari Virapriya from Amaravati, Maharashtra. He peacefully died on the 18th of August 2023 at approximately 7:00am at the age of 71. 

Dhammachari Virapriya received ordination on the 25th of May 2014. His private preceptor, Amoghasiddhi played a significant role in guiding his spiritual journey. The public ordination was given by Dhammachari Chandrashil.
 
Dhammachari Virapriya...
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A Renovating Virtue – Hartley Woolf and His Alfoxton Film

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 18 Aug, 2023 - 22:13

Alfoxton House in Somerset, England has a long and rich history stretching back over 1000 years. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is where the young William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their great friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped birth the radical new Romantic movement during a magical year there in 1797.

In June 2020, a new Triratna Buddhist community received the keys to this astonishing property set within 52 acres of...
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Dharmabytes: Let Life Teach Us

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 17 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Singhamati explores the Buddha’s teachings on Wisdom, primarily looking at the three Lakshanas, the three marks of conditioned existence. 

From the talk Being with the Buddha Through Wisdom, the fourth in a series given on retreat at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2012.

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Death of Prajnamata

From Order Connection on Thu, 17 Aug, 2023 - 09:14

Death of Prajnamata

From Order Connection on Thu, 17 Aug, 2023 - 09:14

Dear Friends,

I am very sad to inform you that Dhammacharini Prajnamata passed away on Thursday 10th August around 4.30am at a care home in Pune.

Prajnamata was 89 years old.  She was ordained in 1994 at Bhaja, India. Her Public and Private Preceptor is Srimala. Her name was chosen by Bhante and means ‘the mother of transcendental wisdom’.  Her sadhana at ordination was Avalokiteshvara. 

Today I am writing about her with heavy feelings in my heart, knowing that the source of...

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