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Creating a World We Want to Live In: The Transformative Energy of Buddhist Ethical Life

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 27 Jun, 2024 - 22:08

Creating a World We Want to Live In: The Transformative Energy of Buddhist Ethical Life

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 27 Jun, 2024 - 22:08

This summer we’ll be exploring the creative aspects of Buddhist ethics, drawing on a book by a Triratna Order member, Subhadramati — It’s Not About Being Good: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Ethics (2013). As we make our way within a world context that is challenging in so many ways, Subhdramati’s framing inquiry seems relevant. She describes having become disillusioned, first with her childhood Christianity and later by the advanced physics she pursued at university, as ways to understand why...

Viryabodhi

Testi rituali buddhisti in italiano

From Italiano on Mon, 24 Jun, 2024 - 10:48

In questa pagina si trovano la Cerimonia della Dedicazione e il Triplice Puja tradotti in italiano. Un ringraziamento speciale a Valentina, Jnanarajni e Carla per la traduzione (giugno 2024).

Here is the revised Dedication Ceremony in Italian, and also the Threefold puja. A special thanks to Valentina, Jnanarajni and Carla, June 2024.

File Name	Size
la cerimonia della dedicazione	258.91 KB
il tripicle puja	207.26 KB
I refugio e i precetti in italiano	27.6 KB

Viryabodhi

Buddhist Ritual Texts in Hebrew – טקסטים פולחניים בודהיסטים בעברית

From Hebrew Translation Group on Mon, 24 Jun, 2024 - 09:09

Here’s the three most important Triratna texts in Hebrew translation, plus the 5 and 10 positive precepts.

Many thanks to Prakashika for her work on them – and you can also hear her reading them here.

The texts were updated June 2024.

File Name	Size
טקס הקדשה – dedication ceremony	442.23 KB
המחסות וכללי המוסר – refuges and precepts	444.98 KB
פוג'ה בשלושה פרקים – threefold puja	446.57 KB
טקסים עבריים – Hebrew Ceremonies	173.47 KB
The 5 and 10 positive precepts	232.96 KB

Suddhayu

Transforming the Heart with Kindness

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 21 Jun, 2024 - 14:20

Transforming the Heart with Kindness

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 21 Jun, 2024 - 14:20

Transforming the Heart with Kindness — a 4-week course on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8pm, June 26th to July 17th at 73 Court Street, Portsmouth

Meditation practice helps us to develop contentment, clarity, integration, concentration, and a sense of peace. Whether you’re just looking to find some stillness in your life, or to directly explore the nature of consciousness, this class is a great way to begin!

In this introductory meditation workshop we will explore the Buddha’s teaching of kindness or metta, generally as a living...

Suddhayu

BUDDHIST RECOVERY MEETING

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 21 Jun, 2024 - 14:17

BUDDHIST RECOVERY MEETING

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 21 Jun, 2024 - 14:17

The Portsmouth Buddhist Center is offering a weekly Buddhist Recovery Group at 73 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH. The time will be Mondays from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. The meetings will be facilitated by Dharmasukta, an order member in the Triratna Buddhist Community and a person in long term recovery.

The Buddhist Recovery meetings will focus on Buddhist teachings, traditions and practices that can be helpful to people recovering from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. There will be...

akasasuri

Ordinations from Akashavana

From Triratna News on Thu, 6 Jun, 2024 - 16:19

Ordinations from Akashavana

From Triratna News on Thu, 6 Jun, 2024 - 16:19

Dear Friends in the Order,

We are happy to announce the Public Ordinations of the following women at Akashavana Retreat Centre in Spain on 5th June 2024.

Public Preceptor - Kulanandi:

Alana Terry becomes Prasadasara (second, fourth and fifth ‘a’ long)
Registered spelling: Prasadasara
Meaning “She whose strength or essence is brightness, grace, and kindness”
Private Preceptor: Kalyacitta

Rachel Woodburn becomes Pasannacitta (final long ‘a’)
Registered spelling: Pasannachitta
Meaning “She who has a clear, bright, confident mind”
...

ratnadharini

Chair's Letter – May 2024

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 17:46

Chair's Letter – May 2024

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 17:46

Dear Order Members and friends,

Thanks to Purna for his evocative letter last month from Sudarshanaloka, the ‘land of beautiful vision’, in New Zealand; I’m very much looking forward to being there for the first time in a few months.

A few weeks ago I was at another of our retreat centres: Akashavana, ‘the forest retreat of luminous space’, in Spain. It was an informal visit as I hadn’t been there for many years and wanted to connect with the...

Shantavira

Shabda June 2024

From Order Connection on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 12:05

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
eBook Shabda .MOBI – This format is now deprecated, but this can still be used on older Kindle devices, and some older eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
PDF Shabda – read with any PDF reader
HTML Shabda (zip file) – unzip, and then read with any web browser
Print Shabda:

File Name	Size
ePub (for eBook readers, Smartphones, and Tablets)	2.04 MB
mobi (for older Kindle devices only)	1.92 MB
PDF for Digital (Computers and eReaders)	2.13 MB
HTML (web browsers)	203.3 KB
PDF for printing	1.14 MB

Read more about Shabda June 2024

Viryabodhi

Translation News — May 2024

From Triratna Translations on Fri, 24 May, 2024 - 10:27

TRANSLATION NEWS — MAY 2024

from the International Triratna Translations Board (ITTB)

PLEASE READ the attached pdf for full story.

Read about: who received translation grants in 2024 from the ITTB and the first translation into Romanian; the wonderful Translation Pages at TBCO and a book of Buddhist Ceremonies in Many Languages; and marvel at a few book covers of funded projects.

Translation grants in 2024
Below you can see what languages and projects received grants in 2024,...

File Name	Size
Translation News – May 2024	780.62 KB

Maitriyogini

The journey towards the ultimate

From Adhisthana on Sun, 12 May, 2024 - 12:10

The journey towards the ultimate

From Adhisthana on Sun, 12 May, 2024 - 12:10

Only the walker who sets out toward ultimate things is a pilgrim. The pilgrim resolves that the one who returns will not be the same person as the one who set out. Pilgrimage is a passage for the reckless and subtle. The pilgrim—and the metaphor comes to us from distant times—must be prepared to shed the husk of personality or even the body like a worn-out coat.

- Andrew Schelling

Pilgrims week is back, with the same epic ambitions. A continuous 108 hours of circumambulation,...