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Windhorse Publications turns 50

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 12:30
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Windhorse Publications turns 50

From Windhorse Publications on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 12:30

This year is going to be significant for Windhorse Publications. After 50 years in operation, we have a lot to celebrate!

Back in the 1970s, what is now Windhorse Publications started out as a scattering of right livelihood businesses including typesetters, printers, distributors and publishers. At first, its newsletters and journals were published under the name Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. It then became Windhorse Press in the early 1970s when it began publishing full length books, starting with The Essence...
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Celebration of the life of Viracitta

From Order Connection on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 11:16

Celebration of the life of Viracitta

From Order Connection on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 11:16

Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 11 Park Road, Birmingham, B13 8AB

Sunday 25th February 2024
2pm – approximately 5pm 

Viracitta died at home on 5th January 2024. His funeral will be in Scotland on 31st January – a small event, by invitation only, as he had requested.

We are organising a celebratory event at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Sunday 25th February – in person and online via Zoom.

Viracitta was one of the founders of the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, as well as a former trustee...
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Dharmabytes: Seeing Through Our Views

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 25 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

First in a series of talks on the wisdom of the middle way. Here Bhadra uses the Triratna mandala of practice to find the middle way between the Psychological and spiritual that opens us towards liberation. Excerpted from the talk Finding the Middle Way Between the Psychological and the Spiritual given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2022.

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Saranajaya's health

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 15:31

Saranajaya's health

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 15:31

Dear Friends in the Order,  

I’m writing to let you know about the health of our dear friend in the Glasgow sangha, Saranajaya.  

Saranajaya became seriously ill at the end of August last year. This was followed by a diagnosis of a brain tumour on 9th September, and she was offered a palliative care package at home, where she lives with her husband of 53 years, Suvarnamanas.  

More recently, she was readmitted to hospital at the end of December. She was in hospital for two weeks and...
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Prajnamanas

Death of Akashabhadra

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 14:46

Death of Akashabhadra

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 14:46

Dear friends in the Order,

We are sad to inform you that on 21 January 2024, at approximately 9.30am, Dhammachari Anagarika Akashabhadra passed away. His funeral took place on the afternoon of the same day.

Akashabhadra was ordained on 25 March 1993, with Suvajra as his private preceptor and Subhuti as his public preceptor. He worked in Aurangabad as the superintendent of the Bahujan Hitaya Hostel, Hyderabad (Jetawan Buddha Vihar), and Agra (Maitriya Buddha Vihar), where he...
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Community member wanted for N london mens community

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 16:45

Are interested in Joining a mens community in London?

Aryakaruna is a mens community  in a large lovely house near to Clissold park in North London. We are looking for a mitra or GFR mitra to join us. There are two order members and a GFR mitra as a good basis for sangha in the house . We are a practice based and ‘training’ community with a stress on having a regular meditation practice and involvement with Triratna.

To express an interest...

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Life at Taraloka

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 12:35
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Life at Taraloka

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 12:35

It’s a grey, damp morning with a chill in the air.  But I walk over to the retreat centre thinking, as I often do: ‘How did I get so lucky, that this is my life?’  This isn’t publicity, it’s true.  I arrived at Taraloka in 2009 as a not-very-together mitra.  I got ordained through these conditions, I’ve personally changed so much, and I watch my friends in the community transforming too. 

Still, fourteen years later, I never wonder why I get out of bed...
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Dharmabytes: Taking Impermanence to Heart

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

True wisdom in the Buddhist sense is not book knowledge, but understanding how things really are. The Buddha was always pragmatic in his approach and sought to get straight to the root of suffering. His vision was embedded in conditioned co-production: awareness that things are always coming into being and passing away, and that there are many conditions in play together. Satyajyoti uses the metaphor of the ocean, with many waves arising and passing away, as a...
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Centre Team

FBA Podcast: The Longing For Liberation

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 20 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

In this talk, Vajratara takes us on a vivid journey starting with the Buddha’s exploration of what is the noble quest, moving into personal examples of the ignoble and noble quests in her own life. Vajratara invites us to look at our own motivation, our own noble quest, how to establish a culture of the noble quest in such a way that invites more people to join us on that journey, both through our own practice and...

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