3,000 ordinations

Many of you will have been celebrating Sangha Day this month, in contexts all around the world, and we have much to celebrate as our Order grows.

In 2022 so far there have been 135 people join the Order worldwide. Our most recent ordinations of eight women in Mexico have taken our Order to a significant milestone – we have now had over 3000 total ordinations since the founding of the Order in 1968.
 
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The death of Triratna’s Anathapindika: Lalitavyuha

Dharmachari Lalitavyuha

Born 3rd July 1947
Ordained 8th June 1990
Died 16th November 2022

Some personal reflections from Amalavajra, FutureDharma’s Fundraising Director, and Vajratara, India Dhamma Trust’s Chair

Amalavajra writes:

‘Last week I was with Lalitavyuha at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton, UK, as the combination of pneumonia and Covid stole his last breaths. It was a privilege to sit amongst his loved ones and chanting his yidam Green Tara’s mantra. This donor had become a good friend.

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Death of Vidyasiddhi

Dear Order Members,

Vidyasiddhi died at 8.35pm last night, 20th Novemeber, at the Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge.

His brother Brian and sister Elizabeth were with him holding his hands. He died peacefully without pain. He had been visited over the weekend by various Order friends. He was given messages of love from other Order Members he had known.

Birth: 30th August 1956
Ordained: June 2009
Death: 20th November 2022 at 8.35pm 

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Resignation of Sudhana

Dear Order members

I am writing to let you know that Sudhana has resigned from the Order. Sudhana was ordained by Bhante at Il Convento, Tuscany, in November 1981. As Bhante was his private and public preceptor it now falls to me, as College Chair, to accept his resignation – which I have done after checking with him and some of his Order friends. Sudhana told me that he has been considering this step for some years, discussing it with longstanding friends...