This year’s UK and Ireland Area Order Convention was a resounding success, with almost 500 Order members attending in person and many more zooming in across the world or catching up on YouTube. We’re particularly happy the Convention went so well as we had a new organising team with Lilasuri stepping in as Project Manager and Utpaladhi as Assistant to the International Order Convenors, both ordained in 2021 and organising what was also their very first convention!...
A series of talks exploring ritual and imagination from Punyamala and Samantabhadri. These talks were recorded at Taraloka during a retreat for women training for ordination.
Talk Two: Bringing the Heart Back Home: An overview of ritual in the Dharma Life
Punyamala explores the importance of ritual and its potential for transformation. She considers ritual as a dramatized form of meditation involving body, speech and mind in which we can come into alignment with the beyond.
A series of talks exploring ritual and imagination from Punyamala and Samantabhadri. These talks were recorded at Taraloka during a retreat for women training for ordination.
Talk Three: Being with the Transcendental through Imagination and Ritual
Samantabhadri explores our deeper imaginative experience of the physical world, of beauty and of the transcendental. This arises in ritual and devotion through more subtle experience of the body, speech and mind and thus within gesture and movement, words and mantra, atmosphere and transcendental presence.
A series of talks exploring ritual and imagination from Punyamala and Samantabhadri. These talks were recorded at Taraloka during a retreat for women training for ordination.
Talk Four: Ritual and the Path of Beauty
This talk explores the Shubha vimoksa-mukkha – the beautiful as a gateway to Awakening. Punyamala clearly sets out Sangharakshita’s vision of the path of beauty. She makes practical suggestions about how to walk in beauty, especially in a ritual context.
A series of talks exploring ritual and imagination from a retreat led by Punyamala and Samantabhadri. These talks were recorded at Taraloka during a retreat for women training for ordination.
Talk Five: A Personal Talk
In this talk Sinhacandra explores her personal relationship to shrines, ritual and devotion. In doing so she explores her love of ritual and how building shrines are a funadamental part of her practice.
A series of talks exploring ritual and imagination by Punyamala and Samantabhadri. These talks were recorded at Taraloka during a retreat for women training for ordination.
Talk Six: Prajnaparamita: Perfect Wisdom and Perfect Beauty
Samantabhadri explores the Perfection of Wisdom tradition, its vision and its apparent decline. She then evokes the utterly beautiful translucent figure of Prajnaparamita, the mother of all the Buddhas, seemingly arising and passing away, honoured, forgotten and re-discovered.
A series of talks exploring ritual and imagination from Punyamala and Samantabhadri. These talks were recorded at Taraloka during a retreat for women training for ordination.
Talk One: Carving Ourselves Anew: Reflections on the practice of devotion
Punyamala explores the significance of devotion in the Dharma life and the importance of cultivating it. She suggests various ways to express devotion.
