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Public Ordination at Padmaloka

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 22:20

Public Ordination at Padmaloka

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 22:20

We’re delighted to announce that Michael Montgomery becomes Padmabhadra:

He whose goodness is like a lotus.

Privately ordained by Padmavajra and publicly ordained by Surata

With metta,

Padmabhasa,

Padmaloka Guest Master
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Padmabhasa

Public Ordination at Padmaloka

From Triratna News on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 22:11

Public Ordination at Padmaloka

From Triratna News on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 22:11

We’re delighted to announce that Michael Montgomery becomes Padmabhadra:

He whose goodness is like a lotus.

Privately ordained by Padmavajra and publicly ordained by Surata

With metta,

Padmabhasa,

Padmaloka Guest Master
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Padmabhasa

Public Ordination at Padmaloka

From Order Connection on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 20:29

Public Ordination at Padmaloka

From Order Connection on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 20:29

We’re delighted to announce that Michael Montgomery becomes Padmabhadra: 

‘He whose goodness is like a lotus’.

Privately ordained by Padmavajra and publicly ordained by Surata

With metta,

Padmabhasa,

Padmaloka Guest Master
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Amoghavajra

The Death of Advayamati

From Order Connection on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 17:54

The Death of Advayamati

From Order Connection on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 17:54

Dear Dharmafarers,

This morning I received a telephone call from Deborah Creed with some sad news.

She told me that at 11am this morning Advayamati died at the St Helena Hospice in Colchester.

Yesterday Advayamati had been vomiting and in much more pain. He asked Penny and Jaiya, who were there at the time, to leave him so that he could withdraw a bit and go inward. It appeared he was moving into a...
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Dhammarati

'A Mysterious, Indefinable Spirit'

From Order Connection on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 08:56

'A Mysterious, Indefinable Spirit'

From Order Connection on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 08:56

UK and Ireland Men’s Order Weekend, 4th - 6th November at Adhisthana

To Dharmacharis in the UK and Ireland,

” …There is something about the movement, the Order and even about me that is not easily definable. There is a touch of something that cannot be buttoned down, something that cannot in the end be defined. Even the desire to button it down or define it is a mistake …  Everyone will need to take care of that rather...
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Dharmabyte: Creating a Dharma Context in Everyday Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 6 Oct, 2022 - 06:00

The Dharma is only truly meaningful if it allows us to live more fully and if we are able to take it with us into the final moments before our death. There is nothing more practical than this. Mahasraddha explores what this means for us.

From the talk The Dharma as Context for Living and Dying given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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Fifty Years, Fifty Voices: Khemajoti (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Wed, 5 Oct, 2022 - 17:03

“We used to do rituals in the basement of the shop, invoking Padmasambhava while we made egg sandwiches”

Khemajoti’s Annals:

In 1968 I was living in my birthplace, Swindon UK, with my parents and younger brother in the house we’d moved into in 1960. I was finishing primary school where I’d been a bright, happy child (top of the class) and moving to secondary school where I met children who were more of a match for me. I was moving into the...
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Hello from the International Order Office

From Order Connection on Wed, 5 Oct, 2022 - 14:36

Hello from the International Order Office

From Order Connection on Wed, 5 Oct, 2022 - 14:36

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!...
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Ritual and Imagination Retreat 2022 (2 of 6)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 4 Oct, 2022 - 00:00
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.
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Ritual and Imagination Retreat 2022 (3 of 6)

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Tue, 4 Oct, 2022 - 00:00
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.
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