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.
In this talk, Khemabandhu takes us on a journey into the terrifying cremation grounds which Padmasambhava deliberately sought out. The facing of our deepest fears presents us with and incredible opportunity for spiritual development, but how do we summon up the courage necessary to do so?
