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Supporting Girls’ and Women’s Rights to Reproductive Health in Nepal

From Karuna Fundraisers on Tue, 26 Jul, 2022 - 19:27

Supporting Girls’ and Women’s Rights to Reproductive Health in Nepal

From Karuna Fundraisers on Tue, 26 Jul, 2022 - 19:27

A little known area of the work of the Karuna network - the UK, Germany and the USA - is in supporting women’s reproductive rights and other basic rights. 

A common phenomenon across South Asia is a practice of periodically excluding girls and women from participating in their regular life, with no access to public areas. They are locked out of the house to sleep in stables or shacks. This often leads to hypothermia,...

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Maitreyabandhu

PoetryEast with Dara McAnulty

From London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 17:22

PoetryEast with Dara McAnulty

From London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 17:22

Saturday, 30th July, 7.30pm (in-person, watch this space for details of the YouTube Premiere online, coming soon!)

Dara McAnulty is a Northern Irish naturalist, writer and environmental campaigner. In 2015, when just 15 years old, he became the youngest ever winner of the RSPB Medal and received the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing in 2020, after the release of his debut book ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’, which chronicles the turning of his fourteenth year and details his intense connection to the...

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Reading the Heart Sutra.

From Shabda Articles on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 12:32

Reading the Heart Sutra.

From Shabda Articles on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 12:32

One of the major breakthroughs in Heart Sutra studies was made in 2014 by fellow Kiwi, Matthew Orsborn (who published as Huifeng then, so this is how I refer to him here). Since we know that parts of the Heart Sutra are copied from other texts, especially the Large Sutra (25,000 line), we can go and look at those texts and compare the source and copied passages in their different contexts. In doing this, Huifeng realised that the term yǐwúsuǒdégù 以無所得故...

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Dharmabyte: Community Sangha is Vital

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

Going Beyond Duality

How do we go beyond the duality of subject and object, self and other, to experience the true nature of reality? Jnanavaca shares how the practice of sangha is vital in making spiritual progress.

From the talk What Is Sangha & Kalyana Mitrata? Given at London Buddhist Centre as part of the series The Bi-Tendential Value of Being & The Greater Mandala, 2019.

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FBA Podcast: The Power of Love

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 23 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

The Love of Power

Behind this title we find the first Buddhist ethical precept and Sangharakshita’s distinction between operating in the Love Mode and operating in the Power Mode. A beautiful and engaged talk, responsive to her audience, where Kulanandi draws inspiration from the book The Ten Pillars of Buddhism, by Sangharakshita. 

Talk given at Stockholm Buddhist Centre, 2014. 

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Ordination ceremony - 1987

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Fri, 22 Jul, 2022 - 13:21

Ordination ceremony - 1987

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Fri, 22 Jul, 2022 - 13:21

1987 Ordination ceremony image from Late Dh. Surangam collection.

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Vietnamese Bhikhuni Visit

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Fri, 22 Jul, 2022 - 13:14

Vietnamese Bhikhuni Visit

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Fri, 22 Jul, 2022 - 13:14

Vikas from Pune arrange a visit of Vietnamese Bhikhuni to retreat center. 

Late evening visit.

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Fifty Years, Fifty Voices: Rijumayi (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Wed, 20 Jul, 2022 - 15:21

No-one was ‘sugar-coating’ things, or trying to give me priorities I didn’t subscribe to. I think there’s a real framework for transformation in the direction that I was looking for.


Rijumayi’s Annals:

In 1968 I was not yet born.
 
In 1978 I was not yet born.
 
In 1988 I was short. Tearing around on a bike, going to primary school, playing sport and generally surviving childhood.
 
In 1998 I was...

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Dharmabyte: Viewing Each Other with Kindly Eyes

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 20 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

Culagosingha Sutta

Kalyanavaca shares the story of three monks living in harmony with each other, like milk and water blended together.

From the talk entitled Kalyana Mitra given at London Buddhist Centre, 2014.

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Dharmabyte: Contemplating Nature

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 18 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

Appreciating Natural Beauty We seek happiness, but often we find that our desires and aspirations are in conflict. Sangharakshita implores us to appreciate nature for her own sake.

From the talk Nature, Man, and Enlightenment, part of the series Transformation of Life and World in the Sutra of Golden Light, 1976.

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