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Death of Dhammachari Punyasagar

From Order Connection on Sun, 31 Jul, 2022 - 14:16

Death of Dhammachari Punyasagar

From Order Connection on Sun, 31 Jul, 2022 - 14:16

Dear brothers and sisters in the sangha,

I am very sad to inform you of the death of Dhammachari Punyasagar from Gulbarga. He was 71 years old and was living with his family in Kalaburgi (Karnataka). He was hospitalized for pneumonia treatment on 29th July and died on 30th July around 6.00 pm.

He was a very kind and hard-working man and had good relations in the sangha, He was a chairman of Kalaburgi centres for many years. He was ordained in June...
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FBA Podcast: Live United

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 30 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

Spiritual Friendship in Action

Vidyadaka speaks here on the second part Dhardo Rimpoche’s motto ‘Cherish the Doctrine, Live United, Radiate Love’ by exploring how we actually do this and drawing out deeper aspects of its meaning. Firstly, we need to live united with ourselves, then learn to live united with others, with our teachers and with reality.
Covering themes such as the true individual, spiritual friendship, vertical communication, and renunciation, this talk was given at ...
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People to People Project, Nagpur: 2021-2022 Report

From Triratna News on Fri, 29 Jul, 2022 - 12:32

We are happy to share the People to People Project report 2021-2022.

People to People is a social charity in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Started in 2008 by the initiative of Tejadhamma Khobragade and others, running projects for the upliftment of the underprivileged at Amravati, Bhandara, and Nagpur districts in India. People to People works in the areas of education, the empowerment of women, youths development, culture, and health. At present projects are being run in urban slums...

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People to People Project Report, 2021-2022 (pdf)20.03 MB
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Public Ordinations at Tiratanaloka

From Order Connection on Wed, 27 Jul, 2022 - 21:57

Public Ordinations at Tiratanaloka

From Order Connection on Wed, 27 Jul, 2022 - 21:57

27th July 2022

Dear Order members

We are delighted to announce the names of the seven new Dharmacharinis ordained at Tiratanaloka on the 27th July 2022.

with metta,
Parami and Santavajri
 

Public Preceptor Parami

Alex Carr-Malcolm becomes Maitrikirana,  ( long second ‘i’, dot under the ’n’, long third ‘a’), a Sanskrit name meaning ‘She who is a moonbeam of loving kindness’
Registered spelling Maitrikirana
Private Preceptor Santasiddhi

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Dharmabyte: Going Beyond Ourselves

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 27 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

Friendship in the Spiritual Life

Sudrishti celebrates sangha, community, spiritual friendship with this talk on Kalyana Mitrata. Enlightened beings exemplify unconditional, unlimited love – something we as unenlightened beings can emulate and draw inspiration from to transform our relationships, self and world.

Excerpted from the talk The Good Friend given on Buddha Day at Sydney Buddhist Centre, 2017.

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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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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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