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Dharmabyte: Radical Transformation is Possible

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Mar, 2022 - 06:00

Radical transformation is possible if we allow Padmasambhava and all that he symbolizes to touch our lives.  Ratnaghosha encourages us to face our demons, find our cremation grounds, and free up our energies.

From the talk Demons For Every Occasion given at the Padmasambhava Day festival at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2013.

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Ordinations in India

From Order Connection on Sun, 27 Mar, 2022 - 19:04

Ordinations in India

From Order Connection on Sun, 27 Mar, 2022 - 19:04

Dear Order Members,

Here is the list of new order members ordained at Nanded Urgyen Sangharakhita Meditation Centre on the 13th March 

Public Peceptor Chandrashil:

Maroti Ambaji Kadam becomes Vinayadhara - Upholder of discipline 
private preceptor Chandrabodhi

Siddhartha Tukara Lokde becomes Anantmati - Of infinite wisdom
private preceptor Anomadassi

Ishwardas R Punekar becomes Akshayamuni - Indestrucible sage
private preceptor Jnandhvaja

Ranjeet Arun Deshmikh becomes Guhyachaksu - Seceret/Esoteric eye
private preceptor Subhuti

Bhimkiran Prabhu Kamble becomes Vinayarakshits - Protected by discipline
private preceptor Chandrabodhi

Nitin Ajun Ahre becomes Siddhivajra - Vajra of...
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FBA Podcast: Padmasambhava and the King of Tibet

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Mar, 2022 - 06:00

Vajratara offers a provocative, fully engaged and fully engaging take on the Dharma and the challenges that face us on the Path. We approach the great figure of Padmasambhava - the ‘Second Buddha’ - through his famous meeting with the King of Tibet. There’s plenty to consider in this thoughtful interpretation of the central story - with lots of light relief too, as the Refuges are explored with walk-ons from Nirvana (the band!), Samuel Johnson,...
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Mind and Cosmos Part 3

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Sat, 26 Mar, 2022 - 00:00
For almost its whole history, Buddhism has presented teachings not just about the human mind, but about the whole cosmos. In this talk (the second in a series of three), Viryadeva attempts to show why an understanding of traditional Buddhist cosmology is key to an understanding of the Buddha's teachings. He also shows how it has direct, practical relevance to urgent contemporary problems.
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Ordinations in Maharashtra

From Order Connection on Fri, 25 Mar, 2022 - 22:31

Ordinations in Maharashtra

From Order Connection on Fri, 25 Mar, 2022 - 22:31

Dear brothers and sisters in the Sangha,

An ordination retreat is currently being held at Achalabhumi Retreat Centre, Bihali, Maharashtra in India. Seven men will be ordained on the retreat.

Their private ordinations will take place on 27th and 28th March and the public ordinations will take place on 30th March 2022.

With metta,

Nagaketu
 
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Introducing 'The Promise of a Sacred World'

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 23 Mar, 2022 - 07:00

Introducing 'The Promise of a Sacred World'

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 23 Mar, 2022 - 07:00

Dhammamegha here. Every few years we receive a manuscript that has been growing for decades within the author; a book that breaks new ground and offers a fresh and considered engagement with one of the Buddhist classics.

Bhikkhu Anālayo did this with Satipaṭṭhāna, through his translations and commentaries on the four foundations of mindfulness. Ratnaguna and Śraddhāpa did this with practice and awakening in the Pure Land Sutras in Great Faith, Great Wisdom. In 2019 we published David...
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PoetryEast with Claudine Toutoungi and Jane Draycott

From Community Highlights on Tue, 22 Mar, 2022 - 11:12

PoetryEast with Claudine Toutoungi and Jane Draycott

From Community Highlights on Tue, 22 Mar, 2022 - 11:12

Saturday, 2nd April: 19.30pm UK Time
(in-person and live on YouTube)

Claudine Toutoungi is a playwright and poet. Her second poetry collection Two Tongues (Carcanet) won the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize. Claudine’s play Slipping was a Best Play Finalist in the 2015 Audio Drama Awards. Jane Draycott’s Carcanet collections include The Occupant (PBS Recommendation), Over (TS Eliot Prize shortlist), Prince Rupert’s Drop (Forward Prize shortlist) and a translation of the medieval dream-elegy Pearl. She is a Fellow of the...
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It's Not Out There (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 425)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 25 Mar, 2022 - 20:10

Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’ is within us.

We’re joined this week by Buddhist teacher and mentor, Danapriya, author of ‘It’s Not Out There’. Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’ is within us. We are full of these qualities: happiness, love, contentment and more.

In ‘It’s Not Out There’,...
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Centre Team

It's Not Out There (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 425)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 25 Mar, 2022 - 20:10

Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’ is within us.

We’re joined this week by Buddhist teacher and mentor, Danapriya, author of ‘It’s Not Out There’. Most of us constantly look outside ourselves for something: happiness, love, contentment. But this something is not out there. ‘It’ is within us. We are full of these qualities: happiness, love, contentment and more.

In ‘It’s Not Out There’,...

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