| The Buddhist Centre

Kamalashila

THE DANCE of KURUKULLE Sadhana Retreat 11-17 November

From Order Dharma on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 - 12:44

THE DANCE of KURUKULLE Sadhana Retreat 11-17 November

From Order Dharma on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 - 12:44

Register here https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsc-isqz0uHtQJgO1DVRrjEE7j9Zb22Y67

For all upcoming retreats including registration links go here https://kamalashila.co.uk/dharma-materials

Another Kurukulle retreat using the sadhana I compiled from materials Sangharakshita gave me in 2005. The name is a regional variant of the more usual Kurukullā that came, it seems, from local Tibetans using the vocative case ‘O Kurukulle’ as though it were the nominative. It’s how Bhante received it anyway, from Dilgo Khyentse back in the day, along with others like the Jambala practice.

In...

Read more about THE DANCE of KURUKULLE Sadhana Retreat 11-17 November

Kamalashila

RESCHEDULED Qualities of Karuna with Kamalashila - this weekend

From Order Dharma on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 - 11:54

RESCHEDULED Qualities of Karuna with Kamalashila - this weekend

From Order Dharma on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 - 11:54

Due to me getting Covid, and getting over it, this event has been RESCHEDULED for the coming weekend, 3-5 November.

Register here for…
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAucemvrTMoG9SRamqfExXfi5TngP7…

The Qualities of Karuņā and Anukampā

An online Weekend Meditation Retreat with Kamalashila
3 - 5 November

For all with three years’ experience of meditation - Order members very welcome.

No charge. Dana Requested

Starts 8pm Friday 27th October, continues with meditation / teaching sessions through Saturday & Sunday 10-1pm, 4-6pm, 8-9pm. Ends 9pm...

Read more about RESCHEDULED Qualities of Karuna with Kamalashila - this weekend

kamalashila

RESCHEDULED Qualities of Karuna with Kamalashila - this weekend

From Online Meditators on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 - 11:48

RESCHEDULED Qualities of Karuna with Kamalashila - this weekend

From Online Meditators on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 - 11:48

The Qualities of Karuņā and Anukampā

An online Weekend Meditation Retreat with Kamalashila
3 - 5 November

For all with three years’ experience of meditation - Order members very welcome.

No charge. Dana Requested

Starts 8pm Friday 27th October, continues with meditation / teaching sessions through Saturday & Sunday 10-1pm, 4-6pm, 8-9pm. Ends 9pm...

Caroline I P

A Second Renaissance? Part 1

From Adhisthana on Tue, 31 Oct, 2023 - 12:10

A Second Renaissance? Part 1

From Adhisthana on Tue, 31 Oct, 2023 - 12:10

“It has been said that the renaissance that would be brought about by the discovery, in the nineteenth century, of the treasures of oriental literature, would be incomparably more glorious than that which had been ushered in during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the recovery of the classics of Greece and Rome.”

So begins Sangharakshita’s lecture ‘The Glory of the Literary World’, delivered at the launch of Tharpa Publications and his book The Eternal Legacy, on the 29 th of August...

Caroline I P

Today we remember Sangharakshita

From Adhisthana on Mon, 30 Oct, 2023 - 17:54

Today we remember Sangharakshita

From Adhisthana on Mon, 30 Oct, 2023 - 17:54

Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and movement. Glimpse the events in the lead up to his funeral and for those who were there, remember his funeral from five ago.

Suryaprabha

Death of Urgyen Sangharakshita

From Lights In The Sky - living dharma on Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 - 13:29

Death of Urgyen Sangharakshita

From Lights In The Sky - living dharma on Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 - 13:29

A good friend has just died. Death is in the air. Part Four of the Great Ocean series languishes on the bench. And so I gave myself up to play, in just a couple of hours I found the footage, laid in the music and found myself very moved. I might refine it at some point.

Suryaprabha

Peter Woodcock

From Lights In The Sky - living dharma on Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 - 12:57

Peter Woodcock

From Lights In The Sky - living dharma on Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 - 12:57

Tribes and Individuals. Peter Woodcock, artist and writer, who has just died was good friends with many people in a number of different ‘tribes’. This was the last question in an 80 min. interview we made with Peter in conjunction with some BBC colleagues gathering material about the criminal purges of homosexuals in the 50s and 60s. Peter became a Dharmamitra within the Bristol sangha.

Suryaprabha

The Buddhist Idea of Rebirth

From Lights In The Sky - living dharma on Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 - 12:14

The Buddhist Idea of Rebirth

From Lights In The Sky - living dharma on Thu, 19 Oct, 2023 - 12:14

I came across this piece as I was scanning through some footage I’d been asked (and paid) to film in 2016 for Thomas Kaiser from Norway who was interviewing a number of people at Adhisthana. Thomas has kindly given me permission to share this gem of exposition.

Davidrey

Mid Essex Buddhist Centre Grand Opening

From Mid Essex Buddhist Centre on Tue, 10 Oct, 2023 - 10:17

Mid Essex Buddhist Centre Grand Opening

From Mid Essex Buddhist Centre on Tue, 10 Oct, 2023 - 10:17

The MEBC has been in existence since 2015 and we moved into our new premises in April 2023.

It was a real pleasure to see so many friends at our Grand Opening in Chelmsford on 24th September.

Āryasāra, our current chair invited Vanarājī, the previous Chair to cut the red ribbon and officially opened the Centre.

We are very grateful to Mahamati who dedicated the Centre to the three Jewels and treated us with a wonderful talk around Sangharakshita’s poem: the Four gifts.

The day ended joyfully...

Caroline I P

Science and Buddhism

From Adhisthana on Wed, 4 Oct, 2023 - 11:03

Science and Buddhism

From Adhisthana on Wed, 4 Oct, 2023 - 11:03

Ratnaprabha recently led an over-subscribed retreat at Adhisthana on Science and Buddhism. He will be releasing a series of articles on the topic which you can read on Adhisthana’s blog as well as Ratnaprabha’s personal website. If you missed the first retreat, there is another in 2024.

Science and Buddhism can be seen as self-contained universes, apparently complete in themselves. Each is a very extensive, coherent worldview, worked out over many centuries. They are the greatest collective cultural achievements...

Pages