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Public ordinations at Hsuan Tsang Retreat Centre, Bordharan, India

From Order Connection on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 22:03

Public ordinations at Hsuan Tsang Retreat Centre, Bordharan, India

From Order Connection on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 22:03

Dear Order Members,

Jaibhim

I am delighted to announce that the following men have been publicly ordained yesterday (20th October 2019) at Hsuan Tsang Retreat Centre, Bordharan, India.

Public Preceptor: Adityabodhi

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: A Dharma That Includes Passion and Beauty

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 14:00

How can we have a whole life of value and of meaning?

Subhadramati explores the essential integration of arts and asceticism that Sangharakshita struggled to find in his early years as a monk.

From the talk Beauty and Discipline, part of a series for Dharma Night focusing on Urgyen Sangharakshita’s unique contribution to Buddhism. London Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Sadayasihi

Responding to the Burning World

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 13:19

In July 2019 Satyalila gave a series of three talks in Bristol - ‘Responding to the Burning World’. Each talk takes a classic Buddhist parable or sutta as its starting point - the Burning House, the Raincloud and the Two Arrows and explores how these Dharma teachings can help us to develop the resilience to respond creatively to the world as we find it today.

Weaving poetry with classic Dharma teachings, each talk concludes with a brief exploration of six...

Windhorse Publi...

Meditation is ‘a whole way of being in the world’: an interview with Paramananda

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 12:21

Meditation is ‘a whole way of being in the world’: an interview with Paramananda

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 12:21

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the well-loved and highly respected meditation teacher, Paramananda, about his latest book, The Myth of Meditation. Here’s a transcript of excerpts from the interview.

In the title of the book, why do you describe meditation as a myth?

Paramananda: I can’t really give you a better answer to that than the subtitle [restoring imaginal ground through embodied Buddhist practice]. It was an attempt to relocate meditation in what I understood its original setting to be, which is a...

Sadayasihi

Pan-American Ordinations in Mexico / Ordenaciones Panamericanas en México

From Triratna News on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 10:57

Pan-American Ordinations in Mexico / Ordenaciones Panamericanas en México

From Triratna News on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 10:57

Estamos muy contentas de informarles que las siguientes mujeres recibieron su ordenación pública el día 20 de Octubre en el Centro Budista de la Ciudad de México.

We are delighted to let you know that the following women received their public ordination on the 20th October in the Buddhist Centre in Mexico City.

Paula Michelangelli se ha convertido en Abhayasara, nombre Sánscrito cuyo significado es: ‘Ella cuya naturaleza es la valentía (de Amoghasiddhi).’
Paula Michelangelli becomes Abhayasara, a...

Parami

Pan-American Ordinations in Mexico / Ordenaciones Panamericanas en México

From Order Connection on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 10:27

Pan-American Ordinations in Mexico / Ordenaciones Panamericanas en México

From Order Connection on Mon, 21 Oct, 2019 - 10:27

Queridos miembros de la Orden / Dear Order Members,

Estamos muy contentas de informarles que las siguientes mujeres recibieron su ordenación pública el día 20 de Octubre en el Centro Budista de la Ciudad de México.

We are delighted to let you know that the following women received their public ordination on the 20th October in the Buddhist Centre in Mexico City.

Paula Michelangelli se ha convertido en Abhayasara, nombre Sánscrito cuyo significado es: ‘Ella cuya...

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Centre Team

Watch the Mexican Ordinations Livestream Here!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 20 Oct, 2019 - 14:36

Watch the Mexican Ordinations Livestream Here!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 20 Oct, 2019 - 14:36

Updated: view picture and clips on Instagram

The ordinations will be live streaming on Sunday 20th of October at 1pm local time / 2pm EST / 7pm UK / 8pm CET / 11.30pm India / 5am Sydney (Monday 21st) / 7am Auckland (Monday 21st).

La ceremonia pública se llevará a cabo en el Centro Budista de la Cuidad de México el día 20 de Octubre a las 13 horas hora local.

The public ordinations will be live here, as...

Vishvapani

Bidding Farewell to Harold Bloom

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 19 Oct, 2019 - 19:09

Bidding Farewell to Harold Bloom

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 19 Oct, 2019 - 19:09

Here is a new appreciation of the critic and writer Harold Bloom, who died on October 14th 2019.

Vishvapani is a writer, broadcaster and Buddhist mindfulness teacher. His writing can be found at Wise Attention.

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The sadness I feel at learning of the death, aged 89, of the great literary critic Harold Bloom, is softened only by my incredulity that he was living at all; that is, living in a modern world to which he seemed so alien....

Vishvapani

Harold Bloom: the Embattled Canon and the Experiential Critic

From Western Buddhist Review on Sat, 19 Oct, 2019 - 20:26

Harold Bloom: the Embattled Canon and the Experiential Critic

From Western Buddhist Review on Sat, 19 Oct, 2019 - 20:26

This is a guest post by Vishvapani, re-published here from an early issue of The Western Buddhist Review.

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The Western Canon
By Harold Bloom
Macmillan, London 1994, pp. 567

1. Introduction: contemporary criticism’s questions and answers
What should be our central question in approaching literature? The celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom proposes one: What is literature for? This question may sound obvious, but it is not one with...

Saddhammapradip

Dhammacharini Retreat - Oct 19 - Milerapa

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Sat, 19 Oct, 2019 - 16:32

Dhammacharini Retreat - Oct 19 - Milerapa

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Sat, 19 Oct, 2019 - 16:32

Dhammacharini retreat led by Dhni. Karunamaya from 15th to 20th Oct 19. On Subject Milerapa. Attended by 28 Dhammacharini. Thanks for Ranjit for good photo.

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