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The Triratna Buddhist Order turned 50 on the 7th of April 2018. The Dharma is alive amongst our 2,000+ Order Members across the globe, in many forms.<\/strong><\/p>\n Triratna is founded on a radically traditional vision \u2013 what does that mean in practice? What does that really look like, feel like, \u2018taste like\u2019? This fiftieth birthday is an ideal time to bring together a diversity of voices to reflect on the often messy, vibrant reality of living a Dharma-life and co-creating a new Buddhist tradition. Fifty Years, Fifty Voices has recorded conversations with a range of Order Members for an exhibition, on-line and at Adhisthana in 2018.<\/p>\n We hope, like the songs of the early followers of the Buddha, this gathering of voices will be an inspiration to practitioners in future times.\u00a0This project presents short excerpts from each \u2018voice\u2019 but over time the interviews will be released as full-length podcasts.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/thebuddhistcentre\/50Voices” admin_label=”About Video” _builder_version=”4.23″ max_width=”1440px” module_alignment=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ disabled_on=”|on|on” admin_label=”Video + Blurb mobile” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”rgba(123,110,103,0.12)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row module_class=” et_pb_row_fullwidth” _builder_version=”4.16″ width=”89%” width_tablet=”80%” width_phone=”80%” width_last_edited=”on|desktop” max_width=”89%” max_width_tablet=”80%” max_width_phone=”80%” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” make_fullwidth=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/thebuddhistcentre\/50Voices” admin_label=”About Video” _builder_version=”4.23″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text admin_label=”About Text” _builder_version=”4.23″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Triratna Buddhist Order turned 50 on the 7th of April 2018. The Dharma is alive amongst our 2,000+ Order Members across the globe, in many forms.<\/p>\n Triratna is founded on a radically traditional vision \u2013 what does that mean in practice? What does that really look like, feel like, \u2018taste like\u2019? This fiftieth birthday is an ideal time to bring together a diversity of voices to reflect on the often messy, vibrant reality of living a Dharma-life and co-creating a new Buddhist tradition. Fifty Years, Fifty Voices has recorded conversations with a range of Order Members for an exhibition, on-line and at Adhisthana in 2018.<\/p>\n We hope, like the songs of the early followers of the Buddha, this gathering of voices will be an inspiration to practitioners in future times.\u00a0This project presents short excerpts from each \u2018voice\u2019 but over time the interviews will be released as full-length podcasts.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23″ text_font_size=”20px” header_3_line_height=”1.5em” max_width=”720px” module_alignment=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The idea for Fifty Years, Fifty Voices crystallised in the Colwall Coffee lounge when Satyalila and Lokeshvara met in February 2017.\u00a0 Since then the Triratna (Order Office) Trust and Adhisthana Trustees have decided to support the project. Part of the money is from a legacy by Dhivati<\/a>. There\u2019s an Editorial Board of Lokeshvara, Nagabodhi and Vidyamala. Satyalila was supported for about 4 months to coordinate the project, record, gather and edit the interviews. Candradasa is the Technical Director.<\/p>\n Candradasa & Sanghadhara heroically organized and recorded seven interviews in the midst of all their other work at the Bodh Gaya convention. Amalavajra\/Jayararaja and Aryavacin self-recorded interviews. Dhiramani, Emma Sohlgren, Itir Binay, Malini, Moksanandi, Simone Moore and Upeksapriya carried out interviews. Steph Delany and Zoe Lim helped with transcribing interviews. Rijupatha designed this website. Dhammarati designed the library exhibition, with design assistance from Simhanada, and Yashodeva helped to hang it at Adhisthana.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the last 50 years, members of the Order have been testing Sangharakshita\u2019s teachings, just as the Buddha taught – \u00a0\u2018as a goldsmith tests gold in the fire\u2019 \u2013 in their lived <\/em>experience. \u00a0Sangharakshita\u2019s understanding of the Dharma is profound, multi-dimensional and, from some perspectives, simple.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t make it easy to fully understand or to practise.\u00a0 While the Sangharakshita Complete Works<\/em> will ensure that what he actually said<\/em> is preserved and contextualised, the \u2018Fifty Years, Fifty Voices\u2019 project offers the start of a kind of \u2018living analogue\u2019 or counterpart to that.\u00a0 It records (and can enable reflection upon) some of the lived experience of those who have devoted their lives to putting Sangharakshita\u2019s teachings into practice.<\/p>\n A \u2018hologram\u2019 of the Order: <\/strong>The \u2018Centrality of Going for Refuge\u2019 is a distinctive emphasis<\/a>\u00a0of Triratna and pivotal for the Order.\u00a0 In practice, Order Members approach this \u2018centre\u2019 as if from a 360 degree circumference, starting from very different places, with different conditioning and different strengths. As we gather a range of \u2018voices\u2019 from around that circumference, we aim to evoke a kind-of \u2018living-hologram\u2019 of the Order in the middle.<\/p>\n Reflecting on conditionality in our collective experience:\u00a0 <\/strong>As Vessantara noted in his \u2018Fifty Years, Fifty Voices\u2019 interview: \u201c\u2026the more of people\u2019s early experiences of Triratna we gather, the more we\u2019ll understand the conditioning forces which have formed Triratna which are still playing out in different ways.\u201d \u2018Reflecting on conditioned co-production in our experience,\u2019 is a practice Sangharakshita has recommended many times.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We\u2019re living at a precious time when we have the majority of the founding members of the Order still alive. They\u2019ve had substantial direct contact with Sangharakshita and have been practising for decades. And they won\u2019t be around forever. We\u2019ve lost Anjali, Vajragita, Alaya, Mallika, Surana and Jinananda, to name a few. We can\u2019t afford to hang about! If we want to capture the experiences and perspectives of our first generation of \u2018elders\u2019, we need to act.<\/p>\n We also need to record the voices of the younger generations of the Order and the \u2018not so well known voices\u2019 as well. Satyalila crowdsourced suggestions for the 50 voices for this project and a repeated request was to hear those of \u2018quiet unsung Order Members just getting on with their practice\u2019. You may know some of those\u2026<\/p>\n This project is just a beginning. The longer-term aspiration is to set in motion a new \u2018habit\u2019 in the Order. A positive habit of recording and reflecting collectively <\/em>on the years (and decades) of Dharma practice we have done. And what we\u2019ve learned. So if you\u2019d like to help ensure more voices are \u2018captured\u2019 please see our \u201cIntroduction, Invitation & Kit\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 We have the potential to archive such recordings, so that they can be edited and shared as resources permit \u2013 like a living analogue of Bhante\u2019s many recorded Dharma teachings.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fifty Years, Fifty Voices Project The Triratna Buddhist Order turned 50 on the 7th of April 2018. The Dharma is alive amongst our 2,000+ Order Members across the globe, in many forms. Triratna is founded on a radically traditional vision \u2013 what does that mean in practice? 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How the project came about & who\u2019s involved<\/h3>\n
Fifty years of Testing Sangharakshita\u2019s Teachings in the \u2018Fire\u2019 of our Experience<\/h3>\n
A Crucial Time<\/h3>\n
Fifty Voices is just the start\u2026<\/h3>\n