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Celebrating at Adhisthana

By Munisha on Sun, 9 Apr, 2017 - 15:24
  • Bhante on the shrine
  • FutureDharma pledge card offerings
  • FutureDharma appeal
  • Cross-generational Q & A
  • Cross-generational Q & A
  • Dhammarati's 'Desert Island Discs'

Celebrating at Adhisthana

By Munisha on Sun, 9 Apr, 2017 - 15:24

It was gloriously sunny spring weekend here in the Herefordshire countryside and around 50 guests, many of them local sangha members, came to join the Adhisthana community in their local celebration of Triratna’s first 50 years.

Among various activities, it was moving and inspiring to hear Dhammarati interviewed by Parami about his life, intersected with some of his favourite music, emulating a...
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Happy 50th birthday, Triratna!

By Munisha on Sat, 8 Apr, 2017 - 22:22
  • 50th birthday flags at Adhisthana

Happy 50th birthday, Triratna!

By Munisha on Sat, 8 Apr, 2017 - 22:22

This weekend Triratna sanghas around the world are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Triratna Buddhist Community’s foundation (as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) in London, UK, on the evening of Friday 7th April 1967.

That evening is well described by Sangharakshita near the end of his volume of memoirs, Moving Against the Stream: the birth of a new Buddhist movement, which also gives an account of the context from which the FWBO emerged.

At 6.10 drove round to Vihara with Terry.

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