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Vishvapani on air

By Munisha on Mon, 19 May, 2014 - 15:43
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Vishvapani on air

By Munisha on Mon, 19 May, 2014 - 15:43You can hear Vishvapani’s Buddha Day/Wesak “Thought for the Day” on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme.
Read the text or listen to the broadcast (2 mins)

He also recently too part in an interview and phone-in on Australian radio, with reference to his book, Gautama Buddha.
Listen to the 30-minute programme.
Triratna News
Triratna News

BBC features Dalit woman awarded human rights award

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Apr, 2014 - 18:57
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BBC features Dalit woman awarded human rights award

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Apr, 2014 - 18:57Last week India’s prime minister compared the plight of India’s Dalits to that of black South Africans under apartheid. “Even after 60 years of constitutional and legal protection there is still social discrimination against Dalits in many parts of the country.”

Marking this, the BBC radio programme Woman’s Hour this week featured an interview with the Dalit campaigner Ruth Manorama, who won a human rights award last month for her work with Dalit people, especially women...
Triratna News
Triratna News

Vishvapani on the BBC

By Munisha on Tue, 18 Mar, 2014 - 00:03
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Vishvapani on the BBC

By Munisha on Tue, 18 Mar, 2014 - 00:03Vishvapani has been busy on the BBC again - and elsewhere. You can catch up with him on the internet.

On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme’s Thought for the Day Vishvapani discusses the speech precepts and the importance of listening for the health of modern society.

Marking the Christian period of Lent, Vishvapani was one of three speakers discussing the spiritual significance of wilderness on Beyond Belief, a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme.
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Triratna News
Triratna News

Triratna on the BBC

By Munisha on Thu, 6 Mar, 2014 - 01:57
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  • Dassini
  • Subhadramati
  • Vishvapani

Triratna on the BBC

By Munisha on Thu, 6 Mar, 2014 - 01:57Today we bring you news of three excellent British Triratna broadcasters, new and old, on BBC national radio.

A recent news report on BBC Radio Four’s PM programme related how the teaching of mindfulness has come to the British parliament, and featured Subhadramati of the London Buddhist Centre.

In the same week Glasgow Buddhist Centre Chair Dassini was the faith guest on BBC Radio Two’s ‘Good Morning Sunday’ last week, talking about Buddhism, mindfulness,...
Glasgow Buddhist Centre
Glasgow Buddhist Centre

Good Morning Sunday

By Dassini on Sun, 2 Mar, 2014 - 12:29

Good Morning Sunday

By Dassini on Sun, 2 Mar, 2014 - 12:29Here’s a link to Dassini, from the Glasgow Buddhist Centre, talking to Hardeep Singh Kohli about Buddhism and meditation. The conversation starts just under 40 mins into the show. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03wp23w
Triratna News
Triratna News

Buddhism and Violence on the BBC

By Candradasa on Sun, 25 Aug, 2013 - 12:03

Buddhism and Violence on the BBC

By Candradasa on Sun, 25 Aug, 2013 - 12:03This week on BBC Radio 4, the religious discussion programme “Beyond Belief” considered the topic of Buddhism and Violence, in the light of the recent Buddhist violence against Muslims in Burma. Curious about the role of Buddhist neo-fascists? Listen online.
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Triratna News

Vishvapani broadcasts on Buddhist-Muslim violence in Burma

By Munisha on Sat, 29 Jun, 2013 - 07:34

Vishvapani broadcasts on Buddhist-Muslim violence in Burma

By Munisha on Sat, 29 Jun, 2013 - 07:34Vishvapani, member of the Triratna Buddhist Order, is one of the religious voices on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4’s flagship daily morning news programme, reaching six million listeners a week.

Along with writers from several other major faiths, he regularly writes and reads the Thought for the Day - a three-minute topical piece from a faith perspective.

Vishvapani writes:
‘When things happen, such as the anti-Muslim violence in Burma, I think it is important that other...

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