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Community Champion - Birmingham Opportunity

By dharmashalin on Wed, 1 May, 2024 - 15:37

Community Champion - Birmingham Opportunity

By dharmashalin on Wed, 1 May, 2024 - 15:37

Community Champion in Birmingham

Now here’s an opportunity! A bit of an adventure, even!

We have three communities around the Birmingham Buddhist Centre. We’re looking for an Order member to move in to one of our men’s communities – rent-free for two years – and invest some time and energy helping the communities to thrive and expand.

South Birmingham is a great place to live, and we have a well-established Buddhist Centre with an extensive and supportive sangha. So there should be plenty of encouragement and...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Womens' Community Opportunity near the Birmingham Buddhist Centre

By Nandavajra on Thu, 12 Jan, 2017 - 08:33

Womens' Community Opportunity near the Birmingham Buddhist Centre

By Nandavajra on Thu, 12 Jan, 2017 - 08:33

Womens’ Community Opportunity near the Birmingham Buddhist Centre

This is an exciting and unusual opportunity for women who are dedicated to their practice of the dharma, and who are interested in living in a Buddhist community to take this deeper in a more intense, collective context.

We are two GFR mitras, both in our mid-twenties and are looking to have conversations with other mitras, order members, and friends that are interested in community living. We are looking to set up a small community near the...

Triratna News

New Chair for Birmingham Buddhist Centre

By Munisha on Wed, 13 Apr, 2016 - 11:57

New Chair for Birmingham Buddhist Centre

By Munisha on Wed, 13 Apr, 2016 - 11:57

Birmingham Buddhist Centre, UK, has a new Chair. Maitrisara writes:

“At the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, we have been welcoming our new Chair, Singhamati, and saying goodbye and thank you to Samacitta, our Chair for the last eight years. Samacitta is returning to Australia to care for her elderly mother.

The handover took place on on Triratna Day, 10th April, within the context of a sevenfold puja led by Paramartha, our Centre President and attended by nearly one hundred people.

On Friday 8th April, we spent...

Triratna News

Birmingham Museum's new Buddhist display

By Munisha on Wed, 27 Jan, 2016 - 09:41

Birmingham Museum's new Buddhist display

By Munisha on Wed, 27 Jan, 2016 - 09:41

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG), UK, launches its new Faith in Birmingham Gallery with a VIP event on 4th February.

The centrepiece will be the museum’s longstanding star, the Sultanganj Buddha, discovered by workers building a railway in India in 1862, but as Samacitta found, the museum’s collection features one or two more Buddhist surprises. She’s Chair of Triratna’s Birmingham Buddhist Centre.

“For the past year BMAG’s development of this...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Birmingham Buddhist Centre seeks Maintenance and Improvement Supervisor

By lokabandhu on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 11:44

Birmingham Buddhist Centre seeks Maintenance and Improvement Supervisor

By lokabandhu on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 11:44Job Vacancy at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre

Part-time
Maintenance and Improvement Supervisor
To start Spring 2014.

Modest financial support package available (based on a two-and-a-half day working week).

Deadline for completed applications 28 February 2014.

Following the departure of Siddhimala to Dhanakosa after three and a half years, we are looking for another Triratna Buddhist to join the mixed team of eight Order members and Mitras running our Centre here in Birmingham.

As members of...

Triratna News

Outreach Chronicles in Birmingham

By lokabandhu on Sun, 14 Jul, 2013 - 06:00

Outreach Chronicles in Birmingham

By lokabandhu on Sun, 14 Jul, 2013 - 06:00Triratna’s Birmingham Buddhist Centre sits in the middle of a cluster of smaller towns and cities in the UK’s Midlands - Wolverhampton, Redditch, Warwick, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield… And now they’ve got their own Buddhist ‘outreach’ worker, in the form of Dharmashalin. A local Mitra led the fundraising, he concluded that the best contribution he could make was to stay in his well-paid job and support someone else to go out and teach. And so he did!

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Triratna News

Newly refurbished Birmingham Buddhist Centre celebrates 25 years - you’re invited!

By lokabandhu on Wed, 26 Sep, 2012 - 05:32

Newly refurbished Birmingham Buddhist Centre celebrates 25 years - you’re invited!

By lokabandhu on Wed, 26 Sep, 2012 - 05:32Samachitta, chair of Triratna’s Birmingham Buddhist Centre, writes with news of their 25^th Anniversary celebrations and a Grand Re-Opening - both coming up soon! The Centre has seen extensive building work over the past year and has been substantially altered inside, restoring the old front door as the new main entrance, among many other improvements. She says -

“This year, we are marking the 25^th anniversary of the Birmingham Buddhist Centre. New and old friends will come...

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