On Wednesday 26th August, Adhisthana will be celebrating the anniversary of Bhante Sangharakshita’s birthday, as will be happening throughout Triratna. I find it hard to believe that only two years ago Bhante was still alive and would have been enjoying the celebrations at Adhisthana – probably with a vegan coffee and walnut cake that he would share with all those around him.
It is also the day when the Triratna centres continue with the 108 Year Puja that happens every year. I...
In this piece completed on 22 January 2018, Sangharakshita recalls rainbows from his childhood days through to his Going Forth in 1947 and most recently as appeared over Adhisthana on his ninetieth birthday. And he affirms the place of Padmasambhava - the Rainbow-bodied one - in the life of the Order from the very beginning, and explains that a remark he made in 2009 about a re-founding of the Order “can only be in...
The Buddhist Centre Online is officially 5 years old this month! We first started conversations about what to do with Triratna’s web presence in 2008 and launched some limited public test spaces in 2011, gradually adding social media channels for the project and starting to experiment with content for it all. But it wasn’t till January 2013 that we launched the site as it is today, and we’re going to mark our first big birthday each month with a series of looks...
At the end of last weekend’s ‘Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful’ weekend to celebrate Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday, Amalavajra was able to present Bhante with the money to fund his Complete Works!
By Munisha on Tue, 26 Aug, 2014 - 18:00Our founder and teacher, Urgen Sangharakshita, celebrates his 89th birthday today. The event falls on the first full day of the European Women’s Order Convention, being held at Adhisthana.
(The pictures are from Adhisthana where today the Dharmacharini Order Convention presented him with an 89th birthday cake. And a recent image of Bhante with a gift of a bowlful of waterlily flowers.)
