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Highlights from the 2012 Buddhafield Festival

By lokabandhu on Wed, 18 Jul, 2012 - 17:03

Highlights from the 2012 Buddhafield Festival

By lokabandhu on Wed, 18 Jul, 2012 - 17:03Last Friday Triratna News reported on the opening of the seventeenth Buddhafield Festival - Triratna’s largest annual event outside India. Despite being the wettest-ever, with much of the main area reduced by near-constant rain to a sea of mud, the 2,900 visitors pretty much all had a great time. Check their Facebook page for the latest comments!

Lokabandhu - a veteran of most of the previous 16 Festivals - writes, saying “The Festival was great, as always,...

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Dharma Parlour talks appearing soon on Free Buddhist Audio and VideoSangha

By lokabandhu on Wed, 18 Jul, 2012 - 09:51

Dharma Parlour talks appearing soon on Free Buddhist Audio and VideoSangha

By lokabandhu on Wed, 18 Jul, 2012 - 09:51Hello everyone in the Dharma Parlour group - and (if you were there) I hope you enjoyed the Festival! It was definitely a wet one! But our spirits were unbowed, in fact I think I can safely say we loved it! SADHU to everyone who survived the 17th annual Buddhafield Festival - and you’ll be pleased to know the talks and videos from the Dharma Parlour will be appearing here soon, in fact I’m working on the audio from...

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Buddhafield Festival 2012 Underway!

By Candradasa on Fri, 13 Jul, 2012 - 13:40

Buddhafield Festival 2012 Underway!

By Candradasa on Fri, 13 Jul, 2012 - 13:40The Buddhafield Festival is one of the highlights of any year in the Triratna Buddhist Community’s calendar. It’s a mesmerising, inspiring, deeply moving five-day jamboree of activities in a secret realm in the heart of the English West Country. Rain or shine, it’s an unforgettable experience – a new twist on the classic British summer festivals like Glastonbury. Buddhafield has music, dance, healing spaces, wonderful food, places to talk and discuss and debate and discover – and all...

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Dharma Parlour programme 2012: Doorways to Freedom...

By lokabandhu on Tue, 19 Jun, 2012 - 17:54

Dharma Parlour programme 2012: Doorways to Freedom...

By lokabandhu on Tue, 19 Jun, 2012 - 17:54Theme of the 2012 Dharma Parlour (and the Buddhafield Festival as a whole) is Doorways to Freedom… Here’s what’s confirmed for the programme so far:

* Dhivan, author of a new book on conditionality (called ‘This being, That Becomes’) will be leading study.
* Vajrasara will be giving a talk: Embracing Love.
* Lokabandhu will be hosting the Dharma Parlour and giving a talk: Dharma Doorways and Deadends: Not All that Glitters is Gold.
* Therevadin...

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Triratna International Retreat coming up soon: five reasons not to miss it!

By lokabandhu on Fri, 4 May, 2012 - 05:59

Triratna International Retreat coming up soon: five reasons not to miss it!

By lokabandhu on Fri, 4 May, 2012 - 05:59Vajragupta writes from Triratna’s Development Team to remind everyone of the upcoming Triratna International Retreat - starting four weeks today - and to give us five reasons not to miss it! They are…

1) It is the only big event for both the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community in the UK. It is a unique gathering, open to everyone, from those newest to our community right through to some of our most experienced Order members teaching...

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Padmasambhava celebrated at Stonehenge

By lokabandhu on Sun, 22 Apr, 2012 - 19:28

Padmasambhava celebrated at Stonehenge

By lokabandhu on Sun, 22 Apr, 2012 - 19:28April’s full moon saw the Buddhafield 2012 Yatra ending with a dawn celebration of Padmasambhava in the midst of the ancient stones of Stonehenge - after a week-long 70-mile walk along Britain’s Ridgeway track. Buddhafield have been running Yatras (a Sanskrit word simply meaning ‘walk’) for some years now and they have grown and grown - this one had some 35 people including the team of 6. They are a retreat, but a retreat with a difference, being...

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Coming up soon - Triratna's International Retreat!

By lokabandhu on Sun, 22 Apr, 2012 - 13:53

Coming up soon - Triratna's International Retreat!

By lokabandhu on Sun, 22 Apr, 2012 - 13:53Bookings are coming in fast for the third Triratna International Retreat at Taraloka, and will stay open until Friday 25th May. Places are limited to 500 so if you’re thinking to come - please book soon! Online booking can be made at triratnainternationalretreat.org. The event itself is shaping up to be a rich feast of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha: the theme is Imagining the Buddha, with talks by Dhammadinna, Ratnaguna and Subhuti. There will be Dharma study/discussion groups with each...

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EcoDharma offers new Engaged Buddhist Training course around Europe

By lokabandhu on Fri, 9 Mar, 2012 - 05:45

EcoDharma offers new Engaged Buddhist Training course around Europe

By lokabandhu on Fri, 9 Mar, 2012 - 05:45Guhyapati, founder and director of Triratna’s EcoDharma retreat centre, set high in the Catalan Pyrenees, writes with news of their expanding Engaged Buddhist Training program, now spreading across Europe. He says - “This spring the EcoDharma Centre is offering the Dharma-based perspectives and tools which make up our Engaged Buddhist Training to grassroots organisations across Europe - from the Mediterranean to East and Central Europe across Europe. Meanwhile, back home in Catalunya we launch a new series of...

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Buddhafield Festival talks now on-line

By lokabandhu on Sat, 13 Aug, 2011 - 06:00

Buddhafield Festival talks now on-line

By lokabandhu on Sat, 13 Aug, 2011 - 06:00Upekshapriya writes from Triratna’s ClearVision project with some news following this year’s Buddhafield Festival . He says - “You’ll be pleased to know that all the Dharma talks given at the ‘Dharma Parlour’ are now available through ClearVision’s VideoSangha website. In fact they’ve got a special playlist - “2011 Dharma Parlour”.

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