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Triratna Resources

Pujas (in English and Other Languages)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 23:32

Here are some older versions of some the main pujas and other ceremonies as practiced in Triratna – in several languages.

This search for ‘puja’ on The Buddhist Centre Online yields considerably updated resources

Also see Triratna Translations for many more translations of key ritual texts used in the Triratna Buddhist Community

File Name	Size
Akshobhya Puja - Deutsch (PDF)	55.72 KB
Bodhicaryavatara Puma - Deutsch (PDF)	51.18 KB
De Korte Poeja (PDF)	31.83 KB
Dedication Ceremony (PDF)	22.66 KB
Die Siebenfaltige Puja (PDF)	65.61 KB
Einfache Puja (PDF)	28.11 KB
Irische Puja - Deutsch (PDF)	46.3 KB
La Puja En Sept Parties (PDF)	80.79 KB
Le Sutra du Coeur (PDF)	48.2 KB
Puja aus der Gandavyuha Sutra (PDF)	53.44 KB
The Heart Sutra (PDF)	35.37 KB
The Sevenfold Puja (PDF)	44.52 KB
The Threefold Puja (PDF)	170.78 KB
Ti Ratana Vandana (PDF)	28.01 KB
Ti Ratana Vandana - Deutsch (PDF)	45.68 KB
Weihungszeremonie (PDF)	27.06 KB
Семичленная пуджа (PDF)	72.83 KB
Сердечна cутра (PDF)	59.54 KB

Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Imagination, Beauty and Ritual, An Eight-Week Course (Padmavajri)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 22:41

This course over eight weeks on The Place of Imagination, Beauty, and Ritual in the Spiritual Life was provided by Padmavajri from the Brighton Buddhist Centre.

Padmavajri says: “I led two groups on this. The course was aimed at any Mitras and it turned out I had a group of experienced Mitras, and a group of newer Mitras (one or two years old)… The two groups here loved it, enjoyed it, were challenged by it, and also were helped to understand ritual and the arts...

File Name	Size
Overview (PDF)	68.4 KB
Week 1 - Emotional Energy and Spiritual Aspiration (PDF)	77.03 KB
Week 2 - Faith and Non-faith (PDF)	72.21 KB
Week 3 - The Psychology of the Spiritual Life (PDF)	75.7 KB
Week 4 - The Life and Death of the Imagination (PDF)	77.7 KB
Week 5 - Beauty and the Hierarchy of Art (PDF)	82.72 KB
Week 6 - The Dharma in Poetry (PDF)	77.05 KB
Week 7 - The Psychology of Ritual (PDF)	75.31 KB
Week 8 - Approaching the Sevenfold Puja (PDF)	76.48 KB

Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Ritual and Devotion, A Course In Six-Weeks (Vajrapriya)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 22:12

Exploring the psychology and meaning of Buddhist ritual through the ‘Sevenfold Puja’

A six-week course exploring Buddhist ritual. Provided by Vajrapriya, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK. Module 5 of Vajrapriya’s Buddhism Two Course in six modules.

Download this overview here

Overview

Who/what do Buddhists worship? Commitment to a path of personal development.
The practice of openness, disclosure and confession.
The importance of developing positive emotion.
Receptivity: turning towards what is deepest in ourselves and the universe.
The ‘Awakening Heart’

File Name	Size
Ritual and Devotion - A Course In Six-Weeks by Vajrapriya (zip)	2.19 MB

Triratna Resources

Buddhist Funerals (2011)

By Centre Team on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 16:34

There seem to be more and more funerals happening at Triratna Buddhist Centres. This trend, sadly, is likely to continue indefinitely. The London Buddhist Centre have produced a very useful Guide to Funerals at the LBC which can be downloaded here.

Some of the names and businesses referred to may have changed since this was produced.

File Name	Size
A Guide to Funerals at the LBC (PDF)	1.36 MB