Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 10:30

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 10:30

Could you be our next cook or do our publicity?

Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita envisioned Adhisthana as a place of blessings, where the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community would gather and engage wholeheartedly with his radical vision of the Dharma in all its breadth, depth and clarity. As we move out of the 10th anniversary year of Adhisthana’s opening and into celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sangharakshita’s birth, our founder and teacher’s vision remains dynamic and alive.

Central to unfolding this vision are Adhisthana’s two single-sex...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:45

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:45

Could you be our next cook or do our publicity?

Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita envisioned Adhisthana as a place of blessings, where the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community would gather and engage wholeheartedly with his radical vision of the Dharma in all its breadth, depth and clarity. As we move out of the 10th anniversary year of Adhisthana’s opening and into celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sangharakshita’s birth, our founder and teacher’s vision remains dynamic and alive.

Central to unfolding this vision are Adhisthana’s two single-sex...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Order member wanted in women's LBC community

By Development Team on Wed, 12 Feb, 2025 - 16:59

Order member wanted in women's LBC community

By Development Team on Wed, 12 Feb, 2025 - 16:59

Are you looking for a change in your life? Would you be interested in moving to Samayakula community to live with six other Order members? We are looking for a Dharmacharini to join Dhammadinna, Kavyamani, Lilamani, Maitreyi, Muditasri, Saccamani and five mitras.

You could be based in London already or interested in relocating. We are an experienced community with some long standing members as well as younger and newer people. We are all involved with activities at the LBC and elsewhere.

If you...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

One space available: Kalyanaloka - Bristol's Womens+ Community

By yasmin.dix on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 19:02

One space available: Kalyanaloka - Bristol's Womens+ Community

By yasmin.dix on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 19:02

One space available immediately in Kalyanaloka – Bristol’s Buddhist community for women and non-binary people. Current residents are three GFR Mitras aged 28 – 37 with strong connections in the Bristol sangha. Between us we work and study in a variety of health and environmental settings.

Spacious room available in our four bed (plus shrine room!) house that has a rich legacy of being a Triratna community for around eight years. Five minutes walk from Bristol Buddhist Centre,...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

September at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 3 Oct, 2024 - 10:12

September at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 3 Oct, 2024 - 10:12

The Maltese sangha, who joined us for the combined sanghas retreat on Living with Kindness, have made a beautiful new contribution to the alcoves in the main shrine. The atmosphere on-site was as warm as you’d expect from an international gathering of sanghas practicing metta bhavana.

We were also delighted to welcome Shubhavyuha back after her six-month sabbatical in Australia, where among other things, she helped run an ordination retreat. The women’s community is enjoying her positivity and kalyana mitrata, and celebrated...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

New Podcast: The Three Body Solution

By Candradasa on Mon, 30 Sep, 2024 - 14:00

Home Retreats help us inject some of the powerful teachings of the Buddha directly into our everyday lives. This week we’re joined by Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka to talk about what lies behind their latest week-long collaborative venture with The Buddhist Centre [Live] - the enigmatically titled ‘The Three Bodies of Belonging’. 

In this episode we dive into the the traditional Buddhist teaching / images / metaphors / experiences of the three kayas (‘bodies’): Dharmakaya, Samboghakaya and Nirmanakaya. These are correlated...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Join Kalyanaloka Bristol Community!

By EllaWalker on Sat, 27 Jul, 2024 - 21:27

Join Kalyanaloka Bristol Community!

By EllaWalker on Sat, 27 Jul, 2024 - 21:27

Hi all!

We would love to welcome an Order member or mitra to join our queer-friendly community of four at Kalyanaloka later this year! We are three mitras training for ordination and our community life is built on a foundation of friendship and commitment to the three jewels. We have regular community time and meditate together in our dedicated shrine room.

Our rejoicings in Kalyanaloka...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Chair's Letter – May 2024

By ratnadharini on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 17:46

Chair's Letter – May 2024

By ratnadharini on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 17:46

Dear Order Members and friends,

Thanks to Purna for his evocative letter last month from Sudarshanaloka, the ‘land of beautiful vision’, in New Zealand; I’m very much looking forward to being there for the first time in a few months. 

A few weeks ago I was at another of our retreat centres: Akashavana, ‘the forest retreat of luminous space’, in Spain. It was an informal visit as I hadn’t been there for many years and wanted to connect with...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

May at Adhisthana

By Rush on Fri, 31 May, 2024 - 12:23

May at Adhisthana

By Rush on Fri, 31 May, 2024 - 12:23

In May we welcomed 80 retreatants for our second ever People of Colour retreat and had the largest Philosophy Symposium yet, on Liberty, Nietzsche and Buddhism. We also had our yearly Blake retreat drawing on our retreatants’ wilder sides, and were delighted to host the York/Scarborough and Manchester sanghas. Towards the end of the month, we also had the honour of hosting the funeral for Srisambhava, with 90 guests paying their respects in the Main Shrine room.

The Operations team has been well supported...

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