Tag: devotion

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Buddha Day Offerings From The Goddess of the Spring

By Candradasa on Sat, 2 Jun, 2018 - 08:10

To mark the great festival of Buddha Day (Wesak), when we celebrate the Enlightenment and its opening up of the path that leads to the end of suffering, here’s a wonderful mythologically minded conversation with Sthanashraddha, self-confessed ritualist and all-round lover of beauty and of the Dharma as an aesthetic choice in itself.

Sthanashraddha’s considerable elegance of being and of mind comes through beautifully as we hear his magical tale of a dawn adventure to meet the goddess of the Malvern springs...
Triratna Resources
Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Ritual & Devotion - introductory six week course by Vajrapriya

By mokshini on Mon, 28 Nov, 2016 - 12:55

A six week course introducing puja and devotion, written by Vajrapriya, Cambridge

This course is part of a longer (six module) “Buddhism Two” Course ; it is 5th of the 6th courses. 

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’ (bodhicitta)
  • The Heart Sutra: the essence of emptiness. Chanting, and the use of mantras
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ritual_devotion_course_week_1.doc40 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_1_dedication_ceremony_.doc24 KB
ritual_devotion_week_1_-_handout_.doc48 KB
ritual_devotion_intro_course_vajrapriya_-_overview_.doc30.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_2_.doc54.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_2_threefold_puja.doc176 KB
ritual_devotion_week_2_handout_.doc49.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_3_.doc42 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_3_handout_.doc38 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_3_sevenfold_puja_.doc32 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_3_translation_of_rs_ps_.doc50.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_3_worksheet_.doc42 KB
ritual_devotion_week_4.doc42.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_4_diary.doc33 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_4_handout_.doc41 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_5_.doc45.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_5_handout.doc41.5 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_6.doc44 KB
ritual_devotion_course_week_6_handout.doc41 KB
ritual_devotion_week_6_bodhicitta_meditation_.doc24 KB
Triratna Resources
Triratna Resources

Mantras (Audio)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 23:42

The Birmingham Buddhist Centre sangha, led by Vipulakirti, have recorded their own versions here. Musical notation and an article about how to approach mantras and their chanting will follow soon from him, but, at the bottom of this page, you’ll find a short explanation about the mantras and the musical “principles” behind them.

With many thanks to Vipulakirti and all the chanters!

These searches on The Buddhist Centre Online yield considerably updated resources: Chanting  |  Mantra

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File NameSize
Aksobhya (mp3)3.02 MB
Amitabha (mp3)6 MB
Amoghasiddhi (mp3)4.5 MB
Maitreya (mp3)4.19 MB
Ratnasambhava (mp3)3.03 MB
Shakyamuni (mp3)3.47 MB
Vairocana (mp3)2.96 MB
White Tara (mp3)6.16 MB
Triratna Resources
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 NameSize
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
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

  1. Who/what do Buddhists worship? Commitment to a path of personal development.
     
  2. The practice of openness, disclosure and confession.
     
  3. The importance of developing positive emotion.
     
  4. Receptivity: turning towards what is deepest in ourselves and the universe.
     
  5. The ‘Awakening Heart’
    6. ...
File NameSize
Ritual and Devotion - A Course In Six-Weeks by Vajrapriya (zip)2.19 MB
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

FBA Podcast: Buddhism and the Language of Myth

By Rijupatha on Sat, 4 Jul, 2015 - 11:00

This week’s FBA Podcast entitled “Buddhism and the Language of Myth” is part of the series “Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism” by Sangharakshita. Buddhism is the most rational of religions. But it appeals no less to the heart than to the head, using the language of myth to do so. Examples are four ‘myths’ from the Buddha’s biography, here correlated with four of Jung’s archetypes.

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Community Highlights

The Threefold Puja

The Threefold Puja

By Candradasa on Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 - 21:04And while we’re at it, here is the Threefold Puja!

This is a shorter compilation of verses composed by Urgyen Sangharakshita for general use in the Triratna Buddhist Community. The Threefold Puja is often performed at Buddhist Centres and on retreat, and it’s a beautifully weighted little text that brings our emotions into play alongside rational understandings of the Buddhist path.

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Community Highlights

The Sevenfold Puja

The Sevenfold Puja

By Candradasa on Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 - 20:56Another post to mark Triratna’s anniversaries this week. Munisha pointed out that we didn’t have the Sevenfold Puja text as a file on our site. Well we sort of did, but only as a link… Well, offering that kind of thing is something we’ll be able to address much more fully with time (and resources!), but for now this particular instance is easy to rectify! Here’s a version we prepared for the last Urban Retreat, for...