Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Munisha on the EBU Podcast

By Centre Team on Sat, 13 Apr, 2024 - 16:32

Munisha on the EBU Podcast

By Centre Team on Sat, 13 Apr, 2024 - 16:32

European Buddha is the podcast run by the European Buddhist Union (EBU), looking at current affairs and various aspects of the EBU’s work.

This month’s interviewee is Munisha, who lives in Sweden and runs Triratna’s Liaison office, responsible for Triratna’s relations and co-operation with other Buddhist groups, mainly in the UK and Europe. In this capacity she has worked with the EBU since 2012 and was elected to the EBU council as vice...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

European Buddha: the European Buddhist Union podcast

By Munisha on Thu, 11 Apr, 2024 - 17:41

European Buddha: the European Buddhist Union podcast

By Munisha on Thu, 11 Apr, 2024 - 17:41

European Buddha is the podcast run by the European Buddhist Union (EBU), looking at current affairs and various aspects of the EBU’s work.

This month’s interviewee is Munisha, who lives in Sweden and runs Triratna’s Liaison office, responsible for Triratna’s relations and co-operation with other Buddhist groups, mainly in the UK and Europe. In this capacity she has worked with the EBU since 2012 and was elected to the EBU council as vice president in...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

First Buddhist European Chaplaincy Conference 24th-25th June 2023

By Munisha on Wed, 3 May, 2023 - 14:04

First Buddhist European Chaplaincy Conference 24th-25th June 2023

By Munisha on Wed, 3 May, 2023 - 14:04

The European Buddhist Union’s international conference, “Buddhist Chaplaincy in Europe”, will take place in Rome, at Sapienza University and online on 24th-25th June 2023.

Pre-conference workshops will take place on 23rd June.

The purpose of the conference is to develop, organize and support Buddhist chaplaincy in Europe in order to provide support, training opportunities and materials for those engaged in Buddhist chaplaincy, and to identify spiritual and pastoral needs within Buddhist communities to encourage broader community cohesion and social integration.

Full information below.

Bookings and enquiries to ...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

European Buddhist magazine spring edition now out

By Munisha on Tue, 11 Apr, 2023 - 11:27

European Buddhist magazine spring edition now out

By Munisha on Tue, 11 Apr, 2023 - 11:27

The spring edition of European Buddhist, the European Buddhist Union’s magazine, is available now, for free download here:

https://europeanbuddhistunion.org/ebu-spring-2023-magazine

On the theme of EcoDharma, it includes articles on

  • Buddhism meets the Climate Crisis
  • Wisdom Working for the Earth
  • The Way of the Ecosattva
  • Is Ecodharma (always) Buddhist?
  • Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au
  • Buddhists and climate change in practice
  • Ecoselves: towards a spiritual and cultural transformation?
  • Being the Change: EBU and the Sustainable Environment on Earth for All Beings
  • What Ecodharma Means to Me
  • Nature, Mindfulness, Ecology, The culture of harmony
Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

EBU Conference: Contemplative Sciences Network 19th November 2022

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Nov, 2022 - 16:00

EBU Conference: Contemplative Sciences Network 19th November 2022

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Nov, 2022 - 16:00

Saturday 19th November 2022

14.00-19.00 CET

Zoom

Inaugural conference of the European Buddhist Union’s Contemplative Sciences Network.

Registration is free

Details here.

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

European Buddhist Union + Buddhist Teachers in Europe 2022

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Nov, 2022 - 12:49

European Buddhist Union + Buddhist Teachers in Europe 2022

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Nov, 2022 - 12:49

The last weekend of September saw the annual 3-day meeting of the European Buddhist Union (EBU), followed by the meeting of Buddhist Teachers in Europe. I attended as Triratna’s Liaison officer it was a pleasure to have my old friend Vassika there for both meetings, from Triratna Paris.

These meetings took place at the Fo Guang Shan temple just outside Paris, where we were hosted with great generosity by the community of nuns from Taiwan.

Around 30 people attended the EBU...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

Buddhist parenting: EBU pilot project

By Munisha on Fri, 11 Mar, 2022 - 10:34

Buddhist parenting: EBU pilot project

By Munisha on Fri, 11 Mar, 2022 - 10:34

The European Buddhist Union is piloting a project for Buddhist parents who would like share experience about Dharma practice in parenting.

The first meeting will take place on Zoom this Sunday 13th March, 17.00 - 18.15 PM CET (16.00-17.15 pm UK).

To participate, please email dharmaparenting [at] europeanbuddhistunion.org and you will receive further information and the Zoom link.

The aim of the meeting is to provide a virtual room where parents or family members can share their...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

Ukraine: a message from the European Buddhist Union

By Munisha on Thu, 3 Mar, 2022 - 11:49

Ukraine: a message from the European Buddhist Union

By Munisha on Thu, 3 Mar, 2022 - 11:49

The committee of the European Buddhist Union invites all Buddhists to meditate or otherwise practise “to promote a feeling of peace, togetherness and awareness”, tomorrow Friday 4th March, 21:00 - 22:00 CET.

They write

“Dear friends,

the European Buddhist Union is deeply concerned and saddened about the war in Ukraine. We hope the hostilities will end soon and a peaceful solution for the crisis is found. War affects all of us in a harmful way and especially in this century
...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022

By Munisha on Sun, 23 Jan, 2022 - 11:47

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022

By Munisha on Sun, 23 Jan, 2022 - 11:47

We offer sincere condolences to our fellow Dharmafarers in the worldwide Plum Village Tradition on the death of their founder, Thich Nhat Hanh, yesterday, 22nd January 2022. He was 95.

See Plum Village’s announcement of his passing and their memorial activities.

A Vietnamese Zen monk and teacher, Nhat Hanh founded the Order and Community of Interbeing (part of the Plum Village Tradition), and combined teachings from early Buddhism, Mahayana traditions and western psychology. He was prominent in the teaching...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

European Buddhist Union annual gathering 2021

By Munisha on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 12:23

European Buddhist Union annual gathering 2021

By Munisha on Sat, 23 Oct, 2021 - 12:23

Triratna is a longstanding member of the European Buddhist Union (EBU) and as Triratna’s Liaison officer I have attended its annual meetings since 2012. Held on the last weekend of September every year, they’re hosted by one or other of the member organisations, often in retreat centres. 2018 saw them at Adhisthana.

This year we met at Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa in Tuscany, Italy, a centre run by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana (FPMT), with...

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