Tag: European Buddhist Union

European Buddha: the European Buddhist Union podcast

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...

European Buddhist Union + Buddhist Teachers in Europe 2023

As every year on the last long weekend in September the European Buddhist Union held its annual 3-day meeting, this year outside Brussels, followed by the annual 3-day meeting of Buddhist Teachers in Europe.

(These meetings meet in different places around Europe year by year but this time we met in Brussels to mark the EBU’s transition to being registered as an organisation in Belgium, to enable easier access to the European political institutions in which the...

European Buddhist magazine spring edition now out

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

European Buddhist Union + Buddhist Teachers in Europe 2022

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...