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Triratna Resources
Triratna Resources

Buddhist Festival Days: 2024-2033 CE

By aparajita on Fri, 19 Apr, 2024 - 17:37

Fixed date festivals (solar calendar):

  • Parinirvana Day 15 February
  • Triratna Sangha Day 6 April (the anniversary of the founding of the FWBO in 1967)
  • Triratna Order Day 7 April (the anniversary of the founding of the WBO in 1968)
  • The Buddha’s birthday 8 April
  • Sangharakshita’s birthday 26 August (b. 1925)

The lunar calendar festivals (see PDF) are calculated according to the first full moon (in the UK) of May, July, and November. Padmasambhava Day is calculated according to the tenth day of the lunar month starting in September. ...

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Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

How We Go For Refuge to the Sangha: Sangha Day 2022 Live from Adhisthana

By Centre Team on Wed, 19 Oct, 2022 - 01:24

How We Go For Refuge to the Sangha: Sangha Day 2022 Live from Adhisthana

By Centre Team on Wed, 19 Oct, 2022 - 01:24

Join us for an intimate celebration of Sangha Day live from Adhisthana in the heart of the English countryside.

Connect on Zoom

Urgyen Sangharakshita once called Going for Refuge, “The central act of the Buddhist life”. Paramabandhu leads an international event exploring how this understanding relates to the community we all take part in, and finds its place at the very heart of our practice in Triratna.

5 November, 2022

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Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

By Centre Team on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58
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The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

By Centre Team on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

2021 has been another rollercoaster of a year: with the three of the traditional ‘four sights’ of old age, sickness and death an ever present backdrop. But 2021 has also been interspersed with moments of beauty, generosity, connectedness and hope.

Our team has been busy this year keeping the fourth sight—the Dharma—alive; fostering community—sangha—at a time of continued uncertainty.

Looking back over the year, here are some of our highlights from the year that was 2021:

Support The Buddhist Centre Online in 2022—and beyond!...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

International Sangha Day: May Our Communication Be Sangha

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 Sep, 2021 - 20:51
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International Sangha Day: May Our Communication Be Sangha

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 Sep, 2021 - 20:51

Sunday November 21
Sangha, spiritual community, can be described as a network of friendships based on what’s of most value. In the company of those committed to the Buddha’s teachings – past and present – we can express and deepen metta, loving-kindness, in our deeds, words and thoughts.

This year’s International Sangha Day celebration focuses on communication because communication is a crucial part of the practice and development of Sangha. At its worst, communication can cause conflict and confusion, polarisation and the...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

An Online Festival Of Light: International Sangha Day, November 28th 2020

By Centre Team on Tue, 29 Sep, 2020 - 21:34
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An Online Festival Of Light: International Sangha Day, November 28th 2020

By Centre Team on Tue, 29 Sep, 2020 - 21:34

What a year… Through dark days that have brought heartache for so many reasons, we’ve come together as a community time and time again. Resilient, reflective, remarkable. And now, as we head into winter in one hemisphere and summer in another, we invite everyone moved by the sangha in 2020 to gather again as one.

We’ll pass the torch around the world once more – starting at dawn in the south Pacific, ending with nightfall in the north – ringing Triratna with...
Triratna Festivals
Festivals

Triratna Festival dates

By lokabandhu on Tue, 11 Aug, 2020 - 15:28

Triratna Festival dates

By lokabandhu on Tue, 11 Aug, 2020 - 15:28

Here’s a handy link to the dates of Triratna festivals through to 2025…

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/triratna-project-support/festival-dates-2015-2025-ce 
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Dharma Day Live on Sunday from Padmaloka!

By Centre Team on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 00:30

Dharma Day Live on Sunday from Padmaloka!

By Centre Team on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 00:30

Listen: The Deathless Has Been Attained!
Dharma Day Live on Sunday

Come and celebrate Dharma Day from Padmaloka Retreat Centre – wherever you are in the world!

To celebrate Dharma Day this year, Padmaloka will be offering a full online festival programme including live streamed meditations and rituals from the Shrine Room, and a live talk and Q&A by Padmavajra. His talk will explore the story of the turning of the wheel of the Dharma and, in...
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: The Buddha is Eternal

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 17 Feb, 2020 - 14:00

In this talk on the Buddha’s parinirvana, Vadanya explores how we can use our imagination to have a real living connection with the Buddha, and how we can make our own future potential for enlightenment a source of strength and guidance in our present lives.

From the talk Is the Buddha Dead - For Us given at a Men’s Event, Padmaloka Retreat Centre, October 2011, as part of the series entitled Parinirvana Day.

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Triratna Resources
Triratna Resources

Buddhist Festival Dates (2023-2033 C.E.)

By Shantavira on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 01:29

Buddhist Festival Dates (2023-2033 C.E.)

By Shantavira on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 01:29

Fixed date festivals (solar calendar)

  • Parinirvana Day 15 February
  • Triratna Sangha Day 6 April (the anniversary of the founding of the FWBO in 1967)
  • Triratna Order Day 7 April (the anniversary of the founding of the WBO in 1968)
  • The Buddha’s birthday 8 April
  • Sangharakshita’s birthday 26 August (b. 1925)

The lunar calendar festivals depicted in the picture (click to expand it or right click to save it) are calculated according to the first full moon (in the UK) of May, July, and November. Padmasambhava Day is calculated according to...
Ipswich Buddhist Centre
Ipswich Buddhist Centre

Ipswich Buddhist Centre celebrates Buddha Day

By RCheesley on Fri, 8 May, 2015 - 17:38

Ipswich Buddhist Centre celebrates Buddha Day

By RCheesley on Fri, 8 May, 2015 - 17:38

Ipswich Buddhist Centre celebrated Buddha Day with a day of activities organised in the town’s Christchurch Park. 

The Reg Driver Visitors Centre hosted the event, to celebrate the day on which, over 2,500 years ago, the Buddha gained enlightenment.

There was a good turnout from the sangha, with a beautiful shine which included rupas from many of the sangha members.

For photos please check out the local newspaper’s website: http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/gallery_ipswich_buddhists_mark_enlightenment_day_1_4059553

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