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The Sweet Mystery of Friendship

By Candradasa on Wed, 30 Jul, 2025 - 16:43

The Sweet Mystery of Friendship

By Candradasa on Wed, 30 Jul, 2025 - 16:43

What is the connection between the Cistercian Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire and Sangharakshita’s teachings on Spiritual Friendship?

Paramartha explores this question and more in the twenty fourth video blog from Urgyen House. With extracts from Sangharakshita’s talks and objects in Urgyen House he considers why spiritual friendship is one of the six emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community.

The programme is 18 minutes long and English subtitles are available.

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Great Ocean (Part 3): Alchemy

By Candradasa on Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 - 20:54

Great Ocean (Part 3): Alchemy

By Candradasa on Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 - 20:54

A fascinating look through Triratna’s history via this realistic portrayal of Sangharakshita and his friendships. This film also includes a take on his sexuality in an honest and direct way.

I really enjoyed the film - and wanted it to keep going! I loved the appropriate and often witty juxtapositions… My overwhelming response was one of delight.
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Great Ocean (Part 2): Affinity

By Candradasa on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 21:58

Great Ocean (Part 2): Affinity

By Candradasa on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 21:58

Arriving back in England Sangharakshita formed a friendship with Terry Delamare, who worked in advertising. Their brief but devoted companionship was an antidote to the mid 60s world of British Buddhism and they shared a love of travel. After its partial decriminalisation Sangharakshita embarked on a couple of homosexual relationships.

The film covered Bhante’s return to England and the founding of the Order. I thought it was a brilliant piece of work covering some painful and sensitive topics in an informative, helpful
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Great Ocean (Part 1): Memories of the Road

By Candradasa on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 21:36

Great Ocean (Part 1): Memories of the Road

By Candradasa on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 21:36

I started Great Ocean by writing to and later meeting Sangharakshita in June 2018. My idea was a film to explore a range of friendships in his life and he was quick to name two very important ones: Buddharakshita and Terry Delamare.

In this first part, we meet Buddharakshita, Sangharakshita’s companion in the holy life who facilitated the transition to living in India. A first person account taken from several memoirs vividly brought to life with found footage.

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Elders and Pioneer of Retreat Center

By Saddhammapradip on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 13:14

Elders and Pioneer of Retreat Center

By Saddhammapradip on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 13:14

Ratnasagar and Kumarjeev are elder and pioneer of retreat center. Ratnasagar has contributed to retreat center in mid 1980 to early 1990 as well as Kumarjeev has contributed to retreat center from mid 1990 to early 2000.

It was good to see both of them meet together by chance at retreat center. They both are encouraging figure from very early age.

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Seeing Each Others Potential (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 12 May, 2025 - 14:35

When we interact with others, do we truly see them as they are, beyond the stories we have built around them? Or are we often lost in our assumptions, judgments, and preconceived notions about who they are, based on our own views and experiences. Sanghagita explores how we can really learn to see others and discover that when we truly pay attention, there we find love. Excerpted from the talk Have We Ever Really...

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Equally Love All Beings (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 28 Apr, 2025 - 11:00

Parami explores themes of friendship through poems by Robert Burns and quotes from Sangharakshita and from the Pali Canon. Excerpted from the talk Burns, Bhante and the Buddha: Themes of Friendship and Solidarity given at Glasgow Buddhist Centre as part of the series Burns, Bhante and the Buddha, 2024.

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Opening the Mystery of Friendship (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

Aryadasa discusses his experience of moving through fear in order to live a life more dedicated to love and friendship. He talks about the difficulties involved in this transition and the fruits that come from working through such difficulties. Excerpted from the talk Fearless Love - A Personal Talk by Aryadasa given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2019, as part of the Sub35 Men’s Fearless Love retreat.

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Great Ocean: Sangharakshita and Friends - Abiding Part Two

By Suryaprabha on Mon, 11 Nov, 2024 - 21:02

Great Ocean: Sangharakshita and Friends - Abiding Part Two

By Suryaprabha on Mon, 11 Nov, 2024 - 21:02

Great Ocean, Urgyen Sangharakshita and Friends, a biography is now complete with this 150-minute film (with a part break).

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The Lady of Tibet Yeshe Tsogyal (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 12 Oct, 2024 - 11:00

Vajratara provides an inspiring and thorough introduction to Padmasambhava’s consort and great disciple, Yeshe Tsogyal. This talk was given at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2008.

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