Tag: Kamalashila

College of Public Preceptors

Letter from the Chair – December 2024

By Mahamati on Sat, 30 Nov, 2024 - 09:34

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Letter from the Chair – December 2024

By Mahamati on Sat, 30 Nov, 2024 - 09:34

Dear Order members and friends,

A year ago at the College’s annual international meeting I was surprised when my fellow College members asked me to take over from Ratnadharini, in a year’s time, as the next College Chair. However, I quite quickly adjusted and have spent much of the last year reflecting on what this responsibility requires of me, and preparing to take it on. I am grateful to Ratnadharini for her support in this handover - I admired her chairing...

Triratna News

Recording of Memorial Service and Practice Day for Kamalashila

By dayaketu on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 22:03

Recording of Memorial Service and Practice Day for Kamalashila

By dayaketu on Thu, 28 Nov, 2024 - 22:03

The recording of Yashobodhi and friends at the North London Buddhist Centre for the online live stream of a memorial service and practice day for Kamalashila.

College of Public Preceptors

Remembering Kamalashila

By akasajoti on Fri, 1 Nov, 2024 - 01:00

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Remembering Kamalashila

By akasajoti on Fri, 1 Nov, 2024 - 01:00

Kamalashila was one of the earliest public preceptors, one of three Order members whom Sangharakshita asked to carry out ordinations on his behalf in India in 1985. In all, he became a preceptor to 38 Order members. In the 1990s he lived at Madhyamaloka as part of the Preceptors’ College Council, and subsequently was active in the Preceptors’ College.

Below, four Public Preceptors – Sanghadevi, Satyaraja, Ashokashri and Nagabodhi – rejoice in, and share memories of, Kamalashila. On...

Buddhist Centre Features

Mindfulness of Death

By Candradasa on Fri, 14 Jun, 2024 - 22:09

Mindfulness of Death

By Candradasa on Fri, 14 Jun, 2024 - 22:09

A beautiful 20 minute gently guided reflection on how our bodies and our consciousness (parsed by Kamalashila as “manifesting a world”) might, in time, come into relationship with our own dying and death.

Listen to a conversation with Kamalashila about Buddhist practice in the face of terminal cancer

Buddhist Centre Features

New Podcast: Mindfulness of Death and Dying

By Candradasa on Sat, 8 Jun, 2024 - 19:42

Kamalashila is dying. So are we - we are dying. Really.

In this recent conversation with Kamalashila following his diagnosis of terminal cancer - and in the closing guided meditation reflecting on death - this is the core theme to which we keep returning: the value of familiarising ourselves with our impermanence: dying and death are going to happen to every single one of us. As Kamalashila says, “Taking it out of the taboo cupboard”.

We hear Kamalashila’s perspective starting out on what he...

Online Meditators

Unfortunately, I have a new plan for the summer

By kamalashila on Sat, 4 May, 2024 - 11:59

Unfortunately, I have a new plan for the summer

By kamalashila on Sat, 4 May, 2024 - 11:59

I’m writing to everyone interested in the new weekly series of Anapanasati and Brahmaviharas practice sessions. Many of you won’t have heard about what’s happened, so I’m sorry, this will be a shock, please pause and take a breath. Over the last month I have discovered that I have cancer, that it is incurable, and that I am estimated to have just a few months to live. Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. See my ‘journey into the unknown’ blog on ...