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Kerala Floods - Relief and Rehabilitation

By Sadayasihi on Tue, 4 Sep, 2018 - 16:59

Kerala Floods - Relief and Rehabilitation

By Sadayasihi on Tue, 4 Sep, 2018 - 16:59

Kerala is suffering its worst floods for 100 years. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced and are living in over 1,000 relief camps set up in the State. There have been a number of deaths and many serious injuries. Many are missing. The numbers are rising all the time. But even in such disaster, ugly face of untouchability rises and Dalits are discriminated during relief, as reported by India Today on July 24th, 2018. It happened earlier in Gujarat Earthquake; even the Tsunami...

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Triratna grows in Kerala: new publications, new retreats

By lokabandhu on Fri, 18 May, 2012 - 05:58

Triratna grows in Kerala: new publications, new retreats

By lokabandhu on Fri, 18 May, 2012 - 05:58Today and tomorrow see two posts from the growing Triratna Sangha in Kerala, South India. Today Arun writes with news of their latest publication and recent - and first - Mitra retreat, saying - “Recently we had one 3-day Dhammamitra retreat here in Kerala. It was a first Dhammamitra retreat in Kerala. There were nine Dhammamitras all of them in the ordination process. We conducted our retreat at the new community Ratnaloka in Thiruvanantapuram, capital of Kerala. We studied the...
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Triratna in Kerala - a report

By lokabandhu on Thu, 29 Mar, 2012 - 05:37

Triratna in Kerala - a report

By lokabandhu on Thu, 29 Mar, 2012 - 05:37Triratna has been established in India for well over thirty years now, with a dozen or more Buddhist Centres, several hundred Order Members and well over 5,000 Mitras. In recent years, however, it has begun to expand more vigorously from its base in Maharastra, central India - and today we bring you the first of several reports from some of its more pioneering activities in that great county. Central to Triratna’s expansion is the Nagarjuna Training Institute in Nagpur where...
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News from Kerala and Jai Bhim International

By lokabandhu on Wed, 25 Jan, 2012 - 05:26

News from Kerala and Jai Bhim International

By lokabandhu on Wed, 25 Jan, 2012 - 05:26Dayamudra, an American Order Member with strong links to India, writes from Kerala, where she’s recently completed her third tour and retreat in south India with the growing Triratna team there, where they are known as ‘Jai Bhim Kerala’. She says -

“Dear Friends- Our team has just concluded our 6-day Communicative English and Basic Buddhism Retreat in Kollam, Kerala, in southwest India. It was our 3rd annual collaboration with the Jai Bhim Kerala team and we...
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Unique Triratna Retreat Starts in Kerala, South India

By lokabandhu on Sat, 24 Dec, 2011 - 05:41

Unique Triratna Retreat Starts in Kerala, South India

By lokabandhu on Sat, 24 Dec, 2011 - 05:41Today sees the start of a unique Triratna retreat held annually in Kerala, South India - a 6-day residential “communicative English retreat” for 60 Keralan students including around 30 girls. It’s a collaboration between Jai Bhim Kerala and the San Francisco-based Jai Bhim International, and brings together Indians and Westerners to study and practice simultaneously the Dharma and spoken English. Dayamudra, director of Jai Bhim International and newly-ordained, writes with more details. She says - “This year will...
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News from Kerala

By lokabandhu on Thu, 18 Aug, 2011 - 06:20

News from Kerala

By lokabandhu on Thu, 18 Aug, 2011 - 06:20Today’s story on Triratna News features a long report in from Kerala giving an update on the activities of the small but vigorous group there. Composed of graduates from NTI, Triratna’s social and Dhamma training institute a thousand miles north in Nagpur, they’re busy bringing the Dhamma to south India. Sadhu!

Arun’s sent us this report (lightly edited here):

“Dear friends,

Over the past ten years there has been tremendous growth in the number of Buddhist...