Tag: mahayana

Imagine! Notes from Sangha Night Series

By jvalamalini on Sun, 19 Feb, 2017 - 18:51

Satyalila’s notes from a series of talks on imagination, January 2017

File Name	Size
Imagination, the Buddha & Us	171.52 KB
Imagination, Mahayana & Us	1.46 MB
Imagination, Vajrayana & Us	1.23 MB
Imagination, Sangharakshita & Us	503.69 KB

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Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Mahayana Buddhism, A Six-Week Course (Achala)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 21:36

Here you can download handouts for a six-week course introducing the various schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The handouts were provided by Achala from New Zealand. Please note that Achala says they all need further improvement!

This is what Achala said about his intentions when designing this course:

I tried to construct a course such that it:
covers what an average human being needs to effectively practice Buddhism.

doesn’t not have a scholastic bent (so a few Pali/Sanskrit terms seemed reasonable but not so many as
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File Name	Size
Week 1 - The Emergence of Mahayana Buddhism (PDF)	111.49 KB
Week 1 Replacement - The Emergence of Mahayana Buddhism by Sagaraghosa (PDF)	807.07 KB
Week 2 - The Bodhisattva	117.94 KB
Week 3 - The Wisdom Schools (PDF)	117.94 KB
Week 4 - Yogacara and Zen (PDF)	110.83 KB
Week 5 - Pure Land, Hua-yan, and Vajrayana (PDF)	107.65 KB
Week 6 - The Unity of Buddhism (PDF)	114.12 KB

Buddhist Centre Features

Sangharakshita's Complete Works Appeal Celebration and Book Launch

By Candradasa on Sun, 23 Aug, 2015 - 00:06

At the start of this recording Parami refers to the assembled Order taking part in a Mahayana Sutra. Never was a comment more prescient as the thunder rolls in, the skies pour forth torrents of rain and the shrine marquee is played on like a great drum! Afterwards, rainbows - a fitting way to greet Sangharakshita who joins the throng to celebrate the success of an appeal to fund his Complete Works and to hear Kalyanaprabha...

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Dharmabyte: At Home with Myth

By Rijupatha on Tue, 24 Feb, 2015 - 20:15

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Jvalamalini brings us today’s FBA Dharmabyte, an excerpt from her talk “At Home In the Cosmos; Myth, Magic and Us”. She explains that we can start effectively reading the Mahayana sutras by first becoming “At Home with Myth” as a way of accessing aspects of spiritual experience that are unreachable through logic alone.

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Dharmabyte: Two Great Shifts in One’s Being

By Rijupatha on Thu, 30 Oct, 2014 - 14:31

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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Two Great Shifts in One’s Being,” Vajratara shares her thoughts on going forth, leaving behind ones old habits, and going for refuge towards what is real, what is possible, what is beautiful – the goal of the spiritual life. From the talk “The Bodhicaryavatara” given at Sangha Night, Sheffield Buddhist...

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Dharmabyte: The Stupa Emerges in The White Lotus Sutra

By Rijupatha on Mon, 12 May, 2014 - 17:05

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is titled “The Stupa Emerges in The White Lotus Sutra” by Sangharakshita from the talk “Five Element Symbolism and the Stupa”. In this excerpt, we hear about how the the Stupa of Abundant Treasures in The White Lotus Sutra emerges. Sangharakshita explains the origins of the Buddhist stupa and its connections with the five elements.

Talk given in 1971. This talk is part of the...

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Padmavajra on the 'Buddhafield' in Buddhist Mahayana Tradition

By Candradasa on Sun, 19 May, 2013 - 18:59

If you wonder why Buddhafield is called that, we thought you might like a little bit of the deep Dharma behind the name!

Here are some extracts from Padmavajra’s classic talk series from 2004 on the Diamond Sutra in which he looks at the Buddhist Mahayana tradition of the creation of Buddhafields as part of the Bodhisattva’s activity.

These are taken from talks 3 and 8. Listen to the whole series

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