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Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Manchester Buddhist Centre Chair: Applications Sought

By upekshapriya on Tue, 2 Jan, 2024 - 15:15

Manchester Buddhist Centre Chair: Applications Sought

By upekshapriya on Tue, 2 Jan, 2024 - 15:15

Dear Order Members,

As you may know the current Chair of the Manchester Buddhist Centre, Silabodhi will be stepping down at the end of May 2024. We are now in the process of appointing our next Chair. 

We are inviting applications from Order members by 23rd February 2024. Interviews will be at the start of the week of 4th March along with an opportunity for applicants to share their vision with local Order Members.

The role would ideally start in April. This central position at the...

Triratna News
Triratna News

Public Ordination in Manchester

By Centre Team on Thu, 17 Mar, 2022 - 13:46

Public Ordination in Manchester

By Centre Team on Thu, 17 Mar, 2022 - 13:46

Sunday 6th March 2022

Dear friends,

I am delighted to announce that the former Tom Llewellyn was publicly ordained today at the Manchester Buddhist Centre.

He becomes Buddhasevaka: He who is a servant of the Buddha

His private preceptor is Mahasraddha and his public preceptor is myself

with metta,

Arthapriya 
 

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Ordination at the Manchester Buddhist Centre

By padmavajra on Mon, 24 May, 2021 - 11:11

Ordination at the Manchester Buddhist Centre

By padmavajra on Mon, 24 May, 2021 - 11:11

We are delighted to announce a Public Ordination that took place at the Manchester Buddhist Centre on 23rd May 2021. The ceremony was conducted in the Lotus Hall with a restricted number of sangha and family members attending. 

The new Dharmachari was privately ordained on a private retreat with his preceptor Aparājita, and the Public Preceptor was Padmavajra:

Barrie Stanhope from Southport, in North-West England, becomes Buddhamaitrī. He who has the friendliness of the Buddha.
(The last i is long)

SADHUSADHUSADHU!

With metta,
Padmavajra

Triratna News
Triratna News

Looking back on Buddhist Action Month 2017

By Aryanisha on Tue, 4 Jul, 2017 - 13:20

Looking back on Buddhist Action Month 2017

By Aryanisha on Tue, 4 Jul, 2017 - 13:20

This June saw another successful Buddhist Action Month (BAM) unfold. We take a look at what it was all about and how the Triratna Buddhist Community around the world took part.

So what is BAM?

Mokshini writes

“At the heart of Triratna is the Bodhisattva Ideal – the aspiration and heartfelt wish to benefit others and the commitment to act in ways that help all beings to thrive. Buddhist Action Month is an opportunity to reach out and engage with friends or local communities in ways that...

Triratna News
Triratna News

Kilimanjaro helps Dhanakosa

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Sep, 2015 - 15:24

Kilimanjaro helps Dhanakosa

By Munisha on Thu, 10 Sep, 2015 - 15:24

This morning Steve Hornby, a mitra at Manchester Buddhist Centre, UK, started his ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest free-standing mountain in the world. 

He’s raising money for Dhanakosa Retreat Centre’s Development Fund. The money will enable the redecoration of the retreat centre this winter, a new office and meeting space and a new (second hand) Land Rover. It will also help them continue to provide retreats by donation rather than charging....

Triratna News
Triratna News

Dharmachari Buddharakshita

By Munisha on Tue, 6 Jan, 2015 - 22:25

Dharmachari Buddharakshita

By Munisha on Tue, 6 Jan, 2015 - 22:25With sadness we report the death of Buddharakshita on Sunday 4th January.

Buddharakshita was a member of the Manchester, UK, sangha. He died, unconscious, of pneumonia, just before 1pm in the Royal Oldham Hospital, with his wife Shirley and their daughter, Helen, by his bedside. He also leaves a son, Simon, and two grandchildren.

Vishangka writes, “He had gone into hospital on the Saturday, aware and chatty, but his condition later deteriorated and he was sent to...
Triratna News
Triratna News

“Pride: The Movie” - the Triratna factor

By Munisha on Fri, 12 Sep, 2014 - 00:20

“Pride: The Movie” - the Triratna factor

By Munisha on Fri, 12 Sep, 2014 - 00:20

A new British comedy film opens today in the UK. One of the conditions for the arising of this moving and hilarious film is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order: Upekshapriya, member of the Manchester sangha and longtime film-maker at Clear Vision.

Starring leading British actors Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, Pride: The Movie is an account of a little-known episode in recent British history. In the 1980s, under Margaret Thatcher’s government, a group of gay...

Buddhist Action Month 2014
Buddhist Action Month 2014

Meditation flashmob in Manchester on Thursday

By Munisha on Sun, 15 Jun, 2014 - 17:40

Meditation flashmob in Manchester on Thursday

By Munisha on Sun, 15 Jun, 2014 - 17:40Manchester’s Engaged Buddhist Kula is holding a Flashmob meditation (also known as a Medmob) in the city centre this Thursday.

More details here.

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