Tag: mitra

Friendship: Duty, Delight and Freedom

What kind of friend are you? What kind of friend would you like to be?

Is there any limitation to the heights that faithful friendship can reach?

Explore the possibilities of friendship with brothers and sisters in the sangha, through looking at traditional understandings of friendship in society and the spiritual life.

We will draw primarily on The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam seminar, with supporting material from the seminar on the Sigalavada Sutta. Both texts were studied by Sangharakshita in 1983. With The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam, he took...

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Included are the four volumes of the Dharma Training Course for Mitras, all 17 volumes of Sangharakshita’s lectures and seminars, the Puja Readings book, Buddhist Ceremonies in Many Languages, Crap, I’ve got Cancer (Suvarnaprabha’s moving - and very funny - reflections...

Upcoming Mitra Ceremony for Penelope

Portsmouth Buddhist Center is pleased to announce the Mitra Ceremony for Penelope Morrow on June 30, 9:30 am. Penelope has been a steady and inspiring member of our community for many years. As a professor at the University of NH, she arranged to bring hundreds of students to Aryaloka Buddhist Center over several decades. It was when to her delight that she learned Portsmouth Buddhist Center was established just a few blocks from her home that she started attending...