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OPENING - Communications Manager for Triratna NY/NJ, USA (Contract)

By Upayadhi on Sat, 29 Jan, 2022 - 22:38

OPENING - Communications Manager for Triratna NY/NJ, USA (Contract)

By Upayadhi on Sat, 29 Jan, 2022 - 22:38

Full Job Description is here: https://www.triratna-nyc.org/job-openings

LOCATION: REMOTE (ANYWHERE!)

BACKGROUND

We are hiring! Will you join us?

The Triratna Buddhist Community of New York / New Jersey has been active for close to 20 years. We are part of a larger Buddhist community, Triratna, which is present in 27 countries.

Currently there are six Order Members and about twenty Mitras connected to our local sangha, including several in the ordination training process. We have seen a good amount of growth in the...

Buddhist Centre Features

Buddhist Voices Podcast: Amarapushpa and Chandrasiddhi - Finding a Practical Sense of Wholeness

By Centre Team on Fri, 17 Sep, 2021 - 21:53

I had been looking for so long. And then I saw my first woman Order Member. And that was like the ‘fourth sight’… that inspired me to go for refuge. (Amarapushpa)
It’s not something that has to do with ideas and concepts… It’s about more practical wholeness, with your heart. (Chandrasiddhi)

Grabación en inglés y español | Recording in English and Spanish

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After a long hiatus, the Fifty Years, Fifty Voices project is back! We’re picking up where we left off before the pandemic,...

The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times

The Ministry of Presence (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 12)

By Centre Team on Wed, 8 Apr, 2020 - 12:17

A mythic sense of things is never far away in today’s conversation about radical imagination: at the most intimate levels of close, personal friendship; and also culturally, historically, politically, and spiritually as we try to meet the moment of crisis to which we are all witnesses.

With Viveka and Upayadhi we discuss taking cues from anticipatory communities who deal with systemic suffering every day, and who have stored up effective responses to some of the issues we are all now facing. The...

Community Highlights

Triratna America - NYC and the Sangha Grows

By viriyalila on Sun, 23 Jun, 2013 - 17:36

Triratna America - NYC and the Sangha Grows

By viriyalila on Sun, 23 Jun, 2013 - 17:36Vajramati has been helping pioneer Triratna America for 20 years and has spent the last 12 in New York City as a foundational member of the community there. Here Viriyalila catches up with him after a recent Mitra ceremony to rejoice in his work…

See Triratna News for the story of the exciting development Vajramati mentions - Padmadharini moving to NYC!

Triratna News

New York Sangha poised for major step forwards

By lokabandhu on Sat, 22 Jun, 2013 - 10:04

New York Sangha poised for major step forwards

By lokabandhu on Sat, 22 Jun, 2013 - 10:04There has been a Triratna group in New York City since the 1990s. For many years it’s been itinerant, meeting in cafes and people’s houses, under the leadership of Vajramati, its founder. But now it seems they’re poised to take a major step forwards - if they can get some help from the wider Sangha. Padmadharini reports on her impending move there, saying -

“I am writing to update you on some new and exciting news. And...

Triratna News

New York Sangha holds first residential women’s retreat

By lokabandhu on Wed, 19 Dec, 2012 - 06:09

New York Sangha holds first residential women’s retreat

By lokabandhu on Wed, 19 Dec, 2012 - 06:09Viriyalila writes from her home in New Hampshire, USA, from where she’s been supporting the growing Triratna sangha a few hours south in New York City. She says - “This Autumn saw the New York Triratna sangha holding its first-ever residential women’s retreat. Eight women took part in the two-day event, and I was fortunate enough to be able to be there for the occasion. The retreat was devoted to the Seven Bodhyangas, and more specifically to...