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Letter from the Chair of the College – March 2025

By Mahamati on Sat, 1 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

Letter from the Chair of the College – March 2025

By Mahamati on Sat, 1 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

Dear Order members and friends,

Formerly one needed courage to attack institutions. Now one needs courage to defend them – and still more courage to create them.

This aphorism of Sangharakshita first appeared in print in 1998 in A Stream of Stars: Reflections and Aphorisms. However, as with many of his published aphorisms, we have no information about the context in which it was first said or written - it is quite possible that Bhante had jotted this down much earlier. Like...

College of Public Preceptors

Letter from the Chair of the College – February 2025

By Mahamati on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 00:00

Letter from the Chair of the College – February 2025

By Mahamati on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 00:00

Dear Order members and friends,

In 1949, when visiting Bodhgaya for the first time, Sangharakshita wrote a poem called ‘The Birthplace of Compassion’. Now, seventy-five years later, on the centenary of his birth, I send this letter from this very place, where around 800 members of the Order that Sangharakshita went on to found, are gathered for an International Order Convention.

Here, where the Goatherd’s banyan-tree
O’ershadowed, was, to world forlorn,
The first child of Enlightenment,
...

College of Public Preceptors

Chairs' Letter – September 2022

By ratnadharini on Fri, 30 Sep, 2022 - 22:03

Chairs' Letter – September 2022

By ratnadharini on Fri, 30 Sep, 2022 - 22:03

Dear Order Members and Friends,

I’m writing this month’s update from Aryaloka retreat centre, in the US. When I first became College Chair I planned to connect up with Order members outside the UK, but Covid restrictions put international travel on hold for a couple of years. Three weeks ago I set off on a road trip with Aryadrishti, one of the American Order Convenors, taking in some of the places I’ve not been to before: Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Missoula,...

Windhorse Publications

Don’t miss the launch of our next book!

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 24 Aug, 2022 - 15:03

Don’t miss the launch of our next book!

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 24 Aug, 2022 - 15:03

This week we’ve got a date for your diary: the online launch of our next book, Nagapriya’s The Promise of a Sacred World. We’ve also got news from the Order Convention, and a video clip from Complete Works editor-in-chief, Vidyadevi.

The Promise of a Sacred World: online book launch

Don’t miss the launch of Nagapriya’s latest book, The Promise of a Sacred World: Shinran’s Teaching of Other Power. The launch will take place at 7:30 pm UK time on Tuesday, 30th August. Ratnaguna will...

Buddhist Centre Features

Follow the Pan-American Order Convention On The Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Mon, 26 Oct, 2015 - 01:41

Follow the Pan-American Order Convention On The Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Mon, 26 Oct, 2015 - 01:41

All this week we’ll be bringing you coverage of the best bits (talks, podcast interviews, images, the odd wee video) from the Pan-American Convention, just getting underway here in the astonishingly beautiful sugar cane country near Cuernavaca, Mexico. We’ve got a 3G connection and we’re going to go for it to keep you in touch as Order members gather from across the American continent to share their Dharma inspiration.

You’ll hear new voices and accents, (at...