College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Chair's Letter – March 2024

By ratnadharini on Sun, 31 Mar, 2024 - 20:00

Chair's Letter – March 2024

By ratnadharini on Sun, 31 Mar, 2024 - 20:00

Dear Order Members and friends,

Last month Vajrashura’s ‘letter from the College’ grew out of the men’s Private Preceptors’ retreat at Adhisthana and the five talks given by Subhuti during that event based on Bhante Sangharakshita’s paper ‘What is the Western Buddhist Order?’. (Subhuti has been interviewed by Jyotika on the topic of this paper, and the interview is available here.)

The women’s Private Preceptors’ retreat later that month focussed on Bhante’s ‘My Relation to the...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Insight and Imagination: Meditating on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa

By Caroline I P on Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 - 10:30

Insight and Imagination: Meditating on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa

By Caroline I P on Thu, 10 Aug, 2023 - 10:30

On this retreat Vessantara will guide us through practices that will penetrate to the the wisdom at the heart of this text. Through symbols and imagery we will bring about a mystic marriage of insight and imagination.

So, how do you practise a Mahayana sutra? Can you take it deep into your being, so that it’s vision affects your whole life?

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