Tag: Poetry

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

The final Unseen Sangharakshita video talk has just been released by the Triratna Video Library

Over the past twelve months the Triratna Video Library has celebrated Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with the video releases of twelve talks by Sangharakshita which have never edited or seen. Each talk has been presented with English subtitles and some with additional Spanish subtitles. These talks covering various topics, locations and years have hopefully enriched your connection with, and appreciation of, Bhante as well as...

Community Highlights

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

By Vishvapani on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

By Vishvapani on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Vishvapani in the recent edition of Tricycle:

Alfoxton Park in Somerset, southwest England, sits halfway up a long incline that rises from the Bristol Channel to the Quantock Hills. The main house, built in a neoclassical style in 1710, could be home to a Jane Austen heroine. But look more closely and you see crumbling plasterwork, decaying windows, and a tumbledown roof. I’ve come to know Alfoxton since 2020, when it became home to a community of Buddhists from the
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Croydon Buddhist Centre

Dreaming the Real: Poetry Night

By Gambhiralila on Thu, 22 Feb, 2024 - 15:46

Dreaming the Real: Poetry Night

By Gambhiralila on Thu, 22 Feb, 2024 - 15:46

Dreaming the Real: Poetry Night
Saturday 24 February, 7:00pm-9:00pm
With special guests including Vishvantara and Annabeth Glittermouse Orton
A fundraiser for Tiratanaloka Unlimited, suggested donation: £15
In person and on Zoom

“Buddhism and art […] are indispensable to a balanced spiritual life.” Sangharakshita, The Meaning of Buddhism and the Value of Art Developing the imagination and sensitivity for beauty is a key part of the spiritual path. Art can have a profound emotional impact and communicate the mystery...

Buddhist Centre Features

Following the White Deer

By Centre Team on Wed, 29 Nov, 2023 - 15:06

Following the White Deer

By Centre Team on Wed, 29 Nov, 2023 - 15:06

🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.

A Home Retreat led by Paramananda and Bodhilila

Friday January 19th till Thursday January 25th 2024

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In many human cultures white deer hold a place of deep significance, being often met at the edges or boundaries of personal or communal land and experience. Sometimes they appear as messengers from the otherworld, as in Celtic mythology; in some North American...

Triratna News

Sangharakshita Songs

By Centre Team on Sun, 22 Oct, 2023 - 16:43

Sangharakshita Songs

By Centre Team on Sun, 22 Oct, 2023 - 16:43

Next February a date has been scheduled to record a setting of 8 poems by Sangharakshita, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the South African baritone Theo Magongoma. Entitled Sangharakshita Songs, they can be heard here in a piano version with Manidhara/Graham Titus:

Listen to the piano version of Sangharakshita Songs

Listen to more pieces on on Akashadeva’s web site

Essentially, the plan is to combine this work with the existing 2019 recording of the Carbon Symphony, and to launch a worldwide CD and streaming platform release of...

Buddhist Centre Features

Watch the Alfoxton Film Exclusively on the Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Fri, 29 Sep, 2023 - 20:08

Watch the Alfoxton Film Exclusively on the Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Fri, 29 Sep, 2023 - 20:08

THE BUDDHIST CENTRE [ONLINE] presents ‘A Renovating Virtue’, a poetic and affecting documentary by Hartley Woolf, capturing a year in the life of the Triratna Buddhist community who have taken on the ambitious task of renovating the dilapidated estate of Alfoxton Park in the heart of the Somerset countryside.

Once home to William and Dorothy Wordsworth, the community’s vision is to run the house as an arts and meditation retreat centre. Following the seasons, the film beautifully reveals...

Buddhist Centre Features

The Poetics of Awakening - Dedicated Site for Our New Home Retreat

By Centre Team on Sun, 15 Jan, 2023 - 15:30

The Poetics of Awakening - Dedicated Site for Our New Home Retreat

By Centre Team on Sun, 15 Jan, 2023 - 15:30

It’s only five days till our new Home Retreat begins! There’s still time to join Paramananda and Bodhilila for a week of meditation, poetry and deep engagement with the Dharma life as it manifests day by day. With over 100 bookings already it’s sure to be a wonderful community event, offering encouragement and support for your practice from two of Triratna’s best-loved meditation teachers.

Visit the dedicated site for ‘The Poetics of Awakening’

Awake my dear
Be kind to your sleeping
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Buddhist Centre Features

The Poetics of Awakening - A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Bodhilila

By Centre Team on Wed, 7 Dec, 2022 - 10:37

The Poetics of Awakening - A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Bodhilila

By Centre Team on Wed, 7 Dec, 2022 - 10:37

Led by Paramananda and Bodhilila | Friday January 20th till Thursday January 26th 2023

What does it mean to really wake up? Join us for an opening of the heart and imagination to our own deepest nature and place in the world.

Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.

The Buddha was known as the Awakened One, but what does it mean to really wake up? Buddhism is clear that this awakening is...

London Buddhist Centre

PoetryEast with Dara McAnulty

By Maitreyabandhu on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 17:22

PoetryEast with Dara McAnulty

By Maitreyabandhu on Mon, 25 Jul, 2022 - 17:22

Saturday, 30th July, 7.30pm (in-person, watch this space for details of the YouTube Premiere online, coming soon!)

Dara McAnulty is a Northern Irish naturalist, writer and environmental campaigner. In 2015, when just 15 years old, he became the youngest ever winner of the RSPB Medal and received the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing in 2020, after the release of his debut book ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’, which chronicles the turning of his fourteenth year and details his intense connection to the...

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