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Triratna Resources

Pujas (in English and Other Languages)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 23:32

Here are some older versions of some the main pujas and other ceremonies as practiced in Triratna – in several languages.

This search for ‘puja’ on The Buddhist Centre Online yields considerably updated resources

Also see Triratna Translations for many more translations of key ritual texts used in the Triratna Buddhist Community

File Name	Size
Akshobhya Puja - Deutsch (PDF)	55.72 KB
Bodhicaryavatara Puma - Deutsch (PDF)	51.18 KB
De Korte Poeja (PDF)	31.83 KB
Dedication Ceremony (PDF)	22.66 KB
Die Siebenfaltige Puja (PDF)	65.61 KB
Einfache Puja (PDF)	28.11 KB
Irische Puja - Deutsch (PDF)	46.3 KB
La Puja En Sept Parties (PDF)	80.79 KB
Le Sutra du Coeur (PDF)	48.2 KB
Puja aus der Gandavyuha Sutra (PDF)	53.44 KB
The Heart Sutra (PDF)	35.37 KB
The Sevenfold Puja (PDF)	44.52 KB
The Threefold Puja (PDF)	170.78 KB
Ti Ratana Vandana (PDF)	28.01 KB
Ti Ratana Vandana - Deutsch (PDF)	45.68 KB
Weihungszeremonie (PDF)	27.06 KB
Семичленная пуджа (PDF)	72.83 KB
Сердечна cутра (PDF)	59.54 KB

Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Imagination, Beauty and Ritual, An Eight-Week Course (Padmavajri)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 22:41

This course over eight weeks on The Place of Imagination, Beauty, and Ritual in the Spiritual Life was provided by Padmavajri from the Brighton Buddhist Centre.

Padmavajri says: “I led two groups on this. The course was aimed at any Mitras and it turned out I had a group of experienced Mitras, and a group of newer Mitras (one or two years old)… The two groups here loved it, enjoyed it, were challenged by it, and also were helped to understand ritual and the arts...

File Name	Size
Overview (PDF)	68.4 KB
Week 1 - Emotional Energy and Spiritual Aspiration (PDF)	77.03 KB
Week 2 - Faith and Non-faith (PDF)	72.21 KB
Week 3 - The Psychology of the Spiritual Life (PDF)	75.7 KB
Week 4 - The Life and Death of the Imagination (PDF)	77.7 KB
Week 5 - Beauty and the Hierarchy of Art (PDF)	82.72 KB
Week 6 - The Dharma in Poetry (PDF)	77.05 KB
Week 7 - The Psychology of Ritual (PDF)	75.31 KB
Week 8 - Approaching the Sevenfold Puja (PDF)	76.48 KB

Triratna Resources

Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Ritual and Devotion, A Course In Six-Weeks (Vajrapriya)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 22:12

Exploring the psychology and meaning of Buddhist ritual through the ‘Sevenfold Puja’

A six-week course exploring Buddhist ritual. Provided by Vajrapriya, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK. Module 5 of Vajrapriya’s Buddhism Two Course in six modules.

Download this overview here

Overview

Who/what do Buddhists worship? Commitment to a path of personal development.
The practice of openness, disclosure and confession.
The importance of developing positive emotion.
Receptivity: turning towards what is deepest in ourselves and the universe.
The ‘Awakening Heart’

File Name	Size
Ritual and Devotion - A Course In Six-Weeks by Vajrapriya (zip)	2.19 MB

Buddhist Centre Features

A Morning Puja - Four Reminders, Three Terrible Oaths

By sheena on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 13:52

A Morning Puja - Four Reminders, Three Terrible Oaths

By sheena on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 13:52

The Terrible Oaths bit is something that Dayaka added for Buddhafield North to Vessantara’s Morning Puja!

It’s very helpful and bracing if I pay attention to it…

The Four Reminders
Life has inevitable difficulties. No one can control it all.

This body is impermanent. Death is certain.

The karma I create shapes the course of my life.

This human birth is precious, an opportunity to awaken.

These four reminders
...

Breaking the chains - buddhist rituals to set you free

Week 7 - Transference of Merit and Self Surrender

By Bodhidasa on Sun, 23 Aug, 2015 - 06:38

Week 7 - Transference of Merit and Self Surrender

By Bodhidasa on Sun, 23 Aug, 2015 - 06:38

We come to the end of the course and the end of the devotional sequence - Transference of Merit and Self Surrender. Here, in this last stage of the puja, we uncover the secret behind the whole practice.

This short video (7 minutes) is a rough summary of the stages of the puja using a different metaphor - that of climbing a mountain.

Remember - this week you have been requesting to bring a device with which you can access the internet. We will...

Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Manjusri Mantra with Harmonies

By Rijupatha on Sun, 26 Jul, 2015 - 03:41

Our FBA Dharmabyte today drops us into the realm of ritual with a Manjusri Mantra with Harmonies. From a special Sevenfold Puja recorded on at Jikoji Retreat Center, California, 2008 on a Triratna Buddhist Order Convention. This excerpt is lovely harmonic chanting of the Manjushri (Manjugosha) mantra.

Listen to the full puja – it’s unusual to hear these rituals performed in Sanskrit and English, so a real treat for all ritual lovers courtesy of...

Bristol Buddhist Centre

Day 6: A Puja To Ratnasambhava

By Centre Team on Tue, 24 Mar, 2015 - 22:46

Rounding off day 6 of Living In The Mandala we have another puja that steers to the deep when it comes to evoking the guardian Buddha of the moment, in this case Ratnasambhava - the Jewel-Born, archetypal Buddha of abundance, spiritual riches and the South…

Complete with flute-accompanied mantra!

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Bristol Buddhist Centre

Day 5: A Puja To Amoghasiddhi

By Centre Team on Sat, 21 Mar, 2015 - 18:18

A strong, stirring puja dedicated to Amoghasiddhi, the archetypal, unstoppable green Buddha of the North. This ritual features dedicated sections and readings that call forth Amoghasiddhi’s great qualities of fearlessness as well as the magical realm he inhabits. We are also treated to words enjoining us to practise empathy and sympathetic joy (mudita) in all our relationship. This puja includes some beautiful mantra chanting and lovely verses to Green Tara, Amoghasiddhi’s consort, used to help face and overcome our fears…...

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