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Adhisthana: new video and dedication weekend

By Munisha on Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 - 12:03

Adhisthana: new video and dedication weekend

By Munisha on Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 - 12:03Adhisthana, Triratna’s newest retreat centre and home to our founder, Sangharakshita, opens this weekend in Herefordshire, UK, with a two-day dedication weekend. The Buddhist Centre Online will be reporting and we hope to see lots of you there!

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To whet your appetite, the Clear...

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Urgent! Help needed to prepare Adhisthana for opening

By Munisha on Tue, 23 Jul, 2013 - 02:56

Urgent! Help needed to prepare Adhisthana for opening

By Munisha on Tue, 23 Jul, 2013 - 02:56Danasamudra is the administrator at Adhisthana, in Herefordshire. She writes:

“As we get near to the opening of Adhisthana (3 & 4th August) we are very much in need of help from volunteers to make sure it’s ready in time.

We need people to do a variety of jobs including cleaning, moving furniture and preparing rooms, tidying the garden and grounds, unpacking deliveries and putting things away. There are probably other tasks too but these...

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Sangharakshita's new home - Adhisthana

By lokabandhu on Mon, 4 Mar, 2013 - 12:34

Sangharakshita's new home - Adhisthana

By lokabandhu on Mon, 4 Mar, 2013 - 12:34Last week Triratna News hosted a series of five short videos introducing the new home for Sangharakshita and the wider community and project around him, leading up to the announcement of the new name on the last day of Triratna’s International Order Convention, then in full swing at Bodh Gaya, place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment.

We’re delighted to bring you news that it is… ADHISTHANA.

Not only that, Sangharakshita has taken up residence...

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Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part V

By lokabandhu on Fri, 1 Mar, 2013 - 04:16

Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part V

By lokabandhu on Fri, 1 Mar, 2013 - 04:16Today, in the last of our series of five short videos introducing the new home for the Sangharakshita Land Project, we meet the community itself: men and women, members of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order, living and working together in a multitude of different ways but all, ultimately, aiming to cooperate to create conditions for the arising of the Bodhicitta. It’s been winter, and not an easy time to be moving in to an old and unheated...

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Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part IV

By lokabandhu on Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 - 04:57

Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part IV

By lokabandhu on Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 - 04:57This week Triratna News is presenting a special series of five short videos introducing the new home for the Sangharakshita Land Project and indeed for Sangharakshita himself. Purchased late last year, on Saturday this week Sangharakshita will announce its new name to the assembled Order, currently gathered at Bodh Gaya for the triennial International Order Convention.

On day I of the week we reported it’s currently undergoing major renovations - especially to the drains! Today’s theme is ‘Making...

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Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part III

By lokabandhu on Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 - 04:43

Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part III

By lokabandhu on Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 - 04:43For the third in this week’s special series of five short videos on the new home for the Sangharakshita Land Project, we take (or double-take) a look at the new shrine room. When complete it’ll be Triratna’s largest, with room for 500 people - at present, much vision is required! Join Mokshapriya as he takes a long and imaginative look into Triratna’s future…

At the end of the week, on Saturday, Dhammarati will announce the Centre’s new...

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Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part II

By lokabandhu on Tue, 26 Feb, 2013 - 04:35

Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part II

By lokabandhu on Tue, 26 Feb, 2013 - 04:35We continue this week’s special series of five short videos - and commentary - on the new home for the Sangharakshita Land Project, with a look at the proposed Sangharakshita Library and Exhibition Centre. Mokshapriya - a central figure in the search for the property - explains the vision lying behind these two new and important members of Triratna’s ‘family’ of institutions.

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Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part I

By lokabandhu on Mon, 25 Feb, 2013 - 04:20

Introducing the Sangharakshita Land Project’s new home - part I

By lokabandhu on Mon, 25 Feb, 2013 - 04:20This week Triratna News presents a special series of five short videos - with commentary - on the new home for the Sangharakshita Land Project and indeed for Sangharakshita himself. In the first, amid changeable winter weather, Mokshapriya shows us round the main house and explains what it takes to restore an 18th century English country house in Herefordshire, UK. When completed, it will be Triratna’s largest retreat centre catering for over 100 retreatants plus...