Tag: Triratna Buddhist Community

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Dharmabytes: Convention in India

By Zac on Mon, 24 Apr, 2023 - 06:00

Subhadramati shares her experience traveling to India for the International Order Convention. Excerpted from the talk Ordination and the Unity of the Sangha giving at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre as part of a series on the Six Distinctive Emphasis of the Triratna Buddhist Community. A talk full of energy, insight and inspiration on Ordination within Triratna, given in 2016.

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FBA Podcast: Living In Interesting Times - Now It's Really Getting Interesting

By Zac on Sat, 8 Apr, 2023 - 06:00

At the Order Convention in 1989 Nagabodhi gave a talk: ‘Living in Interesting Times’ in which he explored some of the challenges facing our Order in the coming years as our internal and external conditions changed. He returned to the theme at an Order event in 2003, and then most recently with this talk given at the Order Convention in 2016: “Living in Interesting Times; Now it’s Really Getting Interesting”. As well as reviewing whether any of...

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Dharmabytes: Sensitivity to Conditions

By Zac on Thu, 6 Apr, 2023 - 06:00

Vidyatara speaks of her work supporting the Order under the framework of the Four Lineages.

Excerpted from the talk Co-Creating Structures That Serve the Arising of the Bodhicitta given at the Triratna Buddhist Order Womens UK and Ireland Area Order Weekend at Adhisthana, 2014. The theme for the weekend was Appreciation of the Order as a System.

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Dharmabytes: Still Friends - New Name

By Zac on Tue, 4 Apr, 2023 - 18:00

With humour and engaging personal stories, Padmavajra speaks to the moment in our collective history when Bhante Sangharakshita changed the name of our community from Friends of the Western Buddhist Order to Triratna Buddhist Community.

Excerpted from the short talk Changing Our Name to Triratna Buddhist Community given at the Triratna International Retreat, May 2010.

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