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Guided video meditations in Russian, Turkish, French and English - and an appeal for Translators...

By lokabandhu on Mon, 13 Aug, 2012 - 12:54

Guided video meditations in Russian, Turkish, French and English - and an appeal for Translators...

By lokabandhu on Mon, 13 Aug, 2012 - 12:54Triratna has a growing number of non-English introductions to Buddhism and meditation available online, and today we have news of three new offerings: guided meditation videos in French, Russian and Turkish, courtesy of Order members Suvannavira in Moscow and Vajracaksu in Istanbul.

Suvannavira writes saying “The idea was to have full-length video guided meditations on the body that people could meditate along with, and use to receive basic instruction on posture for meditation. They can also serve as resources...

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First Triratna retreat held in Turkey

By lokabandhu on Wed, 11 Jul, 2012 - 05:55

First Triratna retreat held in Turkey

By lokabandhu on Wed, 11 Jul, 2012 - 05:55Vajracaksu, Triratna’s lone Turkish Order Member, writes with an update from Istanbul - including news of the first-ever Turkish retreat! He says - “Hello Triratna News, it’s been a long time since I gave you all some news. Things ‘Triratna’ are slowly developing here in Turkey, ‘slowly’ however is definitely the operative word. Usually I give three to five classes a week, numbers are usually very small, anything from 1 to 8 people usually.

I think I mentioned in...