Tag: Urgyen Sangharakshita

Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

By Candradasa on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

By Candradasa on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

DISCOVERING THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF TRIRATNA’S FOUNDER
SATURDAY 6TH – WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

Get to know the man at the heart of Triratna!

Join us for five days of practice, dialogue, storytelling and contemplation as we explore the life and teachings of Sangharakshita, the founding teacher of the Triratna Buddhist Community. Through talks, meditation and discussion we will trace how one man’s journey—from post-war Britain to...

College of Public Preceptors

Urgyen Sangharakshita at 100

By Mahamati on Sat, 4 Jan, 2025 - 15:40

Urgyen Sangharakshita at 100

By Mahamati on Sat, 4 Jan, 2025 - 15:40

Dear friends of Triratna worldwide,

I am happy to write to you all at the start of the Birth Centenary Year of our precious teacher Urgyen Sangharakshita.

This is not only about looking back, so as to better understand and appreciate our founder and teacher, important though this is; it is also a special opportunity to look forward and put in place the best conditions for the unfolding of Bhante’s presentation of the Dharma in...

College of Public Preceptors

Chair's Letter – July 2023 – Subhadramati

By Subhadramati on Tue, 1 Aug, 2023 - 17:55

Chair's Letter – July 2023 – Subhadramati

By Subhadramati on Tue, 1 Aug, 2023 - 17:55

This month’s update from the College is a bumper edition before we take a break in August…

Recently the Ordination courses at Guhyaloka and Akashavana were completed, led by Maitreyabandhu and Subhadramati respectively; and the College-led ‘Lineage Retreat’ at Adhisthana was a great success, for which Mahamati was on the team. We wanted to share something from each of these aspects of the College’s work, and asked Subhadramati and Mahamati to write more fully.

I will be taking part in...

Community Highlights

Join Windhorse Publications’ Upcoming Online Book Launch

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 - 12:40

Join Windhorse Publications’ Upcoming Online Book Launch

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 - 12:40

Join Windhorse Publications for the online book launch of Nagabodhi’s page-turning biography, Sangharakshita: The Boy, the Monk, the Man. In it, Nagabodhi gives a vivid account of Sangharakshita’s life, what it was like to live among his committed followers, and the controversies he left behind.

The book launch will take place from 19:00 to 20:30 GMT on Wednesday 1st March, when Nagabodhi will be in conversation with Saddhanandi. Nagabodhi has a reputation...

Buddhist Centre Features

Bhante's Birthday: Celebratory Puja at Adhisthana

By Centre Team on Fri, 20 Aug, 2021 - 12:24

Bhante's Birthday: Celebratory Puja at Adhisthana

By Centre Team on Fri, 20 Aug, 2021 - 12:24

Thursday 26th August

Thursday the August 26th 2021 would have been the 96th birthday of Urygen Sangharakshita (affectionately called Bhante, meaning ‘teacher’). Through founding the Triratna order and community, Bhante has set up conditions for the Dharma to be communicated...

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365 Days of Bhante

By Maitriyogini on Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 - 14:06

365 Days of Bhante

By Maitriyogini on Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 - 14:06

A significant aspect of our work here at Adhisthana is to keep alive the spirit of our founder and teacher, Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita, in the years after his passing on the 20th October 2018. There are many ways that we do this - by passing on his teachings; providing a context for people to visit his last residence and resting place; preserving and making available his library; and by celebrating his anniversaries.

We would like to bring more of the flavour of...