Tag: Viradhamma

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Eight Guidelines | Understanding the Principles of Triratna

By akasajoti on Thu, 23 Jun, 2022 - 11:29

Eight Guidelines | Understanding the Principles of Triratna

By akasajoti on Thu, 23 Jun, 2022 - 11:29

Karunadevi and Viradhamma, from California USA, share some of their reflections on the principles of the Triratna Order and Community, in a series of informal, personal, conversations between Public Preceptors about the Eight Guidelines for Ordination Training.

The Eight Guidelines offer a framework through which Order Members and Mitras can reflect on and communicate about their going for refuge and process of training for Ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order. In this series, members of the Preceptors’ College from around the...
Triratna News
Triratna News

From A Vision to A Reality: The Sangha in the US and Canada

By Sadayasihi on Tue, 10 Sep, 2019 - 18:04
  • The first post-ordination retreat for newly ordained women in US and Canada: (left to right) Amala, Vimalasara, Karunadevi and Padmatara (all preceptors), Muditalila (San Antonio, TX), Saddhavasini (Aryaloka, NH), Medhahshri (San Francisco), Viriyasati (Vancouver), Kamalasiri (Aryaloka, NH), Amaradhi (Seattle, WA) and Shraddhadharma (Hawaii). Not pictured and on the retreat was Acalavajri (Akashavana).
  • Men's Ordination training retreat, May 2019
  • At Karunashanti's ordination
  • Left to right: Shantinayaka, Karunashanti and Viradhamma
  • Shrine at Dharmadhara, San Francisco

From A Vision to A Reality: The Sangha in the US and Canada

By Sadayasihi on Tue, 10 Sep, 2019 - 18:04

“An ever-widening circle, the Sangha grows…”

From its beginnings in 1980, when Manjuvajra first brought Triratna Dharma to Boston, the Sangha in Canada and the United States has been ever-growing. The current year has seen a number of significant steps forward for the Triratna Buddhist Community’s ordination process in North America. 

In May the first ever post-ordination retreat for US/Canadian Dharmacharinis (female Order members) took place with seven of the twelve Dharmacharinis ordained in the last two years attending the...
Triratna News
Triratna News

New American charity supports the Indian Buddhist Revival

By lokabandhu on Mon, 1 Oct, 2012 - 05:32

New American charity supports the Indian Buddhist Revival

By lokabandhu on Mon, 1 Oct, 2012 - 05:32Viradhamma writes from San Francisco with news of a new Triratna charity - an American-Indian joint venture to be known as DharmaJiva, which aims to support the Indian Buddhist Revival by raising awareness across America and providing support for social projects and Dharma teaching in India. He says - “The Buddhist Revival in India has brought the Dharma to hundreds of thousands of people, but most people outside India know little about this remarkable movement. However it has...