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Freedom in a Mad World

By sanghadhara on Tue, 22 May, 2012 - 10:27The 5th Annual Triratna Young Buddhist Retreat!

October 12-14 2012

Triratna’s annual big Young Buddhists weekend. The theme for 2012 is “freedom in a mad world”. Here’s some info -

Looking around us we can clearly see forces of madness at work in the world: greed, hatred and delusion played out on a grand scale. However, what we sometimes don’t see is that we ourselves are entangled in that net of confusion and fear: that greed,...

German Young People's Sangha Celebrates First Retreat

By lokabandhu on Wed, 22 Feb, 2012 - 05:38Mat New, a young Triratna Buddhist from Birmingham, UK writes about his recent retreat - in Essen, Germany, where the German young people’s sangha have just celebrated their first retreat. He says - “The retreat was at Vimaladhatu, a beautiful Triratna retreat Centre nestled in the pine forests and hills of the Sauerland region not far from Triratna’s Essen Buddhist Centre. Alokavira and Aryabandhu, who were leading the weekend, each offered a talk and their...

Full Moon meditation raises over £1,000 for Indian Buddhist youth project

By lokabandhu on Wed, 23 Nov, 2011 - 05:24The November full moon saw young Triratna Buddhists around the UK and India meditating all night, many of them fundraising in aid of NNBY’s ‘Bihar Girls Project’ - which raised over UK £1,000 overnight! NNBY are Triratna’s Indian ‘National Network of Buddhist Youth’, active all over India but currently focusing on Bihar due to the extreme difficulties faced by the people there - and especially girls.

Chetan Meshram writes from India...