Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

By Prajnaketu on Fri, 8 Jul, 2016 - 10:10

Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

By Prajnaketu on Fri, 8 Jul, 2016 - 10:10

Adhisthana Dharma-Life Training Course

for Young Men

12/02/2017 to 02/07/2017

The course aims to give you a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of Triratna Buddhism and you will have the opportunity to live an intense and full-time Dharma life for 20 weeks. It will be fully residential, and you will be living in a designated community space at Adhisthana. Community living is an important part of the course and you will be sharing a room whilst you are here. As well as a series...

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Sub25s retreat - an Opportunity to Awaken 1st-3rd July

By Prajnaketu on Thu, 23 Jun, 2016 - 16:31

Sub25s retreat - an Opportunity to Awaken 1st-3rd July

By Prajnaketu on Thu, 23 Jun, 2016 - 16:31

Adhisthana, Herefordshire UK

A weekend open to all aged under 25, newcomers and regulars, exploring what it means to live a meaningful life as young people, what we can offer the world and how we can move forward together.

Book now -
adhisthana.org/retreat/?ev=92

£70/50 with bursary places available

Triratna News
Triratna News

Sangharakshita's diary

By Munisha on Wed, 15 Jun, 2016 - 23:42

Sangharakshita's diary

By Munisha on Wed, 15 Jun, 2016 - 23:42

Sthanashraddha is Sangharakshita’s secretary. He writes:

“Looking out of the window here in the annexe and seeing the trees now in full leaf it’s hard to imagine they were so bare and stark but a couple of months ago. Our late spring is rushing headlong into summer and the great field has had two or three cuts now, in almost as many weeks. Plants and flowers are emerging everywhere and while the cuckoo was heard here last month, now morning walks and tea breaks are accompanied...

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

A Body of Practice - Satyapara

By Prajnaketu on Fri, 15 Apr, 2016 - 10:56

Drawing upon the myths in the life of the Buddha Satyapara explores the role the body plays when we take up Buddhist practice. She describes the Buddha as a child under a rose apple tree being deeply in touch with his surrounding and when calling upon the earth he gains confidence in his practice and overcomes his doubts. With this stories Satyapara invites us to trust our body. Given in Cambridge in the Young Peoples Evening.

Triratna News
Triratna News

New Chair for Birmingham Buddhist Centre

By Munisha on Wed, 13 Apr, 2016 - 11:57

New Chair for Birmingham Buddhist Centre

By Munisha on Wed, 13 Apr, 2016 - 11:57

Birmingham Buddhist Centre, UK, has a new Chair. Maitrisara writes:

“At the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, we have been welcoming our new Chair, Singhamati, and saying goodbye and thank you to Samacitta, our Chair for the last eight years. Samacitta is returning to Australia to care for her elderly mother.

The handover took place on on Triratna Day, 10th April, within the context of a sevenfold puja led by Paramartha, our Centre President and attended by nearly one hundred people.

On Friday 8th April, we spent...

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Buddhism: Beyond the Science of Flow

By Prajnaketu on Thu, 31 Mar, 2016 - 12:55

Prajnaketu leads the Ghent sangha through an experience of ‘flow’ and describes how Buddhism offers a systematic path to ever more satisfying and absorbing mental states, taking the mind beyond the limitations of contemporary psychology and articulating a response to evil in the world. Given on the 22nd of March.

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Rainer's Pilgrimage

By Prajnaketu on Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 18:22

Rainer Pretz from Essen, Germany joins Prajnaketu to talk about his pilgrimage to the UK and visiting Bhante Sangharakshita.

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Buddhism and Grassroots Revolution (Discussion)

By Prajnaketu on Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 11:46

Questions and answers with the Essen Young Buddhists on what’s happening in the Oxford Sangha now; simplicity vs activity; being a Buddhist in the world… and German engineering. With a German translation from Rainer Pretz.

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Mixed Young Buddhist Community in Berlin

By Prajnaketu on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 21:30

Prajnaketu talks to Tobi, Inga, Hannah and Tim - members of the first mixed Triratna Buddhist community in Germany - to find out what it’s like living and practising together and how they started out.

Triratna Young Buddhists
Triratna Young Buddhists

Buddhism and Elite Athletics

By Prajnaketu on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 12:03

Prajnaketu gives an informal talk on how elite athletics can be a way into understanding Buddhist training in the 21st Century. From the Young People’s Night at the Buddhistisches Tor Berlin.

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