A Note About Sangharakshita's Health
Dear friends, We wanted to let you know that a couple of nights ago Sangharakshita was taken into hospital with a chest infection. He has been diagnosed with pneumonia and is being treated with...
View ArticleXmas Eve
For some of you it will be Xmas Eve - if you are feeling at risk join me 11am Pacific time, 2pm Eastern time and 7pm UK time - hope to see some of you Saturday December 24th - come and join me for my...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
Holiday greetings from us to you, wherever you are! Lettering made by Suriyavamsa - good advice for any season, every year…Words from the Ratnagunasamchayagatha, a Perfection of Wisdom text. Tags: Art,...
View ArticleKhemadhamma's guidance at Golden Network Dhamma Class, Nagpur
Khemadhamma visited and guided to the youths of Golden Network Dhamma Class participants at Samaratha Nagar Nagpur. It was very inspiring to connect with ourself to all participants.
View ArticleKhemadhamma at the edge of Red Light Area, Nagpur
Khemadhamma visited recently at the edge of Red Light Area project known as ‘Learning Club’ for the children to bring them in the main stream of education. This project given great opportunity to...
View ArticleSouthampton's new Buddhist Centre
Triratna’s Southampton Sangha are delighted to announce that they will shortly be moving their classes into a pub! The premises in question is the Plume of Feathers, to be found in St Mary’s, the...
View ArticleThe Power of the Mind
I’m been reading The Jataka Tales recently. They are a collection of stories attributed to the former lives of The Buddha as he inexorably moved toward enlightenment. They are at times harrowing,...
View ArticleFirst generation for education - Anjali started to walk after successful...
After Anjali’s clubfeet operation she is going to school regularly with other children of Vadaar Community. This is first generation who is walking with our donor at school to get her food.We are...
View ArticleFirst Picnic in Garden of these First Generation of vadaar Community
Those children are first time in the picnic organized by PTP. They are so happy as they got first experience of picnic at Ambazari Garden at Nagpur. Their community never been to garden and not to...
View ArticleFinding Out More About Early Buddhist Women
With this post we present another fine review by Sarah Clelland of a recent work of scholarship on women monastics in early Buddhism.Alice Collett, Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History,...
View ArticleLooking Back – New Books and Looks in 2016
We have had an exciting year at Windhorse Publications. We would like to share some of the highlights with our readers.The Complete Works of Sangharakshitawas launched. The first volume published, Dr...
View ArticleBuddhist Voices: Karunadevi - From Heartland to Heart-Mind
Karunadevi has been a practicing Buddhist since the 1980s after finding her way to California from the heartland of Iowa. The first American to be ordained in the U.S. into the Triratna Buddhist Order...
View ArticleA second Triratna centre for Sweden: Malmö
On 10th December, Sweden’s second Triratna Centre opened, in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, situated in the south, very close to Copenhagen, capital of Denmark. See Malmö on a map. (This was just...
View ArticleBhante's health: an update
Parami writes: “Dear brothers and sisters, Bhante saw the consultant today who says that the pneumonia infection seems to be clear and that he may get home in the next couple of days, which is great...
View ArticleOnline Meditations For January 2017 - Contemplating The Way Things Are
Greetings everyone! Hope you’re having a splendid festive season, wherever you are and however you are choosing to mark it. A quick note about online meditations for the start of 2017…Tuesdays January...
View ArticleClear Vision NewsByte: “Social Engagement and Liberation” conference, Nagpur
Clear Vision’s latest NewsByte (8 minutes) gives a strong impression of the atmosphere, participants and content of the ‘Social Engagement and Liberation’ conference, held 11th-14th October at...
View ArticleMitra Ceremony Sunday January 8, 2017
On Sunday, January 8, at 10AM, Portsmouth Buddhist Center joyously opens its doors to 2017 with a double Mitra ceremony for Meagan VanHoogan and Laura Horwood-Benton. A Mitra ceremony involves a...
View ArticleAvalokitesvara
This talk continues our exploration of Transforming Self and World through looking at the seven-fold puja, by exploring the mantra of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Dharmasri introduces us to...
View ArticleBreaking Through Psychological Conditioning
In this talk Dharmasri explores the concept of psychological conditioning. She takes Sangharakshita's talk 'Breaking Through into Buddhahood' as a basis for the discussion of different types of...
View ArticleThe Dhamma Revolution In the West
In this talk Dharmasri explores different aspects of Western cultural conditioning that we need to work with if we are to deepen our practice of the Dharma. Dharmasri also asks how Buddhism can be...
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