Welcome to the online community space for the wonderful Buddhafield Family Friendly Retreats. We no longer need to only meet in a field for a week a year. This is also for other child-friendly communities within Triratna / Buddhafield as a point of reference.
About the Original Buddhafield Child Friendly
The first child-friendly summer retreat within Buddhafield / Triratna began over 14 years ago, also known as the Village Retreat or Child Friendly. Infact...
From Triratna News on Mon, 15 Jul, 2013 - 05:23Upekshamati writes from Triratna’s Mexico Sangha with some of the news of the many new developments there, saying - “After the opening of two new Buddhist centres in Mexico last year (the Coyoacan Buddhist Centre right at the south of Mexico City and the Comunidad Budista Triratna Queretaro three hours from the capital) we have had a period of new projects developing.
A small group of women have started a shop - our Sangha’s first...
From Triratna News on Sun, 14 Jul, 2013 - 06:00Triratna’s Birmingham Buddhist Centre sits in the middle of a cluster of smaller towns and cities in the UK’s Midlands - Wolverhampton, Redditch, Warwick, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield… And now they’ve got their own Buddhist ‘outreach’ worker, in the form of Dharmashalin. A local Mitra led the fundraising, he concluded that the best contribution he could make was to stay in his well-paid job and support someone else to go out and teach. And so he did!
From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 09:47Amalavajra writes in memory of his friend and co-worker Manjusvara, who died unexpectedly two years ago, saying - “You may be aware that June is the 2nd anniversary of Manjusvara’s death, and this June would have been his 60th Birthday.
You may have noticed today that some things about the site have changed. If we were an App on your computer or phone (which isn’t a bad way to think about it) this would be version 1.5 or thereabouts! The Buddhist Centre Online has been up and running in what we consider its basic form (version 1.0) for just over a year, and we’ve had a proper home page for six months now. So it was time to take stock...
It’s a noble task to bring order members together frequently. It helps us to keep continue our going for refuge effectively and it helps others as well. It has not resolved many disputes between order members but definitely coming together just as an order member in Chapter, order days, order weekends, Order conventions helps everybody to unite ourselves with common going for refuge to Triratna. Regional order conveners of India are so fortunate that they got this opportunity to serve...
From Triratna News on Tue, 9 Jul, 2013 - 06:52Jnanacandra writes from Germany with news of their 25th anniversary celebrations, saying - “Buddhistisches Zentrum Essen - Triratna’s Buddhist Centre in Essen, Germany - just celebrated its 25th anniversary. This coincides with the 30 year anniversary of Triratna activities in Germany which also started in Essen.
Several speakers related their memories of the past two and a half decades, from the very first beginnings when Dhammaloka and Dharmapriya started Buddhist activities in their private flat in...
Week five of a five week seminar on the Metta Bhavana practice.
