Sucimani reports back on the proceedings at the second International Triratna Council meeting in Bodhgaya, India, February 2013. UK and Ireland Area Order Weekend for Women, at Taraloka, June 2013.
From Dharmagiri Retreatcenter on Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 - 19:23Midsommar på Dharmagiri 2013 Välkommen till det traditionella midsommarfirandet på Dharmagiri för vuxna och barn. Man kan anlända redan på torsdagen. Meddela Viryabodhi när ni kommer och hur länge ni tänker stanna: viryabodhi @ gmail.com
From Community Highlights on Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 - 16:02One week from today, I’ll be packing my car and driving with Tejananda 1.5 hours south to the Santa Cruz Mountains to lead a one-month Total Immersion silent meditation retreat. 35 Order members and Mitras are ‘going forth’ from their daily lives in the US, Mexico, UK, Spain, Japan. For one month we will live as a close-knit community of the Buddha’s disciples. Our abode will be among redwood trees, mountain ridges with glimpses...
We’re making some progress on Dhammadinna’s 1993 talk Dimensions of Refuge. I’ve got about 15 minutes of side A cleaned up to deliver to Danamaya today for transcription. I’ve already begun transcribing the rest of side A, with the understanding that Danamaya or someone else will check my transcription alongside the audio. We think it will make sense to provide the full transcript when we’re done, but only the audio parts that are really listenable.
From Festivals on Fri, 14 Jun, 2013 - 10:11Buddha Day 2013 has come and gone, with celebrations of the Buddha’s Enlightenment around the Triratna Buddhist Community - many of them recorded in one form or another on The Buddhist Centre Online. Click here for a round-up of what we know about!
The next Festival in Triratna’s calendar will be Dharma Day, celebrating the Buddha’s Turning of the Wheel of the Dharma - traditionally two full moons after his Enlightenment and therefore on the...
From Triratna News on Fri, 14 Jun, 2013 - 06:24Karmavajra writes from India with the sad news of the death of Dhammachari Abhayabhadra, saying - “Dhammachari Abhayabhadra (from Pune, India) passed away on 3rd June 2013 at around 10.30 PM. He was 51 at the time of his death. His Kalyanamitras Amrutdeep and Maitreyanath were both around him at the time of his death. He was sick for more than two months, He had gall bladder surgery in March but since then he did not recover fully. He...
I’ve been a consistent Buddhafield photographer since about 2010, when I bought a new Canon SX210 compact. I started because I was aware of a very serious lack of photos about the Buddhafield Café, with which I’ve volunteered and worked for about 14 years. I’d then recently taken on development of the Buddhafield website, www.buddhafield.com, which had been stuck in the...
An inspiring talk by Kulanandi given at the Stockholm Buddhist Center in June of 2013. Kulanandi focuses on the importance of myth and concludes with a reflection exercise.
(a couple of minutes are missing from the beginning of the talk due to a technical mishap)
