There’s something about hearing a familiar text in a language other than your own that can be quite arresting. Words you can feel the meaning in even though you don’t, exactly, ‘understand’; words shared between people and also between peoples: across cultures, beyond language. Here’s Achalavajra with one of the first fruits of the Afrikaans translation initiative reading the Threefold Puja (the English version of the text can be found here). Wonderful sound, wonderful shared sense…
Here are direct download version of the updated version (December 2018) of Seven Papers, including What Is the Western Buddhist Order? and the revised version of Initiation Into A New Life.
From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 13 Apr, 2013 - 15:19Come face to face with the Great Emptiness at the heart of practice.
Our FBA Podcast this week, “The Tiger’s Cave,” is the first in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan, called “Tangling Eyebrows with Zen Masters.”
From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 - 22:27If you haven’t seen it yet you can now get hold of a definitive collection of seven papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita, outlining and reaffirming the approach to the Dharma that underpins the Triratna Buddhist Community. It’s a rather magisterial undertaking, even by Subhuti’s standards, and worth celebrating as both an important source text for Triratna and as a spur to conversation and debate within the community at large.
To round off our ‘Triratna anniversaries’ week, here is the appropriately definitive complete set of seven papers by Subhuti and Sangharakshita, documenting their conversations over the past few years about the whole basis of our approach to the Dharma within the Triratna Buddhist Community.
In Subhuti’s words, each attempts to follow through the implications of Sangharakshita’s statement, in the first paper, What is the Western Buddhist Order?, that the Triratna Buddhist...
This summary of the 2nd International Council meeting outlines the highlights of the 5-day programme, including participants and information on the major themes discussed plus a list of the actions identified over the course of the meeting together with the Priority Action Plans that were developed by each Strand.
This is a comprehensive day-by-day account of the 2nd International Council meeting, including links to supporting talks, summaries of discussions, documentation and resources.
A list of the 38 actions, grouped by theme and by Strand, that were identified during the meeting, together with the Priority Action Plans developed by each Strand.
From Community Highlights on Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 - 21:04And while we’re at it, here is the Threefold Puja!
This is a shorter compilation of verses composed by Urgyen Sangharakshita for general use in the Triratna Buddhist Community. The Threefold Puja is often performed at Buddhist Centres and on retreat, and it’s a beautifully weighted little text that brings our emotions into play alongside rational understandings of the Buddhist path.
