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Health of Danakamala

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:30

Health of Danakamala

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:30

Dear Order Members,

As you may already know, Danakamala, based in Portsmouth, NH USA, has been living with multiple medical challenges for some time now. He started dialysis early this spring and is currently experiencing a complication from one of the devices they inserted in his arm a few weeks ago. This resulted in a serious blood infection that we are now learning has most likely led to osteomyelitis (infection of bone) in his mid back. Further...
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Smritiratna

Death of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:03

Death of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 10:03

Dear Order Members,

Dharmachari Rijudaya from Falkirk, Scotland, died peacefully in hospital on Sunday 22nd June 2025 at 11.15am UK time. His sister Shirley-Ann and his personal nurse were with him when he took his last breath. I arrived 80 minutes later, having driven in from Dhanakosa. Kamala and his preceptor Dharmapala arrived soon after and we chanted verses of blessing. He had been talking with them both the previous day and was at peace, letting...
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Sudaka

Our New Shrine room

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 08:37

Our New Shrine room

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 08:37

Hi all. 
 

to liberate our living quarters and create a dedicated Shrineroom which will serve us well whilst we continue to fundraise for the larger project of the conversion of the back patio into a Sacred Space we have renovated the downstairs garage into a wonderful luminous meditation space. 
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Saddhahadaya

Health of Moksacara

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 11:07

Health of Moksacara

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 11:07

Dear Order members

I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend Moksacara, (Registered spelling Mokshachara) who is part of the Cambridge UK Sangha, has been suffering for months with pancreatic cancer, and it now appears to have spread further. She has just recently had a prognosis – it could be 8 to 12 weeks, but that is the best case scenario and it is likely to be sooner, maybe much sooner as she is now extremely thin. She has been...
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Abhayaka

Health of Gunapala

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 10:52

Health of Gunapala

From Order Connection on Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 - 10:52

Dear Order Members,

As you may already know Gunapala has been living with Pulmonary Fibrosis for the past couple of years.

We want to let you know that there has been a marked decline in Gunapala’s health over the past few days. He remains at home in Elgin in Scotland, lovingly surrounded by his wife Maitrihridaya, his daughters Eva, Alice, and Stella, and many close family friends.

We are all sending our love and holding him in our hearts. Please keep Gunapala and his family in...
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Centre Team

Dhamma In a Time of Climate Crisis (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

Tejopala likens the current global climate crisis to a village with a fire that threatens everyone in it and asks what a community of monks living in such a village might do in such circumstances. He also draws on the advice given by Urgyen Sangharakshita in his talk given in 1984 called ‘Buddhism, World Peace and Nuclear War’ as to how Buddhists should act to address an overwhelming existential threat, in which Bhante urges civil resistance. This...
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Smritiratna

Health of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 09:38

Health of Rijudaya

From Order Connection on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 09:38

Dear Order Members,

Rijudaya from Falkirk in Scotland, UK, was admitted to hospital yesterday and diagnosed with sepsis. He had recently learned that secondary cancers had broken out and he may only have months to live. Now the doctors are saying he may only have hours or days —possibly even weeks; they cannot tell for sure. But he doesn’t have long to live.

Maitrisattva visited this afternoon and chanted the Heart Sūtra and...
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Vajrapriya

UK & Ireland Combined Order Weekend

From Order Connection on Fri, 20 Jun, 2025 - 12:15

UK & Ireland Combined Order Weekend

From Order Connection on Fri, 20 Jun, 2025 - 12:15

21-24 August 2025, Adhisthana

The Monk & The Muse

Sangharakshita II wanted to meditate and realise the truth.
Sangharakshita I wanted to experience the richness of life.

This once-in-a-lifetime Combined Area Order Weekend for UK & Ireland marks the centenary of Sangharakshita’s birth anniversary — an opportunity to come together as the Order in gratitude, reflection, and celebration.

We will explore two distinct yet ultimately unified aspects of Bhante’s personality and spiritual vision — his disciplined, ascetic side and his imaginative, poetic side...
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Amarapuspa

An Update on Ratnachuda's Health

From Order Connection on Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 - 21:46

An Update on Ratnachuda's Health

From Order Connection on Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 - 21:46

Dear Order Friends,

The home palliative care team came today. The consultant was struck by how at peace with the prospect of dying Ratnachuda seemed. He  told her that he had been a Buddhist for over 30 years. (He celebrated his 30th Order birthday last month but was too unwell to  attend the zoom reunion). He told her how his Buddhist practice helped him to prepare for death.

The consultant said that death through...
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What Do We Hear If We Begin to Listen? (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

One of the contradictions of modern environmentalism is that a concern for ‘nature’ embodies a separation between humans and the living world. Ketumati develops a profound critique of our usual assumptions and a revised version of holistic thinking. Excerpted from the talk From the ‘Nature’ Delusion to the Wisdom of the Earth given at Adhisthana as part of the series Wisdom of the Earth: Philosophy and the Climate...

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