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An Ethical Approach to Climate Science (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 12 Jun, 2025 - 16:03

How can Buddhists respond to the climate emergency? Vishvapani uses the Parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra to suggest our responsibilities’ and finds the values we need to guide us in the Five Precepts. Excerpted from the talk Climate Precepts In The Burning House given in Cardiff, 2019.

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Post Ordination Retreat - Jun 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 12 Jun, 2025 - 11:43

Post Ordination Retreat - Jun 25

From Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center on Thu, 12 Jun, 2025 - 11:43

Post Ordination retreat led by Dh Yashosagar and Dh Ratnashil.

For some Order Members it was exactly one year has passed for Ordination. It was good to see their first Dhammic Birthday.

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The Present Buddha

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 - 00:00

“I exist forever in the world I behold all living creatures and set them all inspiring Until when their hearts are full of longing I appear, to preach the dharma. I am always on the divine Vulture’s Peak And in every other place’’ So says the Buddha in this week’s section of the White Lotus Sutra. How are we to make sense of this? Does it sound a bit like God “out there“ watching over us? Come and find out what Sanghagita makes of this mind wrangling statement! In this series we are exploring the profound teachings of the White Lotus Sutra, presented through a combination of poetry, drama, parables and what can seem like cosmic science fiction, and the way these have the potential to free us to take our practice of the Dharma to a new level.

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Revisioning Our Relation to the World (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 9 Jun, 2025 - 11:56

Bhadra gave this talk as part of BAM 2018. He references David Loy’s two icebergs and explores how we might revise the Triratana mandala of practice to strengthen our sense of interconnectedness with the world. Given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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The Vision of Community Living

From London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 9 Jun, 2025 - 00:00

Sthiramanas giving a talk at the LBC's Community Living Day about the vision and principles of living in a residential Buddhist community.

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Revisioning Our Relation to the World (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 7 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

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Great Ocean (Part 1): Memories of the Road

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 21:36

Great Ocean (Part 1): Memories of the Road

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 21:36

I started Great Ocean by writing to and later meeting Sangharakshita in June 2018. My idea was a film to explore a range of friendships in his life and he was quick to name two very important ones: Buddharakshita and Terry Delamare.

In this first part, we meet Buddharakshita, Sangharakshita’s companion in the holy life who facilitated the transition to living in India. A first person account taken from several memoirs vividly brought to life with found footage.

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Unseen Sangharakshita: My Trip to the USA

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 11:24

Unseen Sangharakshita: My Trip to the USA

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 11:24

New video release now live on the Triratna Video Library

The Triratna Video Library is back celebrating Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with another freshly edited never-before-seen talk by Bhante from the archive. The release for June is a talk entitled ‘My Trip to the USA’.

This month the talk on offer is not a Dharma talk but an opportunity to see Bhante in a different mode.

‘My Trip to the USA’ is an informal talk at an Order gathering, that Sangharakshita describes as ‘a fairly...

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June...

From Akashavana on Thu, 5 Jun, 2025 - 17:32

June...

From Akashavana on Thu, 5 Jun, 2025 - 17:32

Summer has definitely arrived on the mountain. And not only the warmer weather - but preceptors also arrived and departed, leaving behind 19 beautiful new dharmacharinis to settle their feathers back into their remaining time here in the context of an Order retreat…

Such a precious and intense time - for everyone! We welcomed Mokshagandhi into the community (currently Padmasakhi, Vidyachandra, Viryamani and Bodhipaksini) for the ordination period. She arrived with her customary grace and warm friendliness into the retreat and also...