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Re-opening Nominations for International Order Convenor

From Order Connection on Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 - 17:29

Re-opening Nominations for International Order Convenor

From Order Connection on Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 - 17:29

Dear Order member,

You are probably aware that Aryajaya formally put down her responsibility as International Order Convenor (IOC) at the end of January 2025, during the International Convention in Bodhgaya.

Back in April 2024, we launched a process to find and appoint her successor, and one year later Satyalila was appointed.

She had to delay her start due to the sudden illness of her partner, Prajnamati. Since then,...

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Centre Team

Relaxing Into What Is (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 - 11:13

Bhadra takes us through the myth of Persephone and an experiential exploration of awareness to celebrate the vital contribution the bardo; the in-between state, makes towards the spiritual life. Excerpted from the talk Celebrating the In-Between given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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In the Light of Awareness (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 - 10:50

Vidyamala offers ways to approach higher states of concentration in meditation and how they bloom out of paying attention to pleasant vedana that has a felt quality of openness within it. Dhyana is not random but a result of where we place our attention in each moment. Excerpted from the talk Introduction to Citta and Dhyana with Guided Meditation given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2019.

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Vajrashura

Practising and Teaching Tonglen OM

From The Sikkha Project on Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 - 12:03

Practising and Teaching Tonglen OM

From The Sikkha Project on Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 - 12:03

Practising and Teaching Tonglen
An Online Event for Order Members run by the Sikkha Project

Led by Vessantara
Saturday 25th October 2025
UK Timings: 10.30am - 12.30pm and 2.30pm - 4.30pm

In this online event we shall explore tonglen – ‘sending and receiving’. Coming from the Mahayana tradition, ...

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Centre Team

What Is It We Are Doing with Our One Wild and Precious Life? (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 11:00

In this talk Vajradevi reflects on our good conditions, and our own conditioning in the light of Pratitya Samutpada and relates this reflection to the Women in Early Buddhism.

This talk was given on the Women’s UK and Ireland Area Order Weekend at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2018.

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Paramachitta

Ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 08:43

Ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 08:43

Dear Order members,

We are delighted to announce the public ordinations of the following people at Akashavana in Spain on 12th September 2025:

Public Preceptor: Paramachitta

Niki Moores becomes Dharmasingha (long last ‘a’)
Registered name: Dharmasingha
Meaning: She who is a lion of the Dharma
Private Preceptor: Kalyacitta

Karen Jones becomes Liladharani (each ‘i’ is long and first ‘a’ is long)
Registered name: Liladharani
Meaning:...

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Candradasa

Entering the Sangha

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:38

Entering the Sangha

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:38

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. This month join Sangharakshita in a Buddhafield Festival tent for his talk ‘Entering The Sangha’.

In the summer of 2007, Sangharakshita visited the Triratna project known as ‘Buddhafield’, during which he offered this talk.

He considers the Buddha’s explanation of his Dharma-Vinaya with particular reference to his teaching on freedom. Looking both to his experiences in the West and India, he describes...

Candradasa

New Podcast: The Intimacy of Art and the Dharma

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:05

Today we meet three Buddhists with a full time professional painting practice, exhibiting at The Art Pavilion in Mile End Eco Park. And we’re treated to a generous and intimate conversation about the tensions and creative dynamics between an explicitly artistic life and an implicitly spiritual, even religious one. All in context of shared joy at exhibiting openly as Buddhists in a beautiful space surrounded by and inflected with nature.

We explore the relationship between the values of Buddhism and...

Sam Vega

Space in London Men's Community (N16)

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 - 15:26

Space in London Men's Community (N16)

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 - 15:26

1 room is available in the Aryakaruna community in Stoke Newington, London from October 2025.

The house is lovely and sits in good location next to Clissold Park. Close to both the London and North London Buddhist Centres. The rent is very reasonable.

The general spirit of our community is that we support each other in life, health and
dharmic practice. The medium for that is...