Vishvapani’s usual good-natured and reflective approach is just the thing to start us off as he looks at how Sangharakshita’s initiative in founding the FWBO might be viewed in terms of the unity of Buddhism.
I am sorry to announce the resignation from the Order of Dhammachari Padmabodhi from Nagpur. He has been suspended from the Order for the last two years for a serious breach of the precepts and, in consultation with his Private Preceptor and friends, has now decided to leave the Order.
Padmabodhi was ordained at Hsuan Tsang Retreat Centre, Bordharan, on 22nd January 2000 by Dhammachari Lokamitra, as his Private...
Subhadramati gives a talk for Cambridge Sangha night as part of a series on the Six Distinctive Emphasis of the Triratna Buddhist Community. A talk full of energy, insight and inspiration on Ordination within Triratna. Given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2016.
We’re glad to be sharing with you our plans to create a memorial space at Dhanakosa in 2025, a place to remember and contemplate. And we’re asking for your help to bring this project into being.
Dhanakosa is a significant place for many people, a spiritual home. We’re making a space on the Dhanakosa land where you can come and remember people close to you, or as a place to request for your ashes to be scattered, somewhere your friends...
Dhammachari Tejadhamma from Nagpur, India, was suspended from the Order in September 2022 for a serious ethical issue. Today I am pleased to inform you, as Chair of the Preceptors’ College, and in consultation with Tejadhamma’s preceptors, that his suspension has been lifted. Tejadhamma’s suspension Kula, and College members in India who know him well, are fully satisfied that he has done what was needed to address the ethical issues raised, and we are...
All over the Buddhist world, there are Maitreya devotees. Maitreya is the sole bodhisattva recognised and revered by the Theravadins since he’s mentioned in the Pali Canon as well as later scriptures. Metteyya (Maitreya’s Pali name) is the Buddha who will arise in the next world age after the Sangha established by Shakyamuni, ‘our’ Buddha has died out and his teachings have been lost. So Maitreya is known as the Buddha of the Future. ‘Maitreya’ means ‘the Friendly One’ or...
Padmasagara explores the awe-inspiring vision behind the image of the Refuge Tree, connecting it to Sangharakshita’s great insight into the centrality of Going for Refuge. Excerpted from the talk The Refuge Tree As a Vision of Existence given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre as part of the series The Cosmic Refuge Tree, 2019.
