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Forthcoming Ordinations in Holland and Germany

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 17:36

Forthcoming Ordinations in Holland and Germany

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 17:36

Dear Order members,

On an online Ordination Retreat with both Holland and Germany, Karin van Kesteren, Anna Van Den Heuval and Riet Dhuyvetters will have their Private Ordinations on Thursday, 22nd April at Metta Vihara. Their Public Ordinations will be on Saturday, 24th April at 14.30 (CET) also at Metta Vihara.

Sabine Schwarz, Inge Nilson and Beate Wilbrand, who are in the Berlin Women’s Community, will also have their Private Ordinations on Thursday, 22nd April. Their...

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Subhadramati

Upcoming Ordinations led from Taraloka

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 13:00

Upcoming Ordinations led from Taraloka

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 13:00

Dear Order members,

I’m delighted to let you know that ten women have been invited to an ordination retreat led from Taraloka, 22nd April to 3rd May. The retreat will be online but the private and public ordinations will be in-person from various locations to comply with covid guidelines.

All going well, the public ordinations will be:

Adhisthana, 4th May, 2pm, conducted by Santavajri and Padmasuri
LBC, 6th May, 10am conducted by...

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Parami

Resignation of Taramati

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 07:03

Resignation of Taramati

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 07:03

Dear Order members,

When I was preparing a talk about Adhisthana and Internationality for the Triratna Day celebrations it brought to mind that I had failed to inform the Order of the resignation of Dharmacharini Taramati from Valencia, Spain.

Ex-Taramati resigned in Spring 2019 after conversations and communication with her private preceptor Paramachitta and myself. Although we verbally accepted the resignation, I had wanted to meet with her face to face for a conversation...

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Diving to the Depths

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 06:00

Satyalila gives us a clear and practical guide to how our spiritual journey can consist in transforming the ‘poisons’ (greed, hatred, delusion, pride and envy) with (and ultimately into) the five spiritual faculties (faith, wisdom, mindfulness, samadhi and energy-in-pursuit-of-the-good). It concludes with a look at how the five Buddha mandala offers an imaginative representation of the faculties as qualities of the Buddha’s Enlightened mind.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Let Your Poison Be Your Cure given at the ...

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Covid Emergency in India: An Evening with Padmavajra and Friends

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 03:55

Covid Emergency in India: An Evening with Padmavajra and Friends

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 - 03:55

Join Padmavajra and friends live on Tuesday 20th April for a special event to raise funds for urgent Covid-19 care in India:

US PST 11:00 | US EST 14:00 | IE & UK 19:00 | Europe CET 20:00 | India 23:30 | Australia AEDT 04:00 (next day) | New Zealand 06:00 (next day)

Five members of our Order have died of #COVIDー19 in the past few days in India. There is so...

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Urgent Appeal for 66 Order members in India

From Triratna India on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 22:19

Urgent Appeal for 66 Order members in India

From Triratna India on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 22:19

Dear Friends,

The second wave of covid is causing poverty, distress and death in India. Very sadly we have lost several members of the Order to covid in recent days. Currently 15 Order members are unwell with covid to the point of needing medicines and / or oxygen. With public health supplies running low, these things need to be paid for privately. We want to send £150 to each of these Order members to give them this ability.

Donate to the emergency appeal

Our...

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Urgent Appeal for 66 Order members in India

From Triratna India on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 22:19

Urgent Appeal for 66 Order members in India

From Triratna India on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 22:19

Dear Friends,

The second wave of covid is causing poverty, distress and death in India. Very sadly we have lost several members of the Order to covid in recent days. Currently 15 Order members are unwell with covid to the point of needing medicines and / or oxygen. With public health supplies running low, these things need to be paid for privately. We want to send £150 to each of these Order members to give them this ability.

Donate to the emergency appeal

Our...

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Death of Shakyaditya

From Order Connection on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 21:16

Death of Shakyaditya

From Order Connection on Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 21:16

Dear brothers and sisters

I am very sad to inform you that Dhammachari Shakyaditya from Mumbai passed away this morning around 9.30 am. He was 76 years old and was hospitalised for coronavirus treatment. 

Dhammachari Shakyaditya was ordained on 19th June 2011.  Dhammachari Adityabodhi was his private preceptor and Amoghasiddhi was his public preceptor.

He was living in Mulund in Mumbai and due to his old age it was difficult for him to keep regular contact with the Sangha. Dhammachari...

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