The Paris Centre has published these books itself as it has not yet been possible to find a mainstream publisher for Sangharakshita’s works in France. Contrary to the situation in Anglophone countries, Sangharakshita is little known in France and the Triratna Buddhist...
From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 7 Dec, 2012 - 01:00This was filmed a few years ago but we forgot to post it here in thebuddhistcenter.com’s online community! Our bad… Thanks Dhammarati for your ongoing support and insight into the potentiality of communities in genergal, and specifically in relation to our online communities created here and on Free Buddhist Audio.
From New Ventures on Thu, 6 Dec, 2012 - 10:44Bodhiyoga (www.bodhiyoga.es) is a new Triratna venture based in Spain. It offers yoga teacher training based upon Buddhist mindfulness principles, and has been created by Sudaka and Sadhita, two Order Members who’ve been living there for some years now. They’ve just completed their first year and have ambitious plans to branch out to the UK, even to develop a Triratna-wide Yoga Training initiative.
For a full report on Bodhiyoga’s first year and their plans, click ...
A report by the Bodhiyoga team on their first year’s activities. Bodhiyoga are a new Triratna venture offering yoga teacher training based upon Buddhist mindfulness principles. Find them at www.bodhiyoga.es
From Triratna News on Thu, 6 Dec, 2012 - 09:40A major new book by Sangharakshita has just been published, bringing together many of his most significant teachings on meditation. The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation is a substantial compilation of teachings on meditation and suggestions for its successful practice – some drawn from previously published works, and many extracted from previously unpublished seminar transcripts. They reveal how Sangharakshita learned the practices on which his system of meditation – ‘an organic, living system’ – is based, and...
From Triratna Ghent on Wed, 5 Dec, 2012 - 19:49On Sunday several people gathered to make 50 new meditation mats for our centre. It was a day of working together, laughing together, eating together, talking, building sangha! Meet the Ghent Sewing Team!
From Karuna Fundraisers on Wed, 5 Dec, 2012 - 12:47Only 55-65% of children in the villages of Sangamner, Maharashtra, India are attending school. The root of the problem is poverty, where in Maharashtra, 27 million people live on less than 80p a day. Poor and uneducated parents do not always recognise the value in children, especially girls, attending school. Instead children are often kept away from school to bring extra income into the household through scavenging, or following their parents into work.
Welcome to the Thai Translation space on thebuddhistcentre.com. Click here for our first three translations in Thai: Triratna’s Dedication Ceremony, Threefold Puja, and Refuges and Precepts. Many thanks to Subhamati and Pin Virasilp for providing them.
Here’s the next of a series of Welsh translations of key ceremonies used in the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community - the Sevenfold Puja in all its glory!. It’s part of a wider Triratna Translation project which aims to translate a few of our core texts into as many of the world’s languages as possible. You’ll find it at thebuddhistcentre.com/translations. If you’d like to contribute in any way please contact us on translations [at] ...
