Guhyaloka For the Ages
Guhyaloka For the Ages

Guhyaloka For The Ages: Prakasha

By Candradasa on Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 - 16:06

The second episode in our brand new occasional series of Buddhist Voices featuring the men who made Guhyaloka - ‘The Secret Valley’!

During this in-depth interview with Jyotika, Prakasha recounts his experience of living at Guhyaloka. For approximately five years he lived in the Vihara there with several other men. This was a time of deep spiritual practice, which gave rise to many fruits. Since then he has spent months on solitary retreat in the Valley and at Uttaraloka. 

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Final Journey to Ordination (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Fri, 8 Aug, 2025 - 13:15

Saddhaloka explores the key aspects of any practitioner’s commitment, Going Forth and Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels, evoking how Sangharakshita engaged with these formative acts as foundations of his own practice in India at the end of the Second World War. With an introduction by Dhammarati.Excerpted from the talk Going Forth And Going For Refuge as part of the series Themes from the Dharma Life of Urgyen Sangharakshita (Triratna International Council 2019).
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Guhyaloka For The Ages: Episode One

By Candradasa on Wed, 14 May, 2025 - 15:28

We’re back after a long hiatus with a brand new occasional series of Buddhist Voices featuring the men who made Guhyaloka!

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Guhyaloka—the ‘Secret Valley’—has been the Triratna Buddhist Community’s primary place for men’s ordination since 1987. Over 600 men have become Order members there. It has therefore been vitally important in helping to shape what the Triratna community offers the world today. 

For it to thrive into the future, Guhyaloka needs to undergo major...

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With Loyalty to My Teachers (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 19 Apr, 2025 - 11:00

Satyaraja begins the series of talks on the four acceptance verses with an inspiring, careful, and systematic exploration of the verse ‘With Loyalty to my Teachers, I Accept this Ordination’. He investigates the centrality of the relationship with Bhante Sangharakshita, our own preceptors and the world and culture which we join at the sacred moment of ordination. This talk was given as part of the series What is the Order? Given at ...

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Ordination and the Unity of the Sangha (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 12 Apr, 2025 - 11:00

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.

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Getting Lost (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 29 Apr, 2024 - 11:00

Paraga offers some reflections on his personal experience of being in the Order. Excerpted from the talk Reflections On the Benefits of Being In the Order given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2016.

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Dharmabytes: The Juxtaposition of Disharmony and Harmony

By Centre Team on Thu, 8 Feb, 2024 - 11:00

Saddhaloka shares two early stories from the Buddhist tradition to illustrate disharmony and harmony in the sangha. From the talk entitled The Four Ordination Vows - In Harmony with Friends and Bretheren given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2009.

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Following the Stream of Dharma

By Centre Team on Tue, 8 Aug, 2023 - 12:19

Join Satyalila for another episode of the Buddhist Voices podcast as she engages in a heartfelt conversation with Suryaka about their journey of discovering and embracing Buddhism. This interview was originally conducted for the Fifty Years, Fifty Voices project. Suryaka’s name is pronounced as “Su-ree-a-ka,” meaning “Like the Sun.”

Suryaka’s initial attraction to yoga and meditation retreats was that they seemed cheap and like a nice holiday! Having avoided any kind of religious practice throughout their life due...

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Dharmabytes: Convention in India

By Zac on Mon, 24 Apr, 2023 - 06:00

Subhadramati shares her experience traveling to India for the International Order Convention. Excerpted from the talk Ordination and the Unity of the Sangha giving at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre 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 in 2016.

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Fifty Years, Fifty Voices: Suryaka (Highlights)

By Zac on Wed, 27 Jul, 2022 - 12:26

I need some sort of channel in my life, so that my energy can flow into it, really strongly.

Suryaka Annals
 
In 1968 I was 4 years old and lived in a small farming village in South Yorkshire in the UK. I lived with my parents and older sister. My grandma lived across the road and aunty, uncle and cousins also lived in the village. It was a safe place to grow up, everyone knew everyone else.
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