The Buddhist Center: building community online

Tag: Triratna

Buddhist Action Month is coming!
Earthkind poster
July sees the UK’s second annual Buddhist Action Month, with the environmental theme Earthkind.

Earthkind is a great opportunity for Buddhists of all traditions to get together and volunteer for the good of their local communities.
Retreat med Maitreyabandhu
Under en fyradagars retreat i maj 2013 Dharmagiri, gav Maitreyabandhu fyra seminarier om ”De fem stadierna i det andliga livet” så som dom förstås och utövas inom Triratna. Han hämtar inspiration till stor del från den undervisning som Sangharakshita och Subhuti givit under senare år. Maitreyabandhu bidrar själv med en otroligt levande framställning och konkretiserar temana på ett sätt som blev mycket uppskattat på retreaten, och säkert kommer att uppskattas av många fler. Här är länkar till seminerierna i den ordning de gavs.

1. Introduction and integration
Public ordination in the Netherlands
Announcing a new Dharmacharini in mainland Europe:

Ioana Ciontea of Gent, Belgium had her public ordination on the afternoon of 4th May at Metta Vihara retreat centre in the Netherlands. She becomes Dharmamani (long last “i”), “Jewel of the Dharma”.

Her public preceptor was Vajragita and her private preceptor was Sobhanandi.

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!
Child protection guidance for Triratna UK
All UK Triratna Centres and other charities have an ethical and legal obligation to ensure the well-being and safety of young and vulnerable people with whom they have dealings. Recent developments in UK case law have prompted me to write this short document for you. Checked by a specialist lawyer, it provides all the help you need to meet your ethical and legal obligations.
Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita - Direct Download
It’s come to our attention that the documents service we use - Issuu - is making people go to their site and log in before allowing downloads… So while we try and sort that out with them, please find here a direct link to the eBook in PDF format. We’ll amend the original post to include this link there too. With apologies for any inconvenience!
The Making of Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita
If you haven’t seen it yet you can now get hold of a definitive collection of seven papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita, outlining and reaffirming the approach to the Dharma that underpins the Triratna Buddhist Community. It’s a rather magisterial undertaking, even by Subhuti’s standards, and worth celebrating as both an important source text for Triratna and as a spur to conversation and debate within the community at large.
Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita
To round off our ‘Triratna anniversaries’ week, here is the appropriately definitive complete set of seven papers by Subhuti and Sangharakshita, documenting their conversations over the past few years about the whole basis of our approach to the Dharma within the Triratna Buddhist Community.
How Triratna Works
Here’s a new paper by Lokabandhu, attempting to summarise in a few pages how Triratna worldwide works. It’s an overview of its mission, size, activities, structure, roles, responsibilities, and funding…! Comments welcome - and will be incorporated into a revised version in due course…
The 'Hanging Garden' Shrine Room
Some shots of the utterly lovely ‘Hanging Garden’ shrine room (the smaller of two in this style). Or to give it its proper name - Sambodhi Parayana Shala
The Triratna Timeline Video
Here’s an experimental timeline we made in 2011 to mark the launch of our new Buddhist Centre Online. It’s presented here as a multi-media slideshow (with integrated movies and audio) and you can also view the interactive web version.

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