Hi everyone.. Did you know our community at Akashavana had a blog? It was called ‘the great to do list’.. We recently decided to move the blog to the ‘thebuddhistcentre.com’ site. This makes sense because it’s perfectly possible to do exactly the same as what we have been doing on our wordpress blog, which is to inform you about what’s happening out here in the land of luminous space. If you click ‘subscribe’ at the Akashavana space at ‘thebuddhistcentre.com, you’ll...
This is to tell you that Dhivati died peacefully on the morning of 19th April 2015. Her daughters Liz and Julia were with her. Her son Bill was away, unfortunately. She’d been in a care home for just a short while and had said to friends that she was ready to go. She was 90.
With metta, Dayapakshini
Dhivati was ordained in June 1995 and given the Green Tara sadhana. Her private preceptor was Ratnasuri...
I am pleased to tell you that all twelve of the men attending the 2015 Spring Ordination course will soon be privately and publicly ordained.
The men to be ordained are:
Eoin Dowling Pedro Raul Vidal Anaya Damian Gill John Gridley Chris Effendowicz Tim Crosskey Ian Ward David Welsh Peter Cox Ben Niblock Ian Barker Klaus Stock
The Private Ordinations will take place over three evenings starting...
Saddhaloka, new Chair of the College of Public Preceptors arrived to live at Adhisthana last Thursday evening.
he writes: After twenty years I packed my possessions and life at Padmaloka into a van and drove right across England to Adhisthana, and a warm welcome from the community and the balmy Spring weather. I have just about settled in to my new room, but no time yet to really settle into my new life here. Now I am off to...
A personal talk by Guhyavajra reminiscing about Sangharakshita as friend and teacher. Talk given the 17th of april 2015 at the Stockholm Buddhist center
A personal talk by Guhyavajra reminiscing about Sangharakshita as friend and teacher. Talk given the 17th of april 2015 at the Stockholm Buddhist center
An imaginative perspective on Bhante as Alchemist-Translator and his ‘opus’.
Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble.
If I stay it will be double.
(The Clash)
It is difficult to go forth (from home to the homeless life); and difficult to delight therein once one has gone forth. (At the same time) household life is painful…
(Dhammapada v 302)
This paper is intended for members of the Triratna Buddhist Order and also those in training to enter the Order.
It has come out of a desire to honour the way the Order has been set up by Sangharakshita and a heartfelt aspiration for the Order to both survive and, more than that, to thrive after his death…
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Suryamati explores the teaching on the Samgrahavastus, the four means of unification. A talk given at Sangha Night, Sheffield Buddhist Centre, as part of a series of talks on Buddhism Through Time and Space.
