Adhisthana’s Dedication Ceremony - Lokabandhu interviews with Vimalasara, from Canada, seeing it for the first time, and Ajjavin the mastermind behind the building project - two very different perspectives
From Community Highlights on Sat, 3 Aug, 2013 - 18:59Order members worldwide were invited to send very small Buddha rupas to be offered in today’s dedication ceremony. You can see them all here on the shrine designed by Vidyatara using very authentic local building materials! Bhante’s rupa is the tiny one in the large Buddha’s lap.
From Community Highlights on Sat, 3 Aug, 2013 - 18:43Here’s Saturday’s lunch queue - and there are some other things that take a long time here in beautiful rural Herefordshire, where the internet access is some of the slowest in the country…
The challenge facing your faithful reporting team - Lokabandhu, Ivan Trujillo and me - is best summed up in a message that appeared on my computer screen this morning: “Downloading 6 files. 14 hours remaining.”
The Order’s Dedication Ceremony of Adhisthana, led by Parami, with chanting of the Refuges and Ten Precepts, plus the Avalokitesvara and Bodhicitta Mantras. The ceremony was preceded by a talk from Dhammarati in which he rejoiced and thanked the many people involved in the project - this will be posted separately…
From Community Highlights on Sat, 3 Aug, 2013 - 10:18Friday: Andrew Poor tells Dhammarati about his childhood at Coddington Court before his family sold it to Clyde Petroleum in the 1980s. Clear Vision’s Upekshapriya videoed their tour of the house for posterity.
From Community Highlights on Fri, 2 Aug, 2013 - 18:37The Adhisthana dedication weekend began today with an afternoon tea for invited local people. Over 80 people came to look around, listen to a talk by Sanghadeva and eat scones and cream.
They included former staff at the school for autistic children which occupied the house before us, local residents, and the last person to be born in the house before it was sold to an oil company.
