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Ordinations at Vijayaloka in Australia

By Sudrishti on Tue, 30 Apr, 2024 - 12:30

Ordinations at Vijayaloka in Australia

By Sudrishti on Tue, 30 Apr, 2024 - 12:30

Dear Friends, 

We are delighted to announce that on 30 April 2024 the ordinations of the following eight women from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand took place at Vijayaloka Retreat Centre near Sydney, Australia: 

Public Preceptor Sudrishti: 

Cheryl Richardson from Kempsey becomes Dayadhi, a Sanskrit name meaning she who has the qualities of kindness and wisdom
Registered spelling: Dayadhi
Private preceptor: Prakashika 

Pam Verrall from Sydney becomes Kusalavaca, a Pali name meaning she who is skilled or wholesome in speech
Registered spelling:...

Buddhist Voices
Buddhist Voices

Guardian of Loving-kindness

By Centre Team on Fri, 15 Sep, 2023 - 14:55

In this episode of the Buddhist Voices podcast, we explore the personal journey and reflections of Dharmacharini Maitripala, a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order as well as a private and public preceptor, based in Brunswick, Australia. 

Initially leading a seemingly idyllic life, Maitripala’s quest for ‘more’ was sparked by a serene moment of beauty as she noticed the glistening morning dew delicately resting on the cobwebs on her laundry line. Such a potent image seems to have...

Buddhist Voices
Buddhist Voices

Fifty Years, Fifty Voices: Maitripala (highlights)

By Zac on Thu, 4 Aug, 2022 - 12:45

I don’t need to go away from samsara to be really going for refuge. I can be right in the middle of it.

Maitripala Annals:
 
In 1968, I was 12 years old. I was living with my parents and siblings in suburban Reservoir, Melbourne Australia.
I was second eldest (first daughter) of five children. We had moved up to the city from an idyllic country life in Gippsland to have closer access to secondary schools. My early life...

Buddhist Voices
Triratna@50

50 Years, 50 Voices: Buddhadasa (Highlights)

By Zac on Thu, 12 May, 2022 - 17:08

I think it began for me when I was 8 years old…


 

Buddhadasa’s Annals
In 1968 - I was 25 and working as an interior designer with a firm of architects in Bloomsbury Square, London. It was the era of drawing boards and T squares and the time of transition from Imperial to Metric. It was also the year when decimalisation began to be introduced. This was my second and half-hearted attempt to establish a career having previously discharged...

Buddhist Voices
Buddhist Voices

50 Years, 50 Voices: Malini (Highlights)

By Zac on Wed, 4 May, 2022 - 12:38

I have a very definite sense of something which is above and beyond mundane living, and that’s what draws me. That’s what Going for Refuge is for me.


 

Malini’s Annals
1967 - I was 17 and working as a junior secretary in the BBC Arabic service in Bush House. Here I met Ananda to be, who told me about Sakura as somewhere I could get incense however I not only got the exotic fragrance of incense but the...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Public Ordination Announcement 

By maitripala on Sun, 3 Apr, 2022 - 13:26

Public Ordination Announcement 

By maitripala on Sun, 3 Apr, 2022 - 13:26

We are delighted to announce that the following four people had their public ordinations on Sunday April 3rd 2022 at the Vijayaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre outside Sydney, Australia.

Veronica Toescu  becomes Satyabodhinī     
Name meaning ‘She who awakens through the truth’
Registered spelling Satyabodhini
Private Preceptor Vidyatara 

The a has the short vowel sound as in ‘cut’
The dh has a noticeably pronounced h as in ‘roadhouse’
The i is short as in ‘hit’
The ī is long as in ‘police’

Cynthia Troup becomes Karunāṇītā
(there is also a dot under the first n)                   ...

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