Community Highlights
Community Highlights

A Gift to Honour Bhante Sangharakshita

By Maitripa on Fri, 19 May, 2023 - 18:35

A Gift to Honour Bhante Sangharakshita

By Maitripa on Fri, 19 May, 2023 - 18:35

Last year at the Order Convention, I was so struck by the amazing Amitabha thangka in the shrineroom in Wymondham. Having just come back from my ordination retreat in Guhyaloka, I was overjoyed to see such a beautiful image of Amitabha in exactly the form that I visualise in sadhana. 

In the thangka, Amitabha is holding up the lotus. The origins of that image are fascinating and mysterious: the image...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Public Ordinations Live from Chintamani, México | Ordenaciones públicas en vivo desde Chintámani, México

By Centre Team on Fri, 30 Dec, 2022 - 20:18

Public Ordinations Live from Chintamani, México | Ordenaciones públicas en vivo desde Chintámani, México

By Centre Team on Fri, 30 Dec, 2022 - 20:18

You’re invited to connect online with us live from the lovely retreat centre of Chintamani in Morelos, Mexico, to witness three men being ordained (names below), accompanied by their preceptors.

The public ceremony is at 12pm (local time) on Saturday 14th January 2023.

USA PST 10:00 | Mexico 12:00 | USA EST 13:00 | IE & UK 18.00 | Europe 19:00 CET | India 23:30 | Australia AEDT 05:00 (next day) | New Zealand NZDT...

Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Public Ordinations Live from México! | Ordenaciones públicas en vivo desde México

By Centre Team on Wed, 19 Oct, 2022 - 01:35

Public Ordinations Live from México! | Ordenaciones públicas en vivo desde México

By Centre Team on Wed, 19 Oct, 2022 - 01:35

You’re invited to connect online with us live from the lovely retreat centre of Chintamani in Morelos, Mexico, to witness eight women being ordained (names below), accompanied by their preceptors and other dharmacharinis.

Watch live on YouTube

The public ceremony is at 12pm (local time) on Friday 21st October.

USA PST 10:00 | Mexico 12:00 | USA EST 13:00 | IE & UK 18.00 | Europe 19:00 CET | India 22:30 | Australia AEDT 04:00 (next day) | New Zealand NZDT 06:00 (next day)

Ordinands:
Paola Valdivieso, Tania Dulché, Carolina Seminara, Lucía...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: The Ultimate Treasure

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Sep, 2020 - 14:00

A Bodhisattva is the ultimate treasure-seeker, searching for the Chintamani, the wish-fulfilling jewel, which gives all beings that which they truly desire.

But how does a Bodhisattva find this gem and what do they do once they have found it?  Sadayasihi explores the nature of compassion and how generosity can be both a means of expressing, as well as cultivating, compassion.

After all, a Bodhisattva would never keep the Chintamani for themselves…

From the talk entitled ...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: More Mud: Bigger, Beautiful Lotuses

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 7 May, 2020 - 14:00

Here we have Parami introducing the most archetypal of all the archetypal Bodhisattvas, the 1000-armed Avalokitesvara. At his heart he holds the chintamani, the jewel of human potential. All of us have this potential within us, just as the lotuses coming up out of the mud. When you find that which fills your heart, share the love!

From the talk launching the 2015 Triratna International Urban Retreat live in Adelaide, Australia. Her theme - and the theme of...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Ordinations at Chintamani

By akasajoti on Tue, 21 Jan, 2020 - 18:49

Ordinations at Chintamani

By akasajoti on Tue, 21 Jan, 2020 - 18:49

I am delighted to announce that on January 11 at Chintamani Retreat Centre, Mexico, we welcomed two new Dharmacharis into the Order from the Mexico City sangha.

Ex-Juan Antonio Diaz becomes: Subhananda which means He who has the joy of beauty or él que tiene la alegría de la belleza.
Private preceptor: Samamati
Public Preceptor: Virasiddhi

Ex-Pablo Sierra becomes: Satyabodhi which means Awakening to Truth or El despertar a la verdad.
Private preceptor: Virasiddhi
Public Preceptor:...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Parami’s Personal Wishlist for the Next 20 Years (con traducción al espanol) - Pan-American Convention 2019

By parami on Thu, 12 Dec, 2019 - 20:33

At the 2019 Triratna Pan-American Convention in Mexico, Parami gives a strong, beautifully challenging talk about the future of the Buddhist community she has taken a leading part in since the 1970s. Taking as her framework Sangharakshita’s 1999 talk ‘Looking Ahead A Little Way’, as well as the four traditional Verses of Acceptance for Buddhist ordination within Triratna, she gives us her Top 10 Wishes for the wellbeing and flourishing of the Order and Movement around it in...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Radical Dharma in Triratna - Looking Back and Ahead in Principle and Practice / Dharma radical en Triratna: mirando hacia atrás y hacia adelante en principio y práctica (con traducción al espanol)

By Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 27 Oct, 2019 - 04:21

From the 2019 Triratna Buddhist Order Pan-American Convention in Mexico, an excellent triad of short talks looking at what it means to be radical in the context of our history as a community - and what it might mean in future.

Upekshamati, founder of much of the Triratna community’s presence in Mexico, starts us off with a précis and his personal response to Sangharakshita’s talk from 1999 - ‘Looking Ahead A Little Way’

Aryajaya picks up the theme by giving her...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Las Sietas Magníficas (en español) - Podcast de la Convención Panamericana

By Candradasa on Sun, 27 Oct, 2019 - 03:26

Ya transcurrieron un par de días desde que inició la Convención Panamericana. En el comedor se pueden oír conversaciones en inglés y en español, incluso hay quien sirve de traductor para aquel que lo necesita. En este espacio, donde flores y el canto de los pájaros enmarcan las actividades de la convención, tuvieron la oportunidad de reunirse una vez mas. 

Hace poco mas de dos años tomaba lugar su retiro de ordenación en este mismo sitio; alguien tuvo...

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