Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Munisha on the European Buddhist Podcast

By Centre Team on Sat, 13 Apr, 2024 - 16:32

Munisha on the European Buddhist Podcast

By Centre Team on Sat, 13 Apr, 2024 - 16:32

European Buddha is the podcast run by the European Buddhist Union (EBU), looking at current affairs and various aspects of the EBU’s work.

This month’s interviewee is Munisha, who lives in Sweden and runs Triratna’s Liaison office, responsible for Triratna’s relations and co-operation with other Buddhist groups, mainly in the UK and Europe. In this capacity she has worked with the ...

Triratna in the Buddhist World
Triratna in the Buddhist World

European Buddha: the European Buddhist Union podcast

By Munisha on Thu, 11 Apr, 2024 - 17:41

European Buddha: the European Buddhist Union podcast

By Munisha on Thu, 11 Apr, 2024 - 17:41

European Buddha is the podcast run by the European Buddhist Union (EBU), looking at current affairs and various aspects of the EBU’s work.

This month’s interviewee is Munisha, who lives in Sweden and runs Triratna’s Liaison office, responsible for Triratna’s relations and co-operation with other Buddhist groups, mainly in the UK and Europe. In this capacity she has worked with the EBU since 2012 and was elected to the EBU council as vice president in...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

A Luminous Emptiness - Meditating and Loving in Reality

By Candradasa on Fri, 16 Feb, 2024 - 23:30

In this latest episode of the Buddhist Centre podcast, we are delighted to welcome back Tejananda, one of the most experienced meditation teachers within the Triratna Buddhist Community. Tejananda will be bringing insights from decades of practice to his upcoming Home Retreat on The Buddhist Centre Live, ‘Emptiness and Compassion: The Divine Abodes’, starting March 29th. 

The retreat is part of a trilogy (so far!) exploring the Buddhist concept and experience of ‘emptiness’ (shunyata - pointing to the...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Buddhism and Politics

By Candradasa on Sun, 3 Sep, 2023 - 11:50

Is it possible to engage in politics as a Buddhist? What might it look like - and not look like - if we do?

Our guests this week come together for a thoughtful, provocative conversation occasioned by Vishvapani‘s recent article for Tricycle Buddhist review looking at the arresting, perhaps astonishing, fact that one of the most powerful people in the UK – Home Secretary Suella Braverman - is also faithfully involved as a Buddhist practitioner within the context of the Triratna...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

New podcast episode with Sagaraghosa Rosemary Tennison

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 30 Aug, 2023 - 12:20

New podcast episode with Sagaraghosa Rosemary Tennison

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 30 Aug, 2023 - 12:20

We’ve just released a new episode of the Windhorse Publications Podcast. In it, Dhammamegha talks with Sagaraghosa Rosemary Tennison about her upcoming book, Starting on the Buddhist Path. In the conversation, Sagaraghosa explains the meaning and significance of her name, and why studying Buddhism is different from studying other subjects. She talks about her first encounters with Buddhism, the importance of friendship in Buddhist practice, and how the Dharma (the teachings of Buddhism) can change our lives for the better....

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

A Renovating Virtue – Hartley Woolf and His Alfoxton Film

By Candradasa on Fri, 18 Aug, 2023 - 22:13

Alfoxton House in Somerset, England has a long and rich history stretching back over 1000 years. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is where the young William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their great friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped birth the radical new Romantic movement during a magical year there in 1797.

In June 2020, a new Triratna Buddhist community received the keys to this astonishing property set within 52 acres of...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Mindfulness and Imagination

By Centre Team on Sat, 5 Aug, 2023 - 15:15

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see the world as it really is – infinite.” William Blake

If you enjoy this conversation, come explore the theme online on our Home Retreat with Vishvapani and Vidyamala! Join Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination, September 1-7

This week we’re opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything that’s going on in the world around us. What would it be like...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

New podcast episode with Vessantara

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 29 Mar, 2023 - 10:00

New podcast episode with Vessantara

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 29 Mar, 2023 - 10:00

We’re delighted to announce the latest edition of the Windhorse Publications podcast: Learning to Live in a Free Way, with Vessantara.

Thirty years after the first publication of Meeting the Buddhas, Dhammamegha speaks with Vessantara about the new edition of this classic Dharma text. After learning how the book came to be, the discussion turns to the qualities of the enlightened mind, and the nature and power of these Buddha and Bodhisattva figures, and a whole path to living in freedom.

Please note:...

Free Buddhist Audio
Buddhist Centre Features

Dharmachakra and the Rebirth of Free Buddhist Audio (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 438)

By Centre Team on Sat, 18 Feb, 2023 - 18:52

Dharmachakra has been a going concern since Dharmachari Ananda first strapped a reel-to-reel tape recorder on his back in London in 1967 to record the first public lectures by Urgyen Sangharakshita under the auspices of the then Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. It has evolved over the decades to become an amazing Triratna Right Livelihood team – most importantly, a team of friends, working online together across the globe to bring the world the best...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Forever Friends (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 437)

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 Feb, 2023 - 21:39

A real beauty of a ‘lost’ episode from our archives! Recorded in a very lovely garden in Mexico in 2019, with nature sounds all around, Bodhikamala and Sanghadhara, who’ve been soul mates of a sort since before the age of 10, explore with us their long history of friendship as young people. A shared love of the arts, of musicals, and Harry Potter brought them together in summer camp and, eventually, led them to explore Buddhism together. Now as ordained...

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