The assembled sangha at recent celebrations to dedicate Sangharakshita’s new home, Adhisthana, chanting the White Tara mantra to wish him long life… A fitting way to mark his birthday today!
By Centre Team on Mon, 26 Aug, 2013 - 08:26The founder of our Buddhist Order and Community turns 88 today! All here at the Buddhist Centre Online would like to join everyone else in Triratna around the world in sending our gratitude and best wishes to Sangharakshita as he celebrates his birthday at his new home in Adhisthana. Thank you, Bhante!
By lokabandhu on Mon, 19 Aug, 2013 - 06:05Following Saturday’s story on the 2013 ‘Triratna Artists catalogue’, Aaron Matheson, a mitra from Triratna’s Sydney Buddhist Centre, writes saying - “I have some news which would be great to see on The Buddhist Centre’s website: we have a new portrait of Sangharakshita. It was painted by Misha (Enrique del Val), a fellow mitra, who was recently commissioned to do it by Beth Sherlock. The painting is large, measuring 1.5 x 1.5 metres, and is a warmly engaged...
By Munisha on Sun, 28 Jul, 2013 - 02:00Ashvajit writes: Summer has truly arrived at Adhisthana this month, and the wonderful Herefordshire trees all around here are in full leaf. Bhante’s health, though still not completely predictable, continues on an upward trend. He has been sitting outside more often, enjoying the warmth and the gentle breeze, noticing Sanghadeva working on the area in front of the Old House, or Yashodeva overseeing the transport of one of the Borobodur-style rupas to the large shrine room. He has even taken...
By Candradasa on Thu, 6 Jun, 2013 - 17:47In 1982, Sangharakshita travelled to Chikhalwadi in Pune, to open a new vihara as part of the Triratna Buddhist Community in India. To mark the occasion he gave a talk on the significance of the event and the new space itself as a place for Dhamma, a base for the Bodhisattva Ideal to take root.
Thanks to Dh. Amoghabhadra and Dh. Achala at Dhammaduta Publications this talk had now been transcribed for the...
I have upladed the talk given by Ven. Urgen Sangharakshita at Chikhalwadi, Pune, India in text form. The talk was typed by Amoghabhadra and checked by Dh. Achala. Hope you all will like it.
