In early 2019, I did a DharmaLife course with 8 others. We came together for five months from Venezuela, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Turkey and the UK, and together built a temporary community, the strength of which forged lasting international friendships. Throughout the pandemic we have come together online to catch up, check in, dance, and […]
2021 Women’s DharmaLife course Leer más »
The Dharma Team at Adhisthana formed during the lockdowns of 2020 out of a process of considering more deeply the future of Adhisthana, and it’s place in keeping alive the breadth and depth of Bhante’s presentation of the Dharma, so future generations can benefit. The team is made up of residential community members who are
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Like everywhere else, in March 2020 Adhisthana was faced with having to radically change it’s approach to running events as we entered into a new reality of life during a pandemic. Learning Curve Moving to running retreats online was a big shift – our usual way of operating and running retreats was mostly redundant, but
Moving Retreats Online Leer más »
Throughout the lockdowns of the last year, members of the Adhisthana operations team have been busy building a new website. The need for a new website had long been acknowledged, but remained on the to-do list. That is until, forced to close, there was more capacity to undertake this significant project. Saddhanandi had a vision
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Welcoming in the New Year, the Adhisthana Community, led by Saddhaloka, hosted a weekend retreat entitled – Building a Heaven in Hell’s Despair. The topic was drawn from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa talks, given by Sangharakshita in 1979. These talks opened up a world of inspiration, profound mystery, lightness, laughter, and endless possibility. It is here
Retreating Online as a Community Leer más »
In art school when he came across the Dharma, Yashodeva has been making art ever since. You can see his watercolours around the Adhisthana site, such as in the corridors and bedrooms of the accommodation blocks. He usually paints with watercolour, but at the start of 2021 undertook to do a drawing every day on
In January, the Adhisthana Community traditionally have community days. These are an opportunity to come together and spend some time building and strengthening the network of friendships that is the Adhisthana residential Sangha. Despite the lockdowns of 2020 meaning there was more opportunity for the communities to spend time together, we came together for five
The Adhisthana Community are delighted to be expanding to include two new beings. Ksantikara and Patrick spent 10 days in quarantine in one of the accomodation blocks before moving into the men’s community. Ksantikara moves to Adhisthana having just taken over the role of European Young Person’s Co-ordinator from Prajnaketu. He leaves from Sukavati, one
New Community Members! Leer más »
For the first international online Sangha Day: the Festival of light, the Buddhist Centre organised a round-the-clock programme for Triratna worldwide. Adhisthana community participated by hosting a session from within various points of the Adhisthana mandala. We began with stories of Bhante and quotes from him about the founding of the Order from Bhante’s sitting
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Sangharakshita died on 30th October 2018. Until his body was returned to be buried at Adhisthana, a vigil was held around the clock, with at least one member of the residential community here always meditating in the shrine room. Every evening Sthanashraddha, Sangharakshita’s last secretary, would ritually place a beautiful china cup of tea on
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