William Blake had a profound and life-long influence on Sangharakshita’s thinking and imagination. The latest video from Urgyen House is presented by Paramartha with contributions from Satyalila and Ratnaprabha. It explores William Blake’s significance both for Sangharakshita personally and for the movement he founded.
By Prajnaketu Image credit How are you reading this? Forgive me for being so forward. Of course, you haven’t really got going yet. It’s probably too open a question anyway: the how of reading could mean lots of different things. First, there’s the medium – are you on your phone, a tablet, a laptop or
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Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and movement. In this new video, glimpse the events in the lead up to his funeral and for those who were there, remember his funeral from five ago.
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By Saddhaloka Greater still are the merits of those who hear, read and recite it with single mind, explain it clearly and distinctly to the people in the Great Assembly, and practise it as taught. The White Lotus sutra On a recent solitary retreat in a cabin in the Finnish countryside, in the midst of
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A Second Renaissance? Part 1 by Prajnaketu “It has been said that the renaissance that would be brought about by the discovery, in the nineteenth century, of the treasures of oriental literature, would be incomparably more glorious than that which had been ushered in during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the recovery of the
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Over the past few days Mokshapriya has been transforming the exhibition room inside Urgyen House. The previous exhibition, Precious Teachers has been removed, and the new Foundations has been installed and opens today. This exhibition looks at Sangharakshita’s activity in the 1960s; his return from India and the vision behind the beginning of a new
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by Katharina Kruppa, Essen Sangha I didn’t come to Adhisthana as a pilgrim. But when I went home I knew I definitely was one. What happened in between? The concept of a week with a light programme called ‘Pilgrim’s Week’ was a first for Adhisthana. I was happy they did try it and signed up
by subhuti There is a powerful quotation in the talk given by Bhante at the LBC on Padmasambhava Day in 1979. He says somewhere that our centres, our communities, and our co-ops, are all ways of contacting different aspects of life and transforming them, because this is essentially what our movement is about. “It’s not
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by vidyamala In 2009 Bhante said: “there is something about the movement, the Order and even about me that is not easily definable. There is a touch of something that cannot be buttoned down, something that cannot in the end be defined. Even the desire to button it down or define it is a mistake
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EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW R: When we heard the name Adhisthana something historic happened in us because we thought it meant, ‘Bhante’s place or our teacher’s Adhisthana’ but later on we understand it’s a different meaning more, bigger than that. That it’s blessings. In India, we say Adhisthana is a mark. Like the Buddha has made
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