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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By Ratnaprabha Cover image: Antennae galaxies colliding. NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In a direct encounter between two massive spiral galaxies…, huge cold clouds of molecules will be compressed, and millions of new stars will burst into life like a string of Christmas lights. As the galaxies first
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Would you like to join us? We are looking for new members of our communities to work full-time in the kitchen as Kitchen Manager and Second Cook. You will need to be either an Order Member or Mitra training for Ordination, with a serious interest in an intensive experience of community living and team-based right
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
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At the end of May Adhisthana hosted a long weekend for the first national People of Colour retreat for the UK. While Triratna POC events have been running in London for over thirty years, this is the first time that there has been a national retreat offered for people of colour drawing on Sangha’s from
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At Home Days for the Adhisthana Community by liv Twice a year, the Adhisthana Community traditionally has At Home Days. This is a space to come together and spend some time building and strengthening the network of friendships that is the Adhisthana residential Sangha. At the start of June, we gathered together for four days
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