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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Adhisthana was delighted to be able to host an Ordination retreat here in September, with full covid-safety adherence. This continues the lineage of those ordained at Adhisthana. The Public Ordination ceremony took place outside, in the Prajnapramita Courtyard. Prajnapraramita is the ‘mother of all buddhas’ – the realisation perfection of wisdom personified. In total 16
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There is now a beautiful, large stone Buddha rupa at the entrance to Adhisthana. The community all offered blessings from the individual areas of responsibility represented at Adhisthana: the College of Public Preceptors, the International Council, the International Order Office and those who serve Adhisthana itself. We buried the blessings in the ground all around
On Wednesday 26th August, Adhisthana celebrated the anniversary of Bhante Sangharakshita’s birthday. You can watch the full video of the puja, which was live streamed to Facebook, here. Saddhanandi writes – I find it hard to believe that only two years ago Bhante was still alive and would have been enjoying the celebrations at Adhisthana
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Since Adhisthana closed, we have been cancelling retreats and refunding those booked on a rolling basis. When contacting people we have also been inviting them to donate their deposit (or more), to be distributed to those Triratna centres and organisations that will need additional help with funding during these uncertain times. There has been a
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On Saturday many of us participated in the first online International Buddha Day celebration hosted by the Buddhist Centre Online. It was a fantastic program coming from around the world, with events from India, Australia, Mexico, the US, many countries in mainland Europe, and the UK. At Adhisthana a huge amount of effort went into
A few weeks ago, just after India had abruptly gone into lockdown, Aryajaya brought to the community the story of her friend Abhyanavita. Abhayanavita did the Adhisthana International Course in 2018, and then returned to her home in Amravati, a city in Maharashtra. She runs a project there with a team of 4 Order Members
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A playlist of three videos from the start of the lockdown at Adhisthana. Saddhanandi and Caroline discuss the lockdown, how best to practice and generosity.
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James and Subhuti have a conversation about lockdown, reflecting on what we can learn, the preciousness of this opportunity, and what to be careful of. Tomorrow has been cancelled Subhuti in conversation with James reflects on the opportunity available to us during the lockdown if we don’t rush to fill it with distractions. The global
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On Thursday afternoon the community came together in Bhante’s lounge and sat around his chair to listen to his 1965 talk on the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can listen to that talk here : The Arising of the Bodhicitta – 1965 – Sangharakshita View this post on Instagram Bhante’s chair, Bhante’s words.
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