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 […]
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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
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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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