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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Last year, we had the privilege of hosting a one-month international course for Order Members from around the world, aiming to provide training, support, and the opportunity to forge deep friendships and connections within the international sangha. Led by a team of Order members who live and work at Adhisthana, participants delved into the four
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by maitripa Last year at the Order Convention, I was so struck by the amazing Amitabha thangka in the shrineroom in Wymondham. Having just come back from my ordination retreat in Guhyaloka, I was overjoyed to see such a beautiful image of Amitabha in exactly the form that I visualise in sadhana. In the thangka,
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by Vishvapani Over the last few years I’ve been rereading and writing about Sangharakshita. I started thinking I had something to say about him that would integrate criticisms with appreciation and might be helpful to others in Triratna. But the more I tried to identify what I wanted to say, the deeper I found myself
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We’re excited to announce a special event happening at Adhisthana from the 18th to the 23rd of June that we’d like to invite you to participate in. For 108 hours, a group of individuals will circumambulating around Sangharakshita’s burial mound. We would be honored if you would join us. It would be wonderful to have as
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by Ratnaghosha After many years of focussing mainly on the Pali Canon I have recently begun to study some Mahayana sutras. In particular, I’m looking into The White Lotus Sutra and the Vimalakirti Nirdesa. The world of a Mahayana sutra is a very different world to the Pali Canon (or at least most of the
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A newly rediscovered Sanskrit version of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa has been translated into English. The new translation reveals subtle differences to the meaning of parts of the teaching, including Vimalakirti’s ‘thunderous silence’! There are several retreats on Vimalakirti happening at Adhisthana this year, one with Dhivan, and one with Vessantrara.
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At the very last Order gathering at Adhisthana that Bhante attended, Prakasha and Srisambhava’s huge Padmasambhava rupa formed the central shrine. Before he left us, Bhante whispered something to Paramartha and the next minute we saw him being wheeled around in circumambulation, bowing again and again. On February 24, ten years to the day from Bhante’s
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We are very pleased to let you know that some of the journals in the Sangharakshita Library can now be accessed digitally. Our aim is to develop the Sangharakshita Library as an ever more valuable resource for the Movement. One step in that direction has been digitising some of the journals so that they can
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