By Ratnaghosha This January we are going to plant another woodland at Adhisthana. Another 500 trees will join up with the current woods in the upper field to create more wildlife habitat, provide wind shelter for the flower gardens and enhance the environment. At Adhisthana there are the usual wild creatures such as squirrels, weasels, […]
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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
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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BY ARTHAVADIN, Convenor, International Council Adhisthana feels so integral to the life of our community that it’s hard to believe it’s only been in existence for ten years. How did we ever manage without it? From the outset, Adhisthana has always been so much more than just a retreat centre. It was Bhante’s home and has
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BY SATYALILA, Order Member, Bristol ‘If Adhisthana is anything, it is a nexus. It is a place where the light of the transcendental makes landfall. When two Dharmafarers meet on the basis of their Dharma practice, an alchemy happens. Between them, in their openness to each other, there is created the space in which the
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BY KARUNIKA, Former Director FWBO Central The project that eventually became Adhisthana has its roots in what was originally referred to as the ‘Library Project’. The library remained a central part of the project and important to Bhante. Throughout his life Bhante was a phenomenal reader, able to read and digest several books in a
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BY DHIVAN, Visiting Scholar, Adhisthana Adhisthana has hosted five Philosophy Symposiums which encourage philosophical engagement with aspects of the Dharma, such as the meaning of the Transcendental, and of Higher Evolution. Adhisthana is big enough to hold this kind of deep questioning at the same time as being at the very centre of the Triratna
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BY SADDHAJALA, Women’s Mitra Convenor, Krakow, Poland Two phrases come to my mind when I think of Adhisthana: a sacred mandala and home for the international Sangha. It is a place where the transcendental and the mythical create the foundation for a place that is outside of space and time. A heart for the movement
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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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