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Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices NB. Amitamati has been in touch to say that in track 3 when she refers to having studied “Social Sciences” for 25 years she actually meant “Life Sciences”.

Maitreyabandhu reads a selection of his poetry - including from a forthcoming book on the painter Paul Cézanne - as part of Poetry Day Ireland 2018. Recorded in the Dublin Buddhist Centre, 26th April 2018.

Maitreyabandhu discusses his childhood, forbidden love, his path to writing poetry and what Buddhism can learn from poetry (and what poetry can learn from Buddhism) in this wide-ranging interview with Jnanadhara, the chair of the Dublin Buddhist Centre. He finishes up with a short poem. Interview recorded in the Dublin Buddhist Centre as part of the 2018 Poetry Day Ireland festival.

Talks from recent ECA July 2018

Talks from recent ECA July 2018

A set of conversations from a small, first gathering in 2017 of Dharma teachers in the Triratna Buddhist Community to discuss the Sikkha Project, looking at Dharma training throughout Triratna. Some intriguing conversations about first steps and next stages in helping resource Dharma practitioners internationally. Watch this space! https://thebuddhistcentre.com/sikkha-project

A set of conversations from a small, first gathering in 2017 of Dharma teachers in the Triratna Buddhist Community to discuss the Sikkha Project, looking at Dharma training throughout Triratna. Some intriguing conversations about first steps and next stages in helping resource Dharma practitioners internationally. Watch this space! https://thebuddhistcentre.com/sikkha-project

A set of conversations from a small, first gathering in 2017 of Dharma teachers in the Triratna Buddhist Community to discuss the Sikkha Project, looking at Dharma training throughout Triratna. Some intriguing conversations about first steps and next stages in helping resource Dharma practitioners internationally. Watch this space! https://thebuddhistcentre.com/sikkha-project

A set of conversations from a small, first gathering in 2017 of Dharma teachers in the Triratna Buddhist Community to discuss the Sikkha Project, looking at Dharma training throughout Triratna. Some intriguing conversations about first steps and next stages in helping resource Dharma practitioners internationally. Watch this space! https://thebuddhistcentre.com/sikkha-project

Our beautiful online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "After [Dhivati] died we found what she had done with her estate was to divide it into four. So each of her three children had one of these shares each and the last share she gave to the Order". The Fifty Years, Fifty Voices project has been partly funded by a...

To mark the great festival of Buddha Day (Wesak), when we celebrate the Enlightenment and its opening up of the path that leads to the end of suffering, here's a wonderful mythologically minded conversation with Sthanashraddha, self-confessed ritualist and all-round lover of beauty and of the Dharma as an aesthetic choice in itself. Sthanashraddha's considerable elegance of being and of mind comes...

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I had been looking for so long. And then I saw my first woman Order Member. And that was like the ‘fourth sight’… that inspired me to go for refuge" Amarapushpa "It’s not something that has to do with ideas and concepts… It’s about more practical wholeness...

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "So my impression of Bhante was that he was a magician who had some secrets that I wanted to get…" To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "…these issues that were very controversial, they didn’t make me want to run away. But they did make me wonder whether I could be a part of the Order." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "…there was something which came through Bhante which really was full of Dharma qualities, and that’s what started Triratna…" To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "…there was something which came through Bhante which really was full of Dharma qualities, and that’s what started Triratna…" To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "…there was something which came through Bhante which really was full of Dharma qualities, and that’s what started Triratna…" To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "…there was something which came through Bhante which really was full of Dharma qualities, and that’s what started Triratna…" To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "So my impression of Bhante was that he was a magician who had some secrets that I wanted to get…" To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices