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A short conversation with Silamani on his impressions on today's evening program at the Valencia Buddhist centre, that involved a talk by Parami and puja. www.thebuddhistcentre./urbanretreat #valencia #urbanretreat #Budismo #Buddhism #Budista #Buddhist #Buda #Buddha #Dharma

Ivan reporting from the Urban Retreat in valencia, Spain! En Inglés y Español. www.thebuddhistcentre.com/urbanretreat #urbanretreat #triratna #valencia #espana #espanol #Buddhism #Buddhist #Buddha #Budismo #Budista #Buda #Dharma

Munisha introduces the Urban Retreat on Sangha Day, Stockholm Buddhist Centre 21 November 2015. The music is "Erbarme Dich", from the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach, with mezzo soprano Janet Baker. The poem is A High Blue Day on Scalpay, by Kenneth White. Here it is, with Viryabodhi's translation into Swedish. A High Blue Day on Scalpay This is the summit of contemplation, and no art can touch it B...

In the last interview from the November Preceptors' College meeting, Subhuti talks to Saccanama about how the College has developed over the last 25 years and how he sees it developing in the future. #Subhuti #Preceptors' College #Triratna

Varadevi and Dharmanandi, both over for the College meeting from New Zealand, share their reflections on ordination training for women in Australia and New Zealand. #Varadevi #Dharmanandi #Preceptors' College #Triratna #New Zealand

Jnanasuri, Chandrashil and Yashosagar reflect on their time at Adhisthana at the Preceptors' College meeting and their plans after they leave. #Preceptors' College #Jnanasuri #Chandrashil #Yashosagar

Parami y Moksananda hablan de la reunion del Colegio de Preceptores Publicos que se celebra estos dias en Adhisthana, Inglaterra. #Moksananda #Parami #Colegio de Preceptores Publicos #Mexico #Spain

In one of two interviews covering different areas, Moksananda and Parami talk about their work for the Preceptors' College in the Spanish-speaking world. In English! #Moksananda #Parami #Mexico #Spain #Triratna #Preceptors' College

In conversation with Saccanama, Punyamala shares her reflections on conducting her first public ordination at Akashavana in September this year. #Punyamala #Ordination #Akashavana #Triratna

Parami interviews her good friends Paramachitta and Karunadevi about their recent time in Mexico for the Pan-American Order convention as well as their trips to Cuernavaca. #Paramachitta #Karunadevi #Parami #Mexico #Cuernavaca #Triratna Order

Paramabandhu introduces a new ordination retreat at Guhyaloka which will run for one month in September next year. It will be a bilingual retreat in Spanish and English. #ordination #Guhyaloka #Paramabandhu #Preceptors' College #Triratna

Saddhaloka, in conversation with Saccanama, introduces the November meeting of the Public Preceptors' College; a gathering of public preceptors from all around the world - India, America, New Zealand, Spain and the UK. He talks about some of the themes and issues they will be exploring together this week, including Sadhana, the future of the College, and the work of the Ordination team in India. #...

This is our final podcast from the 2015 Pan-American Convention here at Chintamani Retreat Centre in Mexico. We hear from Amala, Jnanadakini, Lokeshvara, Paramachitta, and Shantinayaka - 4 of whom are Order Conveners for the Triratna Buddhist Order - about how they they think it's gone and the highlights they'll be carrying back home. Con traducción en Español. Listen out for more mantras, Buddhis...

Members of the Triratna Buddhist Order on their Pan-American Convention join with women training for ordination to chant the Bodhichitta mantra for the benefit of all beings. The 'Bodhichitta' is sometimes rendered as the 'will to Enlightenment' or the 'heart-mind of Enlightenment' - signifying the complete dedication of our efforts to cultivate wisdom and compassion, in line with the Buddha's tea...

Viriyalila in conversation with the wonderful Saddhajoti, whose vision of a Buddhist retreat centre rising out of barren sugar cane plantation land has been fully realized here at Chintamani, near Cuernavaca in Mexico. It's a truly extraordinary achievement, and the great beauty and elegance of the place has been hugely enjoyed by all lucky enough o be attending the Triratna Buddhist Order's 2015...

As part of a meditation evoking the path of friendship and lineage, members of the Triratna Buddhist Order chant the 'kalyana mitrata' mantra in a rainstorm at Chintamani Retreat Centre in Mexico. Recorded as part of the 2015 Triratna Buddhist Order Pan-American Convention: https://thebuddhistcentre.com/tags/pan-american-2015 #mantra #chanting #harmonies #friendship #chant #singing #Buddhist #Budd...

We continue to celebrate the diversity of those attending the 2015 Triratna Buddhist Order Pan-American Convention in Mexico with two close friends from San Francisco. The theme of the Convention is friendship itself as a whole path of practice, and this is a pleasing ramble with two Californians taking in topics as diverse as the tech boom in San Francisco, the nature of interpretative understand...

The 100-syllable mantra to Vajrasattva, the Buddhist Bodhisattva figure associated with purifying the heart and mind in the development of wosdom and compassion. Recorded at the 2015 Pan-American Triratna Buddhist Order Convention in Mexico. #mantra #Buddhist #Buddhism #bodhisattva #Vajrasattva #chanting #chant #ritual

As part of our Buddhist Voices series we're live at the 2015 Pan-American Triratna Buddhist Order Convention. Abhayagita - whose name means 'Song of Fearlessness' - tells us (in English y en español) about her project to take women on pilgrimage from Mexico to India in the footsteps of the Buddha. En route we hear about her home country's engagement with the Dharma, and end up in a fascinating spa...

Parami - on her first visit to Adelaide - chats to Dharmacharini Dharmamodini about Triratna Adelaide, about which she is most passionate! It's great to hear someone speak with such delight at sharing the Dharma and building community at home... Subscribe to hear more: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-buddhist-centre-online/id498033013 #Buddhism #Buddhist #Dharma #Adelaide #Australia #NewZeala...

Parami is back, reporting from Australasia - or is it Oceania? - talking with two friends who have spent much of their adult lives reflecting on - and acting upon - climate change as an integral aspect of their Buddhist practice. A fascinating, sometimes sobering, but realistically positive conversation about what environmental issues have to do with the Dharma - and what we can do to get involved...

Parami's season of interviews from the South Pacific continues with an in-depth chat to Rijumayi, a young woman who has just joined the Triratna Buddhist Order and is pioneering the Australian branch of the international Young Buddhists movement out of Melbourne. It's a thoughtful engagement around the particularities of practice for young people - around ethics and the challenges of building Dhar...

Parami again from "Oceania"! She's in conversation here with her friend Maitripala who has been living in Europe for a year but is now back home and engaging with women seeking ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order. Great to hear the inspiration - old and new - come through as a new generation of women grapples with the challenges and joys of Buddhist practice and of community. And as a bonu...

Parami chats with Kate and Cynthia at the end of the ordination training retreat at Vijayaloka Retreat Centre in Australia. Great to hear inspiring tales from the outback as women deepen their friendships and Buddhist practice together... Subscribe to hear more: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-buddhist-centre-online/id498033013 #Buddhism #Buddhist #Dharma #women #Australia #NewZealand #commun...