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The Buddhist Centre Online is the home on the web for the Dharma Toolkit from the Triratna Buddhist Community. Thanks for supporting us as we work to keep you and many thousands of people around the world connected to community throughout the crisis ! 🙏🏻
Episodes
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Portraits of Samadhi
Get the full show notes and subscribe! https://audioboom.com/posts/8803894-portraits-of-samadhi What can we see in the faces of people photographed as they meditate? Come and explore some beautiful images with artist Hartley Woolf and friends! Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful,...
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The Intimacy of Art and the Dharma
Get the full show notes and subscribe! https://audioboom.com/posts/8776588-the-intimacy-of-art-and-the-dharma What's the state of painting now – and how does it relate to reality, Dharma practice and Buddhist life? A gem of a conversation with three working artists diving deep with life's big...
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A Mythic Retreat Centre for Ireland - Shubha Vihara, The Place of Beauty
A mythic Buddhist retreat centre in Ireland comes to life—in India! In Triratna, learning to understand what is truly beautiful is seen as a path to Enlightenment itself. In this episode we find ourselves exploring this in an unexpected and extraordinary way at the seat of all Buddhist paths and...
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Hinterland Sober Bar - Brewing a New Society in 2025
How to change your life and change the world over mindful drinks in a beautiful space in the city. Welcome to Hinterland... ✨ Enter Hinterland sober bar, “the realm beyond what’s known”… And meet founders Sanghadhara and Stephen Jeffreys in their cosy, cool, poetic, liminal space for a cocktail…
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The Three Body Solution - Healing and Belonging In Community
Home Retreats help us inject some of the powerful teachings of the Buddha directly into our everyday lives. This week we’re joined by Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka to talk about what lies behind their latest week-long collaborative venture with The Buddhist Centre [Live] - the enigmatically…
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Animated by the Dharma
A joyous conversation today with Buddhist artists and practitioners about illustration, animation, puppetry, model making and art - how all of these can help bring to life the Buddhist path in the most beautiful, moving and inspiring ways! Mandarava has always been a maker. Her way into puppetry...
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The Heart Of Imagination In Buddhism
The mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded in symbols W.B. Yeats These days, mindfulness is everywhere. How can engaging with images - with imagination itself - take our awareness deeper and help us connect with something truly transformative? Join our guests Vishvapani and...
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Taking Responsibility - Happiness And Transformation
Prayer to Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom May all beings experience happiness and its causes Be free from suffering and its causes, Never be parted from happiness And dwell in the condition of equanimity Ever since his introduction to Buddhism in 1976, Mahamati has been attracted to collective,...
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The Impermanence of Everyone - The Art of Hugh Mendes (Paramabodhi)
Get the full show notes and subscribe! https://audioboom.com/posts/8524353-the-impermanence-of-everyone-the-art-of-hugh-mendes-paramabodhi We are sitting in an East End art studio talking about death. The London tube rolls by outside, surfacing momentarily from tunnels dark as Hades, trundling…
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Mindfulness of Death and Dying (Kamalashila in Conversation with Guided Meditation)
Kamalashila is dying. So are we - we are dying. Really. In this recent conversation with Kamalashila following his diagnosis of terminal cancer - and in the closing guided meditation reflecting on death - this is the core theme to which we keep returning: the value of familiarising ourselves with...
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The Three Yanas of Buddhism: their development and characteristics
Dr. Andrew Skilton delivers this remarkably clear and engaging introduction to the Three Yanas of Buddhism: the Sravakayana (or Hinayana), the Mahayana and the Vajrayana, and considers different models for understanding them.
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A Luminous Emptiness - Meditating And Loving In Reality with Tejananda
Journey into love and the amazing potential for freedom of heart and mind with us... In this latest episode of the Buddhist Centre podcast, we are delighted to welcome back Tejananda, one of the most experienced meditation teachers within the Triratna Buddhist Community. Tejananda will be…
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The Dedication Ceremony In Lithuanian
Recordings of ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community. Translated and recorded by Ligita Montvilaitė
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The Refuges And Precepts In Lithuanian
Recordings of ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community. Translated and recorded by Ligita Montvilaitė
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Three - Fold Puja In Lithuanian
Recordings of ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community. Translated and recorded by Ligita Montvilaitė
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The Tale Of Tipu's Tiger
A great story of passion and inspiration in a 1990s American Buddhist restaurant. The trials, triumphs and tremendous impact of running an ethical business on the lives of those who served and came of age in their Dharma practice together. Join us for a ‘90s story of inspired Buddhist practice in...
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First Encounters with FWBO
First Encounters with FWBO by The Buddhist Centre
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Becoming a mitra & Order member
Becoming a mitra & Order member by The Buddhist Centre
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Glass restoring and other early jobs
Glass restoring and other early jobs by The Buddhist Centre
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Illicit adventures with Shabda
Illicit adventures with Shabda by The Buddhist Centre
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Early Days in Windhorse Publications
Early Days in Windhorse Publications by The Buddhist Centre
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Compiling Shabda past and present
Compiling Shabda past and present by The Buddhist Centre
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Working on the Complete Works
Working on the Complete Works by The Buddhist Centre
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Favourite book
Favourite book by The Buddhist Centre
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Joy of Bhante's Seminars and Shantavira's favourite
Joy of Bhante's Seminars and Shantavira's favourite by The Buddhist Centre
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Buddhism And Politics
Is it possible to engage in politics as a Buddhist? What might it look like - and not look like - if we do? Our guests this week come together for a thoughtful, provocative conversation occasioned by Vishvapani‘s recent article for Tricycle Buddhist review looking at the arresting, perhaps...
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A Renovating Virtue – Hartley Woolf and His Alfoxton Film
Alfoxton House in Somerset, England has a long and rich history stretching back over 1000 years. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is where the young William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their great friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped birth the radical new Romantic…
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Buddhism And AI (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 442)
What do Buddhists make of AI? And what does it all mean for our ideas of human consciousness? Check out our round table conversation about all things ChatGPT and beyond! We’re coursing this week in the heady, fascinating realm of generative and assistive AI, already seemingly omnipresent in our...
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The Race Conversation With Bodhilila and Eugene Ellis (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 441)
A conversation about race and the possibilities of connecting beyond fear towards hope. The construct of race is an integral part of Western society’s DNA and if we are to address the social injustice of racism, we need to have the race conversation. Yet all too often, attempts at such a dialogue...
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Roots In The Earth, Roots In The Sky - Triratna Day Special (The Podcast, Episode 440)
We're delighted to share a special Triratna Day 2023 podcast episode with you, recorded earlier this week and hosted by our friend Jnanadhara. He's joined by Saddhanandi and Nagabodhi to discuss the upcoming online gathering of the Triratna Buddhist community, which celebrates its founding in…
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Forces For Good - Challenging Emotions As Portals To Liberation (The Podcast, Episode 439)
A wonderful conversation highlighting the themes of a brand new Home Retreat – the latest addition to our growing archive of in-depth, beautifully resourced online spaces to help take your practice of meditation and Buddhism deeper. Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka join us to discuss the...
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Dharmachakra and the Rebirth of Free Buddhist Audio (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 438)
Dharmachakra has been a going concern since Dharmachari Ananda first strapped a reel-to-reel tape recorder on his back in London in 1967 to record the first public lectures by Urgyen Sangharakshita under the auspices of the then Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. It has evolved over the…
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Forever Friends (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 437)
A real beauty of a ‘lost’ episode from our archives! Recorded in a very lovely garden in Mexico in 2019, with nature sounds all around, Bodhikamala and Sanghadhara, who’ve been soul mates of a sort since before the age of 10, explore with us their long history of friendship as young people. A...
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Past, Present, Future In American Buddhism: Live From GenX (Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 436)
What do you get when you invite a set of experienced American Dharma teachers and friends from different Buddhist traditions to gather together post-Covid and share their practice and experience of American Buddhism? Well, something like this! The bright joy and sense of common tradition is...
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How To Collaborate Around The World (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 435)
The Triratna International Council has been a going concern for 11+ years–but in many ways it's just getting started. Meeting again in person for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, it's undergoing something of a renaissance; renewing itself through the work of Buddhists from around the...
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08 Aloka & Surata - What Have You Got to Show For It?
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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07 Aloka & Surata - Communication Isn't Words
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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06 Aloka & Surata - Sangharakshita's Take on the Dharma
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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05 Aloka - Aloka's Relationship to His Name
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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04 Aloka & Surata - Mind Reactive, Mind Creative
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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03 Surata - Surata's Relationship to His Name
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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02 Surata - Kalyana Mitras & Rejoicing in Hridaya
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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01 Aloka & Surata - A Non-Verbal Friendship
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "You think you know your mind, but you’ve probably never had an original thought in your life." To read more about this conversation and the project…
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The Magic Of Meditation With Kamalashila (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 434)
Welcome to a new season of the podcast! ❤️ Since the 1970s Kamalashila has been exploring meditation and, as an author and teacher in the Triratna Buddhist Order, shaping our understanding of meditation in all its practical magic and mystery. These days he spends much of his time at home in rural...
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07 Amala - What Does Going for Refuge Mean to You?
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "The Heart Sutra was my moment of conversion, when I was 17 years old." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit:...
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06 Amala - Day to Day Practice Nowadays
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "The Heart Sutra was my moment of conversion, when I was 17 years old." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit:...
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05 Amala - Receiving a Name
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "The Heart Sutra was my moment of conversion, when I was 17 years old." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit:...
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04 Amala - The Order as Practice
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "The Heart Sutra was my moment of conversion, when I was 17 years old." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit:...
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03 Amala - The Heart Sutra
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "The Heart Sutra was my moment of conversion, when I was 17 years old." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit:...
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02 Amala - Weaving and Self-awareness
Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "The Heart Sutra was my moment of conversion, when I was 17 years old." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit:...
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