Jun 29, 2023
Maitrisiddhi introduces us to Shinran, the Japanese teacher on the refuge tree of the Triratna Buddhist Community. She explores what Shinran has to tell us about faith and ordinariness, both of them encourage us to rest in Metta towards our unenlightened mind. Excerpted from the talk entitled: An Introduction to...
Jun 26, 2023
In this first talk in a series of three introducing the Pureland texts as a practice in themselves, Ratnaguna offers an excellent exploration of imagination. Excerpted from the talk The Pure Land and Imagination given at given at Adhisthana, England, as part of the Triratna European Chairs Assembly
Jun 22, 2023
Taranita
discusses Pure and Impure Buddhalands and possible meanings and
interpretations for us. Excerpted from the talk entitled
Pure and Impure Buddhalands - This Very Place, the Lotus
Paradise
given at
Bristol Buddhist Centre,
2015.
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Jun 19, 2023
Sangharakshita deals in depth with what a Buddha Land is, how and by whom it comes to be built, and what all of this has to do with us.
Excerpted from the talk entitled
Building the Buddha Land
from the series
The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti
Nirdesha,
1979.
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Jun 15, 2023
Nagapriya explores the emergence of the Bodhisattva Ideal in the Mahayana tradition by discussing the historical context in which this basic concept developed, its ties to early Buddhist texts, and what the bodhisattva's life entails, on both the mundane and cosmic levels.
From the talk entitled The Ideal of...