Arthaketu introduces Sangha Day in the context of its fellow festivals, Buddha Day and Dharma Day.

Sangha Day is one of the four main Buddhist festivals in the year, usually held at the time of the full moon. Traditionally Buddhists would gather together for teachings, to meditate and to chant.

We still do this today, gathering in large numbers to celebrate our spiritual community and creating a strong sense of collective practice.

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Thirty minute talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 21st November 2015.

The retreat’s theme of Living in the Greater Mandala is taken from Wisdom beyond Words by Sangharakshita, a commentary on the Ratnaguna Samcayagatha Sutra.

“The aim . . is to bring an attitude of pure aesthetic appreciation to whatever circumstances that come our way”

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In a talk at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Triratna Night, 5th October 2015, Singhashri says goodbye, as she leaves Manchester for London.

Reflecting on her four years here, she raises one or two interesting questions for our Buddhist movement.

Singhashri has been practising Buddhism and meditation since 1999 and was ordained in the Triratna Buddhist Order in 2010. Before arriving in Manchester in 2012, she was involved with the San Francisco Buddhist Centre.

As well as teaching Buddhism and meditation locally and at retreat centres across the UK, she has worked for several years for Breathworks, a non-profit organisation offering mindfulness-based strategies for living well with stress, pain and illness.

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First we see the Buddhas from afar, then we are drawn more and more into their world, until we meet them most fully in the intimacy of the final mantras and silence.

Particularly addressing people with little experience of puja, Garavachitta reflects on the stages of the journey and how we can enter it more deeply.

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At her leaving celebration, Dharmottora remembers with appreciation the people and projects she’s been involved with at Manchester Buddhist Centre

A talk given by Dharmottara at Triratna Night at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 21st September 2015

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Continuing the theme of ‘turning towards’, Sona explores how we can do this collectively, as a Sangha.

Talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre’s Sangha Retreat at Adhisthana, May 2015.

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Basing her talk on Christine Fry’s poem, The Great Turning, Saddhanandi dis­cusses the power of turn­ing towards our exper­i­ence as individuals.

Talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre’s Sangha Retreat at Adisthana, May 2015.

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How Mara the demon was transformed and his future Buddhahood assured. Dead dogs, showers of money and shapeshifting in early Buddhist stories.

A talk given by Vajratara at Triratna Night at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 18th May 2015.

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Launching his book, The Buddha on Wall Street, Vaddhaka speaks on how Buddhists can play a role in building an alternative economic world to that of Capitalism

Talk given at Triratna Night, Manchester, 11th May 2015

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