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  • Carmelites and Buddhists - Women in Spiritual Community

    October 26, 2026 · 24 min

    Welcome back to the podcast! For this first in a series of new episodes, we explore the historic handover of a Carmelite monastery in Hertfordshire to a women's ordination team in the Triratna Buddhist Community, and hear the fascinating…

  • Portraits of Samadhi

    November 8, 2025 · 48 min

    Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful, integrated absorption the mind can reach through meditation.And people’s faces in meditation have been a source of fascination (and distraction) for documentary filmmaker Hartley Woolf…

  • The Intimacy of Art and the Dharma

    September 13, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min

    Today we meet three Buddhists with a full time professional painting practice, exhibiting at The Art Pavilion in Mile End Eco Park. And we’re treated to a generous and intimate conversation about the tensions and creative dynamics between…

  • A Mythic Retreat Centre for Ireland: Shubha Vihara, The Place of Beauty

    March 29, 2025 · 56 min

    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 myths…

  • Hinterland Sober Bar - Brewing a New Society

    January 18, 2025 · 50 min

    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 and meaningful conversation about how Buddhism and the Dharma can…

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  • The Three Body Solution - Healing and Belonging In Community

    September 27, 2024 · 59 min

    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…

  • Animated by the Dharma

    September 13, 2024 · 53 min

    Mandarava has always been a maker. Her way into puppetry came initially through trying to make sense of deep family grief. Mandarava’s work is brimful of magic - filtered through fairy tales, her own deep immersion in illustrative art and…

  • The Heart of Imagination in Buddhism

    August 30, 2024 · 51 min

    The mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded in symbolsW.B. YeatsThese days, mindfulness is everywhere. How can engaging with images - with imagination itself - take our awareness deeper and help us connect with something…

  • Taking Responsibility - Happiness and Transformation with Mahamati

    August 16, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min

    Prayer to Manjushri, Bodhisattva of WisdomMay all beings experience happiness and its causesBe free from suffering and its causes,Never be parted from happinessAnd dwell in the condition of equanimityEver since his introduction to Buddhism…

  • The Impermanence of Everyone: The Art of Hugh Mendes (Paramabodhi)

    June 14, 2024 · 42 min

    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 its occupants inexorably on to somewhere. You can hear at intervals its soothing…

  • Mindfulness of Death and Dying (Kamalashila in Conversation, with Guided Meditation)

    June 8, 2024 · 1 hr 26 min

    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…

  • A Luminous Emptiness - Meditating and Loving in Reality with Tejananda

    February 16, 2024 · 43 min

    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 bringing insights from decades of…

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About the show

News, event coverage, mantras and rituals, Dharma conversations among diverse voices from the Triratna Buddhist Community around the world, keeping you up-to-date with the latest in our sangha. Check out our other podcasts! Buddhist Voices | Free Buddhist Audio (iTunes) | Dharmabytes (iTunes)