Welcome

Sangha is a great way of supporting your practice and supporting the practice of others attending. Thank you for your support. Alobhin led the evening with a talk on the life of the Buddha.

Next week – please come to Sangha to help give Sanghaketu a warm welcome!

Requests

Alobhin has also said that if there is any particular area of the Dharma that people would like to focus on over the winter to let him know.

Sangha library

A collection of Dharma magazines has been donated to us. They may be borrowed from the sangha library on Sangha night.

WhatsApp group

I would also like to advertise the existence of the Sangha WhatsApp group.  If you would like to join please contact Cathy. See contact list below.

Plum Village Mindful Mornings: 2nd Saturday of each month 10am – 1pm

Plum Village Mindful Mornings are held in the library at The Quaker House on Queens Road from 10am to 1pm on the second Saturday of each. Please bring a packed lunch for yourself. Edith Husk (Plum Village Order Member) provides a beautifully calm morning of meditation and inspirational discussion.

See more about Plum Village here.

Dates for your diary

Also see the events page.

Retreats

You may wish to check out a new Retreat Centre that Cathy has discovered. It is the the Alfoxton Retreat Centre online.

Dana

For anyone wishing to make a regular donation of dana the bank details are as follows.

Name Leicester Triratna Buddhist Community

Account 22731868

Sort Code 30 91 91

Your donations help to pay for the room for Sangha nights and Sangha Saturdays and travel expenses for visiting Order Members. 

Suggestions

If you have any suggestions for supporting the Sangha in any way – please do get in touch. 

Nottingham Buddhist Centre

Calling all GFR Mitras

All Leicester GFR Mitras have been invited to go on the Nottingham Buddhist Centre database to enable them to keep you informed of any events/courses that might help you in your GFR journey. If you would like to go on this database please do reply to this email with your Name, email address and possibly a telephone number so that I can pass these on to the Nottingham Buddhist Centre.

Midwest Jewel Quest

We have received the following information from Khemasiri who is based at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre:

The preceptors in the Midwest region are bringing Midwest Jewel Quest back to life. There were a few events before covid caused it to pause.

Midwest Jewel Quest are events for women training for ordination in the Midwest region. The aim is to support Tiratanaloka and help women training for ordination to connect regionally. The events are about making friends, practising the dharma and having fun!

The order is divided into regions. The Midwest region consists of city centres, groups and retreat centres including:  Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Shrewsbury, Llangollen, Adhisthana, Malvern, Ledbury, Hereford, Worcester, Taraloka, North Wales and West Wales.

2024 Events Planned

• Saturday 29th June 11am-5pm: Birmingham Buddhist Centre with Pranjagita
• 6th – 8th September: Retreat Weekend at Taraloka

More information about these events and how to book will be sent in due course, you may wish to save the dates for now.

We aim to organise 2 events a year.

With love

Khemasiri (on behalf of the Midwest preceptors)