Sravaniya

Sravaniya | Boston, USA

When I was living far from a sangha, FBA was like a good Dharma friend. Our regular contributions let it continue its indispensable work.

When I was living far from a sangha, FBA was like a good Dharma friend. Our regular contributions let it continue its indispensable work.

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dharmachakra

Dharmachakra has been registered as a charity (non-profit organisation) in the U.K. for over 35 years. Registered charity, no. 294143. Dharmachakra is also a classified US non-profit 501(3)C. Tax ID number, 26-3940667.

Our team and board of trustees is spread around the world, making us a truly online context dedicated to offering the teachings of the Buddha freely to all.

These days, Dharmachakra looks after the main online presence of the Triratna Buddhist Community. We host The Buddhist Centre Online, as well as many Triratna Centre web sites around the world.

The Dharmachakra Archives are the sound and text archives of the The Triratna Buddhist Community and Order, founded in the late 1960s by Dharmachari Ananda to preserve and distribute the radical, revolutionary Buddhist teaching and thought of Urgyen Sangharakshita as he began a new Buddhist Movement initially tailored to western audiences.

Free Buddhist Audio is the home of our online service, and has been live since December 2006. Here we distribute our collections as we make digital versions of them, and it's where you'll also find community users from all over the world uploading their own archives. We started with a hand-picked set of around 450 talks. 15+ years later, you will find over 5,000 talks. on all aspects of Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness.

We hope you'll enjoy our selection of talks, interviews, seminars, and question-and-answer sessions from the early 1960s to the present day, including an increasing number in languages other than English.

triratna buddhist order and community

The Triratna Buddhist Order (formerly the Western Buddhist Order) is an international network of committed Buddhists founded by Urgyen Sangharakshita and dedicated to communicating the Buddhaʼs teaching in ways appropriate to the modern world. The wider association of friends of the Order in that work is known these days as the Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order).

The essence of Buddhism is timeless and universal. But the forms it takes always adapt according to context. Now that Buddhism has spread around the globe, the task is to create new traditions relevant to our time and culture, wherever we live. Triratna was started in response to these issues and during the past 50+ years has become one of the largest Buddhist movements, with activities in many cities and rural retreat centres around the world.

Reports of current activities and events in our community can be found on Triratna Highlights, part of Triratna’s growing online platform, The Buddhist Centre Online. Many of our friends worldwide also maintain websites in their native languages: find a Triratna Centre.