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FWBO News
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- Author: lokabandhu
- Listed in: Buddhism Religion
- Tags: Buddhism buddhist dharma wbo fwbo tbmsg
- Added on: Feb 16th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
News and reviews of contemporary Western Buddhism from around the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, or FWBO.
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Invitation to participate in on-line research study for meditators
FWBO News is pleased to pass on this request for volunteers to take part in an on-line project looking at some of the effects of meditation. "Hi there,I'm Rebecca, a Mitra with the Letchworth FWBO group. "I'm currently doing some research for my ...
India, Karuna, and advocacy work
The Karuna Trust is the FWBO’s largest and most successful fundraising charity, sending well over UK £1,000,000/year to a wide variety of projects in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Tibet. In recent years their focus has shifted from the approach of...
TBMSG Amaravati: youth, Dhamma tours, and an appeal
FWBO News has received this report from Amitayus, a leading Order Member in TBMSG’s Amaravati sangha, in central Maharastra, India. The Buddhist community in Amaravati has long has a reputation for innovation and dynamism, it looks like they’re n...
'National Network of Buddhist Youth' Conference in India
Ann Dennehy, a mitra from the FWBO’s San Francisco Sangha sends us this report of TBMSG’s ‘National Network of Buddhist Youth’ Conference in Dehra Dun, northern India, held June 1-7, 2008.She writes -“I have just returned from a week on ret...
Going on retreat... for three years!
Vessantara was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 1974, and is well-known as the author of ‘Meeting the Buddhas’ as well as a number of other books. He’s led a long and active life in the Order, travelling and speaking widely – see ...
