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Windhorse:Evolution begin month-long working retreat
Windhorse: Evolution is the FWBO’s largest and most successful business, trading ethically in giftware, supplying shops all over the UK and beyond. It is the largest Buddhist team-based right livelihood business in the UK and probably Europe, empl...
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The Lama\'s Pyjamas: now for sale at the London Buddhist Centre!
Claudine Edwards writes from the LBC to say - “Padmalila and I are very excited to announce the start of a new Team Based Right Livelihood business in Bethnal Green, just along the road from the FWBO's London Buddhist Centre. It's a charity shop c...
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Windhorse:Evolution follows through on successful "survival strategy"
Windhorse:Evolution is the largest and most successful of the FWBO’s many Right Livelihood businesses, with a chain of some 20 Evolution shops and a massive warehouse on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK. Over the years they’ve been a major source ...
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‘Living well with pain and illness’ was first published last year by Vidyamala, founder of Breathworks - one of the FWBO’s most successful Right Livelihood businesses. We’ve recently heard her book is now being translated and published in 6 ...
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Right Livelihood in the USA: Tipu's Chai
Tipu’s Tiger was a much-loved Indian Restaurant in the small mid-Western town of Missoula, Montana - and the FWBO’s first Right Livelihood business in the States. Sadly the business closed as a Buddhist Right Livelihood some years ago - but the ...
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Mitraloka celebrate their second birthday
Nagaketu, Director of Mitraloka, TBMSG’s School of Foreign Languages in Nagpur, Central India, writes to say -“Mitraloka School of Foreign Languages celebrated its second anniversary on 15th June. A special get-together of all present and ex-stud...
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Aryaloka Computer Education: profiling a Community and Right Livelihood Project in Nagpur, India
Dhammamitra Nagaratna from Kerala in South India writes with a great profile of a very successful grass-roots initiative in Nagpur, Central India. This is the ‘Aryaloka Computer Education and Community Center’, one of many TBMSG projects in the ...
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Buddhafield prepares for the summer; volunteers needed
Buddhafield is a major FWBO sangha in the West of England. They run the ever-popular Buddhafield Festival, a series of camping retreats through the summer, the Buddhafield Café, an organic vegetable growing business, and manage two very beautiful p...
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Archive photos from early days of FWBO now on-line
For the past two years Padmakara, an Order Member from Manchester UK, has been occupying himself in his spare time scanning hundreds and even thousands of historic photographs from the FWBO Archives, held by ClearVision. Four collections of these ha...
