TRIRATNA BUDDHIST COMMUNITY (NOTTINGHAM)
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Mission Statement
Here at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre, we’re a friendly community of Order Members and volunteers who run meditation classes, yoga sessions, Buddhist talks, retreats and festival days that are open to people from all walks of life and levels of experience. As part of the global Triratna Buddhist Community, we’re here to teach and practice a style of Buddhism that strives to be compatible and relevant to a modern Western world.
About This Cause
The Nottingham Buddhist Centre is part of the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community and the word Triratna literally means the Three Jewels. These Three Jewels are often talked about as the three most precious things for Buddhists - the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. The Triratna Buddhist Order and Community is a worldwide movement of people who try to engage with the Buddha’s teachings in the conditions of the modern world. Neither monastic nor lay, we are simply Buddhists, at varying stages of commitment and understanding, adopting to the best of our ability in our lives the ethical standards of the Dharma. Triratna is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘Three Jewels’: the Buddha, Dharma (his teachings) and Sangha (the community of all those who follow the teachings). The founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order, Sangharakshita, considers the defining act of a Buddhist to be Going for Refuge to these Three Jewels. This is the central principle or orientation of the Triratna Buddhist Community and everything we do. At our Buddhist Centres we teach meditation, study the Buddha’s teaching together, engage with the Arts, support each other through life, and engage in our local communities. We also promote projects in which Buddhists can live and work together, and explore how to turn our work into a spiritual practice.