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Connected Practice For Wesak: An Experiment For Lay Chan Practitioners

Hilary Richards

The sangha is important for Buddhist practice. It is the third Jewel of Refuge. However, it is not always possible for people physically to come together either for short meditation sessions or for longer periods on retreat. In order to address this and as part of the invitation to develop new ideas and experiments in Chan, the Western Chan Fellowship offered a “virtual” sangha event to allow…

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Categories: 2014 , Hilary Richards

Finding a Way to Practise

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A talk given at a weekend retreat 28th April 2013

Bodhidharma’s no dependence1

Bodhidharma, the 28th Patriarch in India, lived around a thousand years after the Buddha. He brought Chan to China, establishing the Chan tradition and becoming known as the First Patriarch of Chan. He was not the first to bring Buddhism to China; Buddhism was already there, as represented in the famous story of…

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Categories: 2014 , Simon Child

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