ULUBUDA

Hi all,

Buddhism Without Borders Poster 2008

We will be having our annual major event- Buddhism Without Borders on 22nd February this year. There will be a talk by on human relations, though a title for the talk has not been decided on. At the event we will also have an exhibition and free distribution, and the refreshments will be provided. It will take place in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building (SAF), the medics building basically.

The talk will be given by Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo, more information of Venerable can be found by googling his name.

This event will be open to invited members of the public, such as our friends from University of London Union Buddhist Association(ULUBUDA), other Buddhist organisations in universities in and outside London, and also public Buddhist associations. We are expecting about 80 people attenting the event.

Last year the event was a successful one, and this year we’re starting to prepare for the event now. We need to know if any of you would like to help to prepare for the event. The areas that you can help in are:

1) Exhibition and distribution – Preparation of exhibition materials (before the day), explanation of materials, and handling free distribution materials (on the day itself)

2) Venue and logistics – Setting up the venue (on the day itself)

3) Publicity – Distribution of publicity materials such as posting posters around college (before the day)

4) Food and sponsorship – Obtain food sponsorship from restaurants (before the day), collecting the food from the restaurants to college (on the day itself), or preparation of food (on the day itself).

It would be great if many of you can help, in one or more of the areas above. It will take only perhaps a couple of hours in one day.

If you would like to help out, please reply this email with your name, contact details and which area(s) you want to help in. Thanks!

With metta,
Siew
Secretary
IC Buddhist Society

Dear friends,

I hope you are all well and for those lucky few that are on reading week i hope you are enjoying the break:). On Monday 18th Feb we will be a having a:-

*Social gathering& Movie night [Life of the Buddha]*

This really is a wonderful opportunity for us to come together, relax and enjoy a great movie! Also, one of our fellow member Christopher Cairns has kindly offered to give us a short talk about his experiences. It promises to be an interesting night, so please do make an effort to come if you are free!

DATE: Monday 18th Feb.
TIME: From 6.30pm+ (whenever you can make it)
PLACE:  Room 2B, ULU, Malet Street WC1E 7HY
(http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=1302)

*Snacks and refreshments are also available*

Finally, as you may already be aware, our AGM is fast approaching and we will soon need new members to help out with our activities. So if you are interested or even have any ideas that you think might give ULUBUDA a bit of zing then please do drop me an email From a personal perspective (and i  don’t mean to sound bias) if you can spare some time (it doesn’t have to be a lot) and have the enthusiasm, then i really recommend it as i have met some truely amazing people and have formed great friendships along the way.

Hope to see you all soon,

With metta (loving-kindness)

Ruo

Hey, Just a quick update with next week’s events and also some further information about our activities for the next half term.

Monday 11th February- Meditation with Ajahn Sangthong.

Another chance to unwind and relax in a busy time of year for all of us. Ajahn Sangthong is back from Thailand and therefore able to take us again starting from this Monday. 
There is also the opportunity, for those who wish, to pay homage to the triple gem and receive the 5 precepts from Ajahn.

Date: MONDAY 26TH NOVEMBER
Time: 6.30PM+ (Whenever your classes finishes)
Place:  Room 2B,
ULU, Malet Street, WC1E 7HY (directions here: http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=1302).

Other Activities

18th February- Social gathering, bowling.
25th February- Meditation or Movie (Life of the Buddha)
3rd March- ULUBUDA 5th Birthday Party and launch of our Alumni Soc.!
10th March- Annual General Meeting
17th March- Trip to Amaravati Buddhist Monestary
22nd, 23rd March- Annual retreat, location to be confirmed.

Further information will be given soon!

Best wishes,
Alastair

Regarding Library and online Dharma books

The committees are planning to distribute all the books from our library, i.e. to let go of the library. If you are interested in getting a few Buddhist books for your bookshelf, please contact either Alastair or anyone in the committee. Although you may not read the books straight away, they can prove to be quite inspirational at certain times in your life and reading books on Buddhism certainly helps us progress in our spiritual paths. The main reasons that we would like to get rid of the library are that the library is rarely used and most of the books have online copies anyway. I would like to recommend a few books which are viewable and downloadable on the Internet:

• Aruna Publications has a very good collection. Alastair, our current president, especially recommends “Unexpected Freedom“
• Buddhanet has hundreds of Dharma books for you to read at your leisure
• Dharmaweb has a very good collection, including articles from, e.g. Thich Nhat Hanh, too.

You are very welcome to discuss any of the books in the sites above in our forum.

ULUBUDA Autumn Term 2007

http://imperial.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67309&id=222405865

Monday 19th November- Talk by Lama Lobsang Darjy
 ’An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism’
Some more info about Lobsang Darjy:
Lama Lobsang Darjy is a master astrologer and monk with a background in the Nyingma, Kagyudpa and Gelugpa traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, though he is a Gelugpa monk. For many years, he has been resident at Rajha monastery in Amdo, where he completed Buddhist studies including Buddhist philosophy and Vajrayana practices. During this time, he was Chant master for seven years, ritual master for three years, as well as studying Tibetan Medicine and Astrology. He studied medicine at the Qinghai Traditional Tibetan Medicine Hospital. In addition, Lama Lobsang is a writer and poet: his book, ‘One Voice’ tells of his experience as a Tibetan in a rapidly changing modern world. He is a member of the Tibetan Writers’ Association, under whose auspices he attended the Italian PEN Freedom of Expression Conference in Venice, in May 2005. Lama Lobsang is currently visiting the United Kingdom. He is a fountain of wisdom on Astrology in Tibetan Medicine.

It would be great to see you all there, tell you friends and spread the word! Tea and snacks will be provided.

There will be plenty of time for questions and Lama Lobsang much prefers a more conversational and relaxed atmosphere for a talk, so feel free to join in the discussion too.

Time: 6.30PM+ (Whenever your classes finishes)

Place:  Room 2B
ULU, Malet Street, WC1E 7HY (directions here: http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=1302).

Really looking forward to seeing you all there,

With metta (loving-kindness)

Ruo

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Meditation with Ajahn Sangthong

A chance to unwind and relax in a busy time of year for all of us.
There is also the opportunity, for those who wish, to pay homage to the triple gem and receive the 5 precepts from Ajahn.

Time: 6.30PM+ (Whenever your classes finishes)
Place:  Room 2B,
ULU, Malet Street, WC1E 7HY (directions here: http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=1302).
                                     picture:Ajahn Sangthong, taken from: www.buddhapadipa.com 

Events for October 2007

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- More information will be provided, but please feel free to mail info@ulubuda.org.uk for any query/question.

2: Freshers Fair at Imperial College

4: LSE Freshers Fair

5: LSE Freshers Fair, ULU Freshers Fair, Imperial Buddhist Society Welcome Tea (18:00-20:00, IC, SAF Building, Room 120)

8: Welcome Tea (ULU Union, Room2B, 6:30pm, Contact: Alastair, 077-1614-(zero four nine six))

Sunday 14th October: Temple Visit to Jamyang Tibetan Buddhist Temple

This is a great opportunity to see a working Tibetan temple and to experience the flavour of the living Tibetan Buddhism.

We are also very lucky as there is also a precious exhibition of sacred relics of the Buddha and other Buddhist masters at the temple this weekend. The relics are crystal-like objects found in the post-cremation ash of holy beings such as the historical Buddha, his disciples, commentators on his teachings, lineage founders and modern day lamas.

The relics have come to London as party of a tour run by the Maitreya Project. The relics will finally rest in a huge statue of the next Buddha ‘Maitreya’ that is being built in India. This statue will also function as a building with temples, schools and a hospital!

For more info: http://www.maitreyaproject.com/

http://www.jamyang.co.uk/

Arrangements:

1) Meet at ULU at 1pm.

We will then take the tube, either from Tottenham Court Road or Russell Square station, to Elephant and Castle tube station.

Directions to ULU- http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=13

2) Meet us at Elephant and Castle tube station 1:30- 1:45.

Here is a map showing the station: http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/mapping/map.php?pc=SE1+6LW

Here is a photo of the entrance we will meet at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Elephanttube.jpg

3) Meet us at Jamyang Temple: 2pm

For directions see: http://www.jamyang.co.uk/wheretofindus.html

Monday 15th October: Talk by LKPY (Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth)

A organisation for peace conceived by Buddhist monk Lama Zopa.

WHO?

LKPY (Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth) is an international peace organisation for young people, set to launch in the middle of 2007.

There are many peace and youth organisations out there, but what makes us different is our perception of peace. We don’t view peace as just the absence of war. LKPY believes peace comes from the individual – it’s about changing our way of ‘thinking and doing’ to a more serene approach to: ourselves; to others and the environment.

We aim to include everyone…

All faiths, non-faiths, cultures, sizes, shapes, colours, backgrounds and ages. Even though we say youth, we just mean young thinking. When people are young they tend to think differently, they are inspired to make a difference, make changes and they are passionate about the place they live in and surrender to old age habits.

There is a saying “a waterfall starts from just one drop of water”…LKPY believes “Peace starts from just one person”.

Where: ULU, Malet Street, (Directions: http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=13:)

Date: Monday 15th October

Time: 6:30pm

Room: 2

Drinks and snacks provided.

15: Shyla Bouer – LKPY

20: Buddapadipa Orientation

22: Meditation session

29: Meditation session

Thank you Ajahn for coming to this event and thank you everyone who has attended this tonight. It was a very great talk. With his great sense of humour, the talk carried a tone of light-heartedness and yet the Dhamma he expounded was very practical and insightful.

Thank for all the hard work that the committee members and everyone who has helped out to make this talk possible as well. The good kamma accumulated from the spread of the Dhamma is endless.

To follow up a bit, I have included a few links for you explore Ajahn’s teachings a bit further.

Ajahn’s PodCasts here, they can be downloaded as feeds, from iTune, or can be downloaded as individual mp3s. It is something quite good to put on your iPod or your mp3 player:
http://www.bswa.org/audio/podcast/AjahnBrahm.rss.php

It seems that the following 3 books are all that Amazon UK have, take a look:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-Bliss-Beyond-Meditators-Handbook/dp/0861712757/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-9697360-9501215?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177369002&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Ordered-This-Truckload-Dung/dp/0861712781/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/026-9697360-9501215?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177369002&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Opening-Door-Your-Heart-Happiness/dp/0734406525/ref=sr_1_1/026-9697360-9501215?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177369071&sr=8-1

There are quite a few videos of Dhamma talks by Ajahn on YouTube as well, I also invite you to take a look, they have good ratings in general:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ajahn+brahm+&search=Search

I hope that this will keep your Dhamma exploration going. Your comments to this post is warmly welcomed.

Metta,
Benson Hoi
Webmaster of ULUBUDA

Date: 23rd April
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Room 3E, 3/f, ulu

Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (known to most as Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on August 7, 1951. Currently Ajahn Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery, in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of Victoria, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual Patron of the Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore, and Spiritual Patron of the Bodhikusuma Centre in Sydney.

For more information, see Wikipedia: Ajahn Brahm

A few facts:

• Ajahn Brahm has played a very important role in creating an order of nuns in the Theravada tradition
  Ajahn Brahm has also been influential in establishing Dhammasara Nuns’ Monastery at Gidgegannup in the hills north-east of Perth to be a wholly independent monastery, where the Sri Lankan trained, Australian nun Ajahn Sr. Vayama is currently abbot.
• His books: Ajahn Brahm is the author of Opening the Door of Your Heart: And Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness (later published as Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life’s Difficulties) and Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator’s Handbook.

In shourt, Ajahn Brahm is a very attained and renowned Theravada monk. This is an event that we all should not miss. His Pod-Casts are very well-received and his Dharma talks and activities have touched and helped the lives of many people and will continue. This is a very rare opportunity that we have the pleasure to have him visit ULU.With Metta,

Benson Hoi and the ULUBUDA committee