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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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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

University of London Buddhist Association (ULUBUDA), Imperial College Buddhist Society (ICBS), Queen Mary Buddhist soc and Kings Buddhist soc are going to organise a day trip (temple visit) to the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery at Hemel Hempstead. It is very nice monastery and normally we need to take the tube to Euston, then take a train to Berkhamsted station and finally taking a taxi to the temple. This usually will cost around 20 pounds per person if you are travelling in groups. We will like to make it easier for you by renting a coach for 50 people which will take us from Central London to Amaravati directly. If we go by coach, it will only cost us

£12 per person
Money will be collected during any of our meetings before the trip

Sat 17th March

If the response is good, we will donate the extra money collected to Amaravati. It took us a while to decide the date and I picked Sat 17th March at the end as it’s the end of term for most of us. Hope you can make it, please feel free to ask any questions about the trip.

Schedule of the trip

9.00 Meet outside V&A Museum, South Kensington
9.15 Coach leaves for Amaravati (1 hour journey)
10.30 Arrive at Amaravati
10.50 Meal Offering to the monks and nuns
11.30 Lunch
12.30 Dhamma talk by Venerable Ajahn Sumedho
13.30 Free time
14.00 Meditation workshop led by Nick Caroll
16.00 End of meditation workshop
16.15 Leave Amaravati
17.30 Arrive back in London at ULU, Russell Square

Event on Facebook! | Photos

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Dear Friends,

I am please to announce that ULUBUDA is having its Annual General
Meeting (AGM) this coming Wednesday (7th March). The aim of the AGM is
to evaluate and report on all our past activities in the last academic
year and to elect the new executive committee for the year 2007-2008.

Details of the AGM - Date: 7th March 2007 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Room 2B, 2/F, University of London Union Building, Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HY
Map: ULU website

Rundown of the AGM -
6:30pm - 6:45pm Guests to be seated
6:45pm - 7:30pm Presentation on past events
7:30pm - 7:45pm Budget review
7:45pm - 8:00pm Question Time where members are free to raise any
issues relating to the operation and objectives of ULUBUDA
8:00pm - 8:30pm Election of the new executive committee

ULUBUDA is run by a group of students who are dedicated to spread the seeds of the Dharma and continue to bring happiness and peacefulness to each and everyone of our members. You do not have to be a Buddhist practitioner to stand for a position in the committee, we will appreciate any skills or interests you can contribute to the Sangha.
The following positions are available:

Chairperson (1 candidate)
Vice-Chairperson (1 candidate)
Dharma Co-ordinator - Ruoxing Wu Treasurer ( 0 candidate )
Secretary ( 0 candidate )
Activities Co-ordinator ( 0 candidate )
Webmaster( 0 candidate )

Jobs Description -

Chairperson:
Forming the core of the committee, a chairperson is responsible for the
general external and internal affair of the society. From affiliating
with other Buddhism networks to managing the executive committee,
he/she is crucial in guiding the whole committee in the right spiritual
direction by keeping check on the objectives of the events and by
initiating special projects for the benefit of the members.

Vice-Chairperson:
Supporting the Chairperson, the Vice-Chairperson is responsible for
overlooking the operation of all the activities and administrative
affairs within the society. He/she has to supervise the preparation and
evalution of each event and be sure to remind committee members of any
deadlines approaching. He/She shall act on behalf of the Chairperson in
his absense.

Dharma Co-ordinator:
Congratulations to Ruoxing Wu (LSE) who will be undertaking this job in
the academic year 07-08. Every year and by tradition, ULUBUDA appoints
its Dharma Co-ordinator to work alongside the Chairperson in setting a
range of Dharma-related activities embracing the different schools of
Buddhism. He/She shall provide an essential spiritual direction crucial
to the wellbeing of ULUBUDA and the wider student community.

Treasurer:
Responsible for keeping the society’s account by collecting membership
fees, applying for University of London Union Societies’ funds,
fundraising etc.

Secretary:
Responsible for all the paper-work and correspondence of ULUBUDA for
example, making room bookings at ULU, prepare minutes, keeping
membership forms and records of past activities etc.

Activities Co-ordinator:
Occassionally, he/she shall be in charge of major events from start to
finish and liase with other student societies if necessary. Publicity
work is also included in the duties of an activities co-ordinator as
well.

Webmaster:
Responsible for updating the website (calendar, photos, discussion
topics etc) and maintaining e-mail accounts of members in general and
members in the committee. He/She shall be working closely with the
activities co-ordinator when it comes to publicising events online.

It is truly a rare opportunity to be able to learn more about Buddhism
through working with ULUBUDA. There are abundant and valuable Dharma
resources available in guiding you to find your own spiritual path. We
welcome you to join the team. Your support to ULUBUDA will be greatly
appreciated and if you are interested in helping out ULUBUDA in any
ways, please do not hesitate to contact me and discuss with me your
preference.

Hope to see you all at the AGM.

Warmest Regards,
Selina

We have decided to change our website to allow easier navigation and maintenance, hence we our main site is now powered by wordpress. The frontpage will be a blog of ULUBUDA keep you up to date with our activities and events. For your information, the old site has been moved to http://www.ulubuda.org.uk/old/. Your feedback is very important and very welcome, please feel free to comment under this post or use our contact form.

We are currently adding some of our old events for your information, don’t worry if you see a topic posted in 2005.

Dear all,

I hope that you had a good weekend!

This Friday we are honoured to invite a very special speaker. The Zen Master Taiun J-P Faure, head of the Kanshoji Monastery near Limoges in France will be coming to give us a talk on ‘the human condition according to Buddhism’.

This is an opportunity not to be missed if you are interested in Zen Buddhism and Buddhism in general! I have attached the poster with all the information but if for some reason you can’t open it then here is the info:

‘The Human Condition According to Buddhism’- Zen Master Taiun J-P Faure

Date: 2nd March 2007 (Friday)
Time: 7:30-9:30pm
Place: Room 3B, ULU, Malet Street

See you then!
Best wishes,
Alastair

Dear all,

We are lucky enough tomorrow to invite Joona, a speaker from the Jamyang Tibetan Buddhist Centre to give us a talk on ‘Entering the Mahayana Path’ with focus on the cultivating of bodhicitta, the mind uniting wisdom and compassion.

This is a fantastic opportunity for us to find out more about the basic tenets of Mahayana Buddhism and how we can enter a practice within this tradition.

For more imformation on Jamyang here is there website! http://www.jamyang.co.uk/www/what_is_jamyang.html

For more information on Mahayana Buddhism and frequently asked questions on Tibetan Buddhism check out http://www.fpmt.org/faq/faq.asp#btradn

Entering the Mahayana Path
Date: 21/2/07
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: ULU, Malet Street (directions)
Room: 2B

Drinks and refreshments will be provided, all welcome as always!

See you soon,
Al

Dear all,

I hope you have been having a good week and are ready for some TIBETAN BUDDHISM!

Next week, Wednesday 15th, we will be hosting a talk on ‘The Power of Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism’.

The speaker’s name is Donald Brown. Donald has been a practising Buddhist, under the guidance of Lama Jampa Thaye, for over twelve years. He is one of Sakya Dechen Ling’s experienced team of instructors.

The title of Wednesday night’s talk will be, ‘The Power of Compassion’. Donald will discuss the importance of the mahayana teachings on compassion to Tibetan Buddhism. He will also lead a guided shamatha meditation session. There will be time for questions afterwards.

Attached is some more information on the Dechen centre, the Sakya tradition and Donald Brown.

Venue: ULU, University of London Union, ROOM 2B.

Date: Wednesday 15th November

Time: 6:30pm (Talk should begin at 6:45pm)

How to get there: http://www.ulu.co.uk/content/index.php?page=1302

If you have any questions or queries don’t hesitate to contact me.

See you guys soon,

Best wishes,

Alastair

07716140496

Information for Wednesday November 15th

The speaker’s name is Donald Brown. Donald has been a practising Buddhist, under the guidance of Lama Jampa Thaye, for over twelve years. He is one of Sakya Dechen Ling’s experienced team of instructors.

The title of Wednesday night’s talk will be, ‘The Power of Compassion’. Donald will discuss the importance of the mahayana teachings on compassion to Tibetan Buddhism. He will also lead a guided shamatha meditation session. There will be time for questions afterwards.

Sakya Dechen Ling is a new Sakya Buddhist centre in London that is part of the Dechen association of Tibetan Buddhist centres in the UK, Europe and the Americas under the direction of Lama Jampa Thaye and Karma Thinley Rinpoche.

Sakya is one of the four major schools of the Tibetan Buddhism. The tradition takes its name from the monastery founded in 1073 at Sakya in south-western Tibet by Konchog Gyalpo. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Sakya tradition rose to a position of prominence in the religious and cultural life of Tibet. Now the Sakya tradition, under the guidance of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin, is putting down roots outside Tibet and India.

Dechen is committed to a traditional approach to Buddhism, transmitting and practising the teachings in the same way as all the great Buddhist masters of India and Tibet have done since the time of the Buddha himself. Yet in accordance with the injunctions of those same masters, a traditional approach must be combined with intelligence, questioning and analysing the teachings in great depth, in order for them to be effective.

For further information please visit www.dechen.org