Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France - Paris Buddhist Centre.
The Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France, or Paris Buddhist Centre, or FWBO Paris, is the first French Centre of the FWBO. Essentially it is a community, or sangha, dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha, the practices of Buddhism and of meditation.
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The teaching and practice of meditation and Buddhism,
at ‘Le Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France’, in Paris:
Introduction to Buddhism.
Courses on Buddhism.
Buddhist retreat.
Introduction to meditation.
Meditation course.
Just meditation.
Questions and answers with Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita [audio]
at the « Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France », Paris,
on Saturday 23rd June 2007.
More photographs of the Centre Bouddhiste.
“Just like the vaste ocean has just one taste, the taste of salt,
so my teaching has just one taste, the taste of freedom.”
The Buddha.
The Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France doesn’t have any source of financial support outside of the suggested donations for activities, which is a traditional way of supporting Buddhist activites. Those who run and those who teach at the Centre do so completely voluntairly.
The teaching of the Buddha does not have a price, but to cover the running costs of the Centre Bouddhiste we suggest a price for each event. You are always welcome to give more or less as you wish.
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Activities of the FWBO were started in 1997 by Varadakini who founded le Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France. In 2002 she was joined by Suvannavira, and at the end of 2003 by Vassika. Varadakini left France in the summer of 2006 to a pursue a lifestyle dedicated to the intensive practice of meditation.
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Suvannavira, of Russian origin, lived in England from the age of four until his arrival six years ago in France. He has practised Buddhism intensivly for 18 years and was ordained in 1994. He worked in a Buddhist Right Livelihood business in Cambridge for 11 years. During that time he also practised meditation and studied extensively the works of Sangharakshita, and the most ancient texts of Buddhism, the Pali Canon, sometimes in their original language. He has been teaching at the Centre Bouddhiste since his arrival in France in the summer of 2002. You can read more about his life in English, French or Russian.
Born in England, Vassika moved to Paris in December 2003 in order to work and teach at ‘le Centre Bouddhiste’. She has been a practising Buddhist for the last 22 years, and was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 2001. She is also a mosaic artist.
You can find other Centres of the FWBO here.
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Membre de l’Union Bouddhiste Européenne ou EBU
© Centre Bouddhiste de l’Ile de France 2003-2008.
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Dernière mise à jour:
20 juillet, 2008.