{"id":241,"date":"2017-12-11T10:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:48:11","slug":"suryavana-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/?page_id=241","title":{"rendered":"Suryavana in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suryavana is the new retreat on mainland peninsula Spain. Hadayasiri and Dharmakirti share their experience of going on retreat and their enthusiasm for this new adventure for the Sangha in Valencia and for Triratna in Mainland Europe. We invite you to participate in our program of events run in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) as well as our extensive programme in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/275863569?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/275863569\">Suryavana Retreat Centre &#8211; NewsByte<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/clearvisiontrust\">Clear Vision Trust<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong>Suryavana Retreat Centre<\/strong>&nbsp;is an initiative of the Triratna &nbsp;uddhist Community.&nbsp;We mainly organize activities for the Triratna Buddhist Community, activities are also organized by other groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Triratna Buddhist Order and Community is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\">worldwide movement<\/a>of people endeavouring to commit themselves to the teachings of the Buddha, living in the conditions of the modern world. It is not a monastic or lay movement, we are simply Buddhists, in different stages of commitment and understanding, adopting as best we can the ethical standards of the Dharma (the Buddha\u2019s teaching) to our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Triratna is a Sanskrit term meaning \u00abThree Jewels\u00bb: the Buddha, the Dharma (its teachings) and Sangha (the community of all who follow the teachings). The founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order, Sanghar\u00e1kshita, considers that the defining act of a Buddhist is to \u201cGo to the Refuge to these Three Jewels\u201d. This is the principle or central orientation of the Triratna Buddhist community and everything we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our Buddhist retreats we can teach and practice meditation, we study the teaching of the Buddha, we relate to the Arts, we support each other through life, developing Kalyana Mitrata or Spiritual Friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the name<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suryavana can be translated as \u00abEnlightened forest\u00bb, \u00abBuddha\u2019s retreat\u00bb, or \u201cthe Illuminated abode of Loving kindness\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we first visited the site, one of the things that struck us was the magical light of the sun at sunset and the play of that light on the trees and on the fields. Within the grounds of the retreat centre there is a very beautiful pine forest located on a small hill. It is a somewhat mysterious place and propitious for doing rituals. This gave us the ideas for the name: the sunlight and the forest. It is said that Surya (sun) is an epithet of the Buddha himself; it appears in the sutras of the Mahayana as an image of the Dharma; and, at the same time, is used as a symbol of maitri, or Loving Kindness the essence of the Sangha. So \u201cSurya\u201d evokes the Three jewels that are central to the Buddhha\u00b4s way. \u201cVana\u201d, on the other hand, means dwelling or forest and, therefore, suggests \u00abretreat to the forest\u00bb, or withdrawal from mundane existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suryavana is the new retreat on mainland peninsula Spain. Hadayasiri and Dharmakirti share their experience of going on retreat and their enthusiasm for this new adventure for the Sangha in Valencia and for Triratna in Mainland Europe. We invite you to participate in our program of events run in English and bilingual (Spanish and English) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/?page_id=241\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abSuryavana in English\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suryavana.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}