Portsmouth Buddhist Center

06/03/2026

Portsmouth Buddhist Center will have a tent with Aryaloka in the Pride Marketplace at Portsmouth Pride, Saturday June 20th! The Marketplace at Strawbery Banke is open 1pm-5pm. Visit https://www.nhoutright.org/portsmouth-pride for details. Much love to our LGBTQ+ community! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎
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04/10/2026

Saturday!

04/05/2026

Over 30 people this morning showed up to welcome our International Movement Coordinator, Jnanadhara, who is visiting from Ireland! Thank you for the lovely talk and warmth you exude while sharing about your role within the Triratna Buddhist Movement. Quite a turn out considering the holiday! 💛💙❤️☸️📿

03/23/2026

A new monthly gathering for BIPOC folk!

On the last Sunday of every month, we’ll be holding an online BIPOC gathering for people at any stage of practicing the Dharma.

03/20/2026

Sunday Gatherings: Life with Full Attention — A Practical Course in Mindfulness

Meditation, Dharma, Community — Every Sunday, 10-11:45am at Gateway Taiji in Portsmouth (875 Islington) or online on Zoom. Link in bio.

We may often feel like we’re not living life to the full. It’s as if instead of directly experiencing life we’re lost in a cacophony of thought, anxiety and chaos.

Increasingly people are turning to mindfulness for help with this. But the Buddha’s mindfulness teachings are far more than a way of coping with the stress of the modern world. They are a direct way of seeing deeply into the truth of life and living from that.

On this course you’ll learn, in a step-by-step way, how to practice the Buddha’s four fundamental dimensions of mindfulness, and how to apply them to your life.

Suitable for all levels of experience, including complete beginners. Join us for the whole series, or drop in as you like. Suggested donation of $10-$15. Your donations help cover our rent and support our programs. Please bring your own water bottle or thermos; we have meditation cushions and chairs at the studio.

*Copies of the book will be available for sale on Sunday mornings if you wish to read along. Reading is not required.

02/16/2026

Vajrabell has a new e-newsletter! The newsletter features articles on the teachings and practices of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community – past and present, along with poetry and art, and reflections from the nine sanghas in the US and Canada.

This issue features reflections on kindness from Prasadachitta (of San Francisco Buddhist Center) and a reprint of an article by Samayasri (New York-New Jersey Sangha) on her work and practice as an humanitarian. Sangha Connections highlights center happenings. You can subscribe to receive future issues directly using the QR code or subscribe button at the bottom of the web listing.

The relaunch has been funded by a generous grant from FutureDharma along with contributions from New York-New Jersey Sangha and Aryaloka, Nagaloka, Seattle and San Francisco Buddhist centers.

News, articles, arts and culture from the U.S. and Canada sanghas

02/15/2026

We are meeting in Newmarket at Aryaloka this morning instead of our usual gathering in Portsmouth.

Parinirvana — Feb 15, 10-3

Parinirvana is the annual observance of the death, or Final Nirvana, of the Buddha, and is one of the major days of reflection on the Buddhist calendar. It’s an opportunity to reflect upon the final days of the Buddha, and the great matters of Enlightenment and Death. It is also a time when we remember those we’ve lost, and reflect upon the impact of impermanence in our own lives and communities.

Feel free to bring a photo of a loved one who has passed in the last year or so, to be placed on the Parinirvana shrine.

Please bring a vegan or vegetarian dish to share for the potluck lunch.

More details coming soon!

LINK IN THE BIO to can access helpful information about attending workshops at Aryaloka.

12/27/2025

Sunday gatherings — Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life

Meditation, Dharma, Community — Every Sunday, 10-11:45am at Gateway Taiji in Portsmouth (875 Islington) or online on Zoom. Link in bio.

The title for our upcoming program comes from the book by Triratna Order member Vajragupta, Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Path through the Ups and Downs of Life* (Windhorse Publications, 2011). With Vajragupta’s guidance, we’ll be building on the Buddha’s teaching on how to become less reactive to “worldly conditions” that buffet us day in and day out — gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and infamy, pleasure and pain. Following his inspiring metaphor of sailing with the wind, we’ll bring the fundamental principles of conditionality, impermanence and karma to bear on the challenges of navigating day-to-day life in a wise and ethical way.

“On one level,” writes Vajragupta, “we know that the winds of change are blowing constantly; it sounds obvious, self-evident. And yet on some other level, deep down, we expect life to be fair, to come right. Our little irritations and disappointments, our sense of hurt and injustice when we don’t get what we want, reveal this underlying delusion. Learning to sail the worldly winds involves learning when we need to give up on our desires, adjusting them to the reality of the situation. Whilst matching our desires to the world will be difficult, expecting the world to match our desires is utterly futile.”

Join us for mornings of meditation, reflection and friendly conversation as we explore how to apply this perspective to our own lives and sail more skillfully and smoothly with the worldly winds.

Suitable for all levels of experience, including complete beginners. Join us for the whole series, or drop in as you like. Suggested donation of $10-$15. Your donations help cover our rent and support our programs. Please bring your own water bottle or thermos; we have meditation cushions and chairs at the studio.

*Copies of the book will be available for sale on Sunday mornings if you wish to read along. Reading is not required.

11/10/2025

More of the sweetest photos and videos of these two extraordinary women, Sue and Effie, from their Mitra ceremony over the weekend. I really wanted to include the sharing and rejoicing in merit, so have a listen on the two vids at the end. Thank you to Candradasa and Laura for filming and takings pics. We really are lucky to have both Effie and Sue in our community! Welcome and Sadhu! 💛💙❤️☸️ 📿

11/09/2025

First look at PBC’s first Mitra ceremony in a while! Today we celebrated Effie and Sue! We were 52 strong in attendance, making this gray day warm and glowing, positive and cheerful. Suddhayu led a gorgeous sevenfold puja in a way that would make any newcomer want to become a practicing Buddhist! Three Sadhu’s to Sue and Effie - more to come as others share their pics and vids from today. 💛💙❤️☸️📿