Manchester Buddhist Centre

Rat­na­guna is mov­ing on from Sangha Night!

Chandana writes …

Some of you who attend Monday’s Sangha Night might not yet know that this spring will see a very import­ant change – the depar­ture of Rat­na­guna, after around two and a half years of very ded­ic­ated leadership.

Rat­na­guna has put a huge amount of time, energy and enthu­si­asm into Sangha Night over this period, provid­ing the full spec­trum of the Sangha, from new friends to Order mem­bers, with teach­ing, inspir­a­tion and his own dis­tinct­ively friendly and wel­com­ing approach.

I’ve been per­son­ally impressed by how he has taken great care to wel­come new­comers and make them feel at home – some­thing that I think is really import­ant, and that didn’t hap­pen when I was a new­comer (long ago, and not at this centre!)

In order to do proper justice to Ratnaguna’s depar­ture, this Sangha Night will be ded­ic­ated to him! It would be great if we could give him a fit­ting send-off by recall­ing our favour­ite Sangha Nights and rejoicing in some of his many mer­its. One of these is that he recog­nises the import­ance of grat­it­ude, so let’s show him some of ours for the bril­liant work he’s done in sup­port­ing Sangha Night for so long.

If you’d like to make a con­tri­bu­tion, please get in touch with me, and I’ll give you a suit­able slot in the evening’s pro­gramme, depend­ing on what you’d like to say (or recite, sing, or whatever!)

Arriv­ing early?

Some Sangha mem­bers eat together in the tea area from around 6 pm on Sangha Nights and you’re very wel­come to join in — please bring some veget­arian food to share