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Updated 13th August 2015

Encyclopedias

The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia

The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia includes a page Bodhicari Precepts by Bodhicarini Upasika Jayasili Jacquetta Gomes.

Websites

Cumbria’s Green Handbook

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Look in section Meditation

See Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) and CMDM Cumbria Moon Day Meditation Ketumati Buddhist Vihara (Manchester) Past issues of Ketumati Buddhist Vihara (Manchester) Newsletter, include several articles about and photos of BGKT, and articles by BGKT members. Available on line at Click on Press Room

Lakeland Echo

At bottom of page click on Archive

Click on 2007 November Click on 27 Click on News Mayor’s Blessing

NBO Network of Buddhist Organisations UK

The NBO Network of Buddhist Organisations UK News section contains several items and photographs about Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada).

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Chris Ward (The NBO Development Worker) visited the Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) on 31st October and 1st November 2006. His account of the visit was posted on 23rd November 2006 and is also available at:

Articles and Book Reviews

“Awards and Accolades for Buddhist Women”, Sakyadhita International Assocation of Buddhist Women Newsletter, 17(1) (Summer, 2008) 14. Available on line at Click on Newsletters

“Barlaam and Josaphat”, Jacquetta Gomes, The Buddhist Christian Vedanta Network Newsletter, (February, 2010), 17-23. Available on line at

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Book Reviews: Introducing Buddhism by Venerable Dr Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera Abhidhaja Maharatthaguru Aggamaha Pandita DLitt DLitt (1896-1998) and Jacquetta Gomes Bodhicarini Upasika Jayasili”, The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society, 89 (3) (November 2014) 240.

“A Brief History of the Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)”, Upasaka Dhammika (Duncan Fisher), Ketumati Buddhist Vihara (Manchester) Newsletter, 1 (2006) 2. Available on line at Click on Press Room

“A Brief History of the Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)”, NBO [Network of Buddhist Organisations UK] Connections, (Winter, 2007) Issue 2, 16-17. Available on line at

at the bottom there are links to the NBO Connections The NBO E-zine Issues 1 and 2)

“The Buddhist festival of Vesak”, South Lakeland Age UK: The Magazine for Older People in South Lakeland, 12, (May, 2011) 17. Available online at

Available online at

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“Buddhist Precepts and Lay Dhamma Teaching in the West”, Jacquetta Gomes, Yasodhara Newsletter on International Buddhist Women’s Activities, (October-December, 2008), 25(1) No 97, 15-17. (ISSN 0875-1996)

“Buddhist Precepts and Lay Dhamma Teaching in the West”, Jacquetta Gomes, Lotus: the Lay Review and Newsletter of the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara, Issue 31 (Spring, 2010) 4-6. Available online at

“Buddhists, Fire and Rescue Service and Police Working Together in Cumbria”, Jacquetta Gomes Bodhicarini Upasika Jayasili, CC Stuart Hyde QPM, and Fire Officer Will Richardson (Service Delivery Manager Kendal Locality Office),Faith Initiative, Issue 27 (September, 2012) 10. Available online at

“Cumbria Fire Service meets the Buddhists”, Cumbria’s Green Handbook, (Spring 2013) 7.

“The development and use of the Eight Precepts for lay practitioners, Upasakas and Upasikas in Theravada Buddhism in the West”, Jacquetta Gomes, Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 5(1) (May, 2004) 47-63 (ISSN 1463-9947). Available online at

Available online at

“The Dhammapada: A Buddhist Bible?”, Titus Gomes, The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society, 68(1), (May, 1993) 21-24. (Erratum of printing errors published 68(2) (August, 1993) page 88). www.thebuddhistsociety.org/middleway/index.html) (Erratum of printing errors published 68(2) (August, 1993) page 88).

“News: Jacquetta Gomes as a Contemporary Person of Distinction”, MLBD [Motilal Banarsidass] Newsletter: A Monthly Indological Bibliography English & Hindi, 30(12), (December, 2008) 15. (ISSN 0970-1535)

“Prayer and Meditation: Loving-Kindness”, Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada), Faith Initiative: Embracing Diversity, Issue 10 (Autumn, 2003), 14. Available online at

Available online at

Click on Find a Past Issue Click on Issue 10 Click on Prayer and Meditation

“Reflections on Meditation: Buddhist Meditation”, The Buddhist Group of Kendal, Interreligious Insight a Journal of Dialogue and Engagement [published by World Congress of Faiths Common Engagement Project], 6(4) (October, 2008) 56-59. Available online at

“A Select Guide to Indological Periodical Literature: Buddhism: Gomes, Jacquetta -The development and use of the Eight Precepts for lay practitioners, Upasakas and Upasikas in Theravada Buddhism in the West”, Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 5(1) (May, 2004)”, MLBD [Motilal Banarsidass] Newsletter: A Monthly Indological Bibliography English & Hindi, 27(6), (June, 2005) 15. (ISSN 0970-1535)

“The Significance of the Vitakkasanthana Sutta (MN 20) (The Removal of Distracting Thoughts”, Upasaka Dhammika (Duncan Fisher), Ketumati Buddhist Vihara (Manchester) Newsletter, 1 (2006) 7. Available on line at      Click on Press Room

“Theravada Buddhist Precepts taken by Attendees of Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada)”,Lotus: the Lay Review and Newsletter of the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara, Issue 28 (Spring, 2009) 5.

Available online at

“World’s first for lady Buddhist”, The Citizen South Lakes and North Lancs, (22 July 2015) page 5. http

Books

1993 Buddhism: Lectures and Essays. Venerable Dr Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera Aggamaha Pandita DLitt DLitt. Sri Lanka, Colombo, Samayawardhana, 1993. (ISBN 955-570-038-9) (Chapter 7 Family Life (A talk given at an English Buddhist girl’s wedding…) is the talk given by Venerable Dr Balangoda Ananda Maitreya at the wedding blessing of Titus and Jacquetta Gomes at the London Buddhist Vihara.)

2006 Requirements and Ceremonies for The Five Precepts (Panca Sila), The Eight Precepts with Right Livelihood as the Eighth (Ajivatthamaka Sila), Dhamma Teachers Certificate, issued by the Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) and Ketumati Buddhist Vihara at Wesak 2006)

Google Books Partner Programme

Google Books Partner Programme has included Requirements and Ceremonies… on their website. This is available to read and for free download as a pdf.

For 2004 Kendal edition: Search for Introducing Buddhism Jacquetta Gomes Buddhist Group Kendal

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