2008 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row
Ghuyaraja
Middle Row
Jesus Marquese - Padmasalin - Suvannagarbha - Carl Edholm
Back Row
Shakyakumara - Sanghanath

2005 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row
Akashadeva - Padmadipa - Shakyakumara - Jayassidhi
Back Row
Jnanasalin - Roger Evans - Steve Pullen - Mark Hemming

On a day out at Wimpole Hall

2004 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row
Shakyakumara - Jayassidhii
Middle Row
Mark Hemming - Kian Mckavoy - Padmadipa - Akashadeva
Back Row
Steve Pullen - Jnanasalin

No19 Community Picnic on Granchester Meadows

2003 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row
Eugen Oehler - Padmasalin
Back Row
Prajnapriya - Padmadipa - Shakayakumara - Vidyavajra - Jnanasalin - Dhiramitra

2002 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L -R
Front Row
Eugen Oehler - Padmasalin
Back Row
Padmadipa -Akasharaja - Dhiramitra - Vidyavajra - Graham Denton - Shakyakumara

Padmadipa in his 'elevated bed'

1999 ARCHIVE - No19 Community Weekend

Some photos of the No19 Newmarket Rd Community on a weekend away in Wells next the Sea in North Norfolk.

1999 ARCHIVE - No 19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row  
Dhiramitra Vasubandhu Jnanarakshita Akasharaja Padmadipa
Back Row
Ruchiravajra Sanghaketu Vajrananda Shakyakumara Abhayassidhi

1998 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row
Saghaketu - Shakyakumara - Abhayassidhi
2nd Row
Ahimsaka - Dhiramitra - Satyaloka
3rd Row
Akasharaja - Jnanarakshita - Nissoka
Back Row
Lalitavajra - Vasubandhu - Arthamitra

Lalitavajra

Shakyakumara & Nissoka

Nissoka

Satyaloka

Vasubandhu

Vidyananda

Sanghaketu

1990's ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Community

L-R
Front Row
Ruben - James Hedges - Satyaloka - Ratnagarbha
Middle Row
Shakyakumara - Ratnadaka - Nissoka - Lalitavajra - Devapalita (Nicholas Kientsch)- Jnanarakshita - Vimladhara
Back Row
Dhiramitra 

Here's an early photo taken in the shared backyard of No 19 Newmarket Rd Community.

It's unclear if this is just the No19 Community with a particularly full house or it includes some of No17 Community. 

2012 ARCHIVE - No19 Newmarket Rd Men's Community

Once you have been working at Windhorse for a few years, you become used to the frequency with which members of a Buddhist Community change. The reasons for leaving are many, most people move to another community, or decide to live on their own, or get married, or leave the business. This is matched by a steady stream of people coming to try out working for Windhorse for varying periods of time from a few days or weeks, from a few months to a number of years. 

This flux of people coming and going in a community is rarely documented photographically. However, these photos have just re-emerged of the Men's Community in No19 Newmarket Road, that span roughly a ten year period, from 1998-2008. You'll notice there are some figures who are presnt over a number of personnel changes,other people leave and then return a number of years later. Some familiar faces all.

No19 Newmarket Road Men's Community

1998 - 2008

Around 1998

1999

2002

2003

2004

2005

Around 2008

2011 ARCHIVE - Windhorse Community Door Project

Over the last few years Windhorse Trust, that looks after our communities, has been in a protracted dialogue with Cambridge City Council about how our communities should be designated. For many decades the Council were relatively happy for our Buddhist Communities to be somewhere between a family style home and a HMO or House of Multiple Occupancy. This meant they were exempt from some of the more stringent regulations regarding HMO's. However the trust was unable, on this ocassion, to convince them that our communities should remain being exempt. This has meant the expensive introduction of a huge number of fire doors, and fulfilling other statutory requirements of being registered as a HMO.

Samata at work in
No 54 Herbert Street Community

The Fire Doors installed in our larger communities are rather dull, and rather blank looking. They introduce an uncharacteristc institutional feel into the atmosphere of what are open, friendly Buddhist Communities. Vidyavajra, with his team of Samata & Pano, started in July this year to prepare,paint and apply panel molding to these doors. Vidyavajra chose a style of decorative panel molding to make them look more aesthetic and in keeping with the style of late Victorian/early Edwardian terraced houses.

For three days every week, for five months the team has been, scraping, sanding, priming, sticking the molding on, more filling, sanding and priming, before final coats of paint were applied. It was a long slow slog to completing all the doors in four communities. Often they have been doing all of this in quite tight working spaces. At the same time trying not to inconvenience the community too much, with paint cans, equipment  and floor sheets etc scattered across landings and alcoves. In total its required the cutting of 468 individually mitred pieces of panel molding.& the painting of 45 doors (31 with Panel Molding - 8 Plain Doors - and 6 Cupboards).  Here are a few photos to give you an idea of what this has involved.

Plain Doors with unpainted architraves
No 54 Herbert Street Community

With painted architraves
No 54 Herbert Street Community

Ist Primer Coat & Panel Molding applied
No 54 Herbert Street Community

Everything Primed & Final Coats
No 54 Herbert Street Community

Finished Doors
No17 Newmarket Road Community