Clear Vision Trust

The Clear Vision Trust is a Buddhist audio-visual media project and a UK registered charity (no. 1019669). We work in a beautiful office at the top of the Manchester Buddhist Centre, UK and see all our efforts as an expression of Right Livelihood, the fifth limb of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path.

Founded in the early 1990s, our purpose was to record the teachings of the Venerable Urgyen Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community.

We maintain the Triratna video and image archives and provide a steady flow of new and archive material for our Buddhist movement worldwide. Outside the Buddhist world, we are very well known for our work for schools and young people.

Our editorial policy
In our work for schools and young people it is Clear Vision policy to represent what is core to most Buddhist traditions, and a range of Buddhist traditions, practices and views. In this we have the specific agreement of Sangharakshita, founder of our own tradition, Triratna.

In the early 1990s Clear Vision began to work on a series of highly acclaimed video packs for Buddhism the Religious Education classroom. Our video-makers joined forces with Padmasri and Adiccabandhu, two very experienced primary school teachers. 1994 saw publication of Buddhism for Key Stage 2 (8-11 years), which remains a best-selling DVD.

Having produced 7 DVD packs for 4-16 year-olds in schools, we've moved into the exciting world of online interactive materials.

Even more significantly, we've begun work to ensure young people at home and temple can enjoy Buddhist teaching materials as good as those in schools.

We have plans for many more educational products like this.
We need your sponsorship!

What is Triratna?
The Sanskrit term triratna means "three jewels" or "triple gem" and refers to the three things at the heart of a Buddhist life: the Buddha, his teachings and the community of Buddhists. (Sometimes "sangha" is used to refer only to monastic Buddhists.)

The Triratna Buddhist Community was founded in London in 1967 as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order/ FWBO). At its heart is the Triratna Buddhist Order (previously the Western Buddhist Order). Neither lay nor monastic, the Order numbers approximately 1600 women and men worldwide, many of them teaching in Buddhist Centres, retreat centres and businesses.

Please support our work with

• young people at school, home and temple
• Buddhists worldwide

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Fancy working at Clear Vision?

Although we currently don't have the financial scope for ambitious expansion, we'd love to hear from you if you'd like to get involved, either as a volunteer, or in some paid capacity.

We'd particularly be interested in someone versatile with skills including business administration, financial management, project management and who makes a good brew!