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Sangharakshita Sangharakshita
The Essential Sangharakshita was first published by Wisdom Publications in 2009. It is an anthology, arranged according to the pattern of a mandala, drawn from Sangharakshita's writings in many genres…
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The first of two volumes entitled A New Buddhist Movement, this collection chronicles Sangharakshita's unfolding vision of the Dharma between 1965 and 2009. Underlying all these writings is what Sangharakshita…
A compilation of Sangharakshita’s teachings on meditation, offering practical, inspiring and encouraging advice for new and experienced meditators alike. It is deeply imbued with the Buddhist vision of the role…
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The nine texts in this volume, composed over a period of more than thirty years, show Sangharakshita’s unfolding insight into the meaning, significance and centrality of Going for Refuge. It…
This volume introduces the Complete Works volumes that include Sangharakshita’s commentaries on a range of traditional Buddhist texts, beginning with The Eternal Legacy, an introduction to the canonical literature of…
This illuminating collection of previously unpublished talks traces the development of Sangharakshita’s presentation of the Dharma in the West from 1965 to 2011. Drawing on a wide range of sources…
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Sangharakshita moved to Moseley, Birmingham in 1997. He was in his early 70s and stayed there 16 years. What was it like to be Sangharakshita then? This miscellany of prose…
One of Sangharakshita’s most far-reaching contributions to modern Buddhism was giving shape to the Buddhist conversion movement begun by the great Indian reformer, Dr B.R. Ambedkar. In 1956, along with…
In this first volume of memoirs Sangharakshita describes how, from a working-class childhood in the London suburb of Tooting, he came, a twenty-four-year-old Buddhist novice monk, to Kalimpong in the…
The story of the spiritual journey of the famous Tibetan yogi Milarepa is often told, but less well known are the stories of his encounters with those he met and…
This is the continuing story of Milarepa and his disciple Rechungpa, first encountered in volume 18 of the Complete Works. As portrayed in The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Rechungpa…
This volume of Sangharakshita’s Complete Works includes Facing Mount Kanchenjunga, the second in the series of his memoirs, and, in Dear Dinoo, some very personal letters. Facing Mount Kanchenjunga covers…
In the Sign of the Golden Wheel tells the story of the “middle period’ of the fourteen years Sangharakshita was based in the Indian hill station, Kalimpong. Precious Teachers covers…
Through Buddhist Eyes continues Sangharakshita’s five volumes of memoirs. Covering journeys across five continents and two decades, this volume is made up of nineteen travel letters and one talk. They…
A discussion of the issues raised in the Satipatthana Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation and the importance of mindfulness and awareness in daily life. We can learn to…
Offers a look back over the centuries for guidance from Nagarjuna, one of the greatest teachers of the Mahayana tradition. Drawing on the themes of Nagarjuna’s famous scripture, Precious Garland…
Shows how art, like religion, can challenge our perceptions, our awareness and our experience of truth.
Presents the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. This title offers a poetic representation of a sublime spiritual ideal.
The Sutra of Golden Light has captured imaginations and ignited ideas for centuries but remains as mysterious as it is beautiful. This title shows how this ancient text can help…
‘Going for refuge’ is the act of committing one’s life to Buddhism. This work shows how the monastic life and spiritual life are not identical but that what is truly…
‘The ten pillars of Buddhism’ are ten ethical principles which together provide a comprehensive moral guide. This work highlights the depth of these apparently simple teachings.
How do we live wisely? Sangharakshita outlines how in this companion volume of commentary on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland, showing us how to use our positive ethical position, our momentum in…
The four main works in this volume offer lessons in how to think critically about Mahayana Buddhist teachings, and how to apply them to day-to-day life. They are The Way…
The first part of this volume consists of writings about Anagarika Dharmapala, whom Sangharakshita revered as one of the great Buddhists of the twentieth century. The second part is made…
This volume contains all of Sangharakshita’s poems, offering a truly complete collection, and also includes six short stories, written over many years and some of them previously unpublished, also shedding…
Anagarika Dharmapala, founder of the Maha Bodhi Society, was the first person to take the Dharma to countries across the whole globe. He ranks as one of the greatest Buddhist…
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The pieces collected here were written over a ten year period crucial to the development of Sangharakshita’s thought and expression. From visionary early writings to the later articles leavened by…
This volume contains translations of several Pali suttas, including the Dhammapada, as well as commentaries on the Satipatthana Sutta, the Karaniya Metta Sutta, the Mangala Sutta, and the Tiratana Vandana…
For Buddhists everywhere, the Three Jewels - the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha - are at the heart of daily life and practice. But how can we engage with…
The first part of this volume describes the arising of the bodhicitta and the bodhisattva’s path to Enlightenment in a weaving together of the sublime and the inspiringly practical, and…
In this last volume of memoirs we find Sangharakshita arriving back in England after twenty years in the East. He is expecting to stay no more than a few months…
Il Nobile Ottuplice Sentiero il pi conosciuto degli insegnamenti del Buddha. e antico, poichZ risale al primo discorso del Buddha, ed molto apprezzato come un tesoro unico di sapienza e…
Sangharakshita approaches communicating Buddhism in the West from two very different, but equally illuminating, angles. In the first part, he introduces the apparently exotic worlds of Tibetan Buddhism and its…
Das Buch enthalt 2 Vortrage des Autors, die er 1984 anlasslich eines 3-monatigen Ordinationsretreats vor Mitgliedern der Triratna-Gemeinschaft (damals: FWBO) zur Aufnahme in den buddhistischen Orden Triratna (damals WBO) hielt…
This companion to volume 9 continues the story of Dr B.R. Ambedkar and his role in the revival of Buddhism in India. It includes, amongst other things, articles on the…
This collection of Sangharakshita’s early essays contains the previously published collections ‘Crossing the Stream’ and ‘Early Writings,’ plus other articles long since out of print. The insights and ideas expressed…
Robert M Ellis
This book surveys Sangharakshita’s most important and original ideas with an eye that combines appreciation and critical awareness in equal measure. It celebrates Sangharakshita’s pioneering syntheses of Buddhist and Western…
Nagabodhi
A page-turning biography of Sangharakshita, the controversial British Buddhist teacher. In the late 1960s Sangharakshita founded the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community - now a worldwide Buddhist movement. Nagabodhi gives…
In this highly readable handbook on the fundamental teachings of Buddhism, Sangharakshita guides the reader through this sometimes complex religion.
Bikshu Sangharakshita
