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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Unseen Sangharakshita

By Centre Team on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 13:33

Unseen Sangharakshita

By Centre Team on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 13:33

Sangharakshita 100 events continue with the next ‘Unseen Sangharakshita’ video.

This time it’s a talk entitled ‘Wesak and After’ which you can now watch on the Triratna Video Library

In May 1992 Bhante Sangharakshita was invited to speak at a UK Western region Wesak festival gathering. He reminisces about his first Wesak celebration in 1949 and highlights the importance of understanding the significance of Wesak and the Buddha’s Enlightenment, asking the question ‘What is Enlightenment?’

He recounts a recent...
Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Triratna Video Library releases a new Sangharakshita video

By Centre Team on Wed, 30 Oct, 2024 - 11:00

Triratna Video Library releases a new Sangharakshita video

By Centre Team on Wed, 30 Oct, 2024 - 11:00

For the sixth death anniversary of Bhante Sangharakshita we have delved into the Triratna Video Library archives and edited a 14 minute video.

In this previously unseen footage you will find Bhante giving a masterclass in how to launch a book as he launches the third edition of Subhuti’s ‘The Buddhist Vision’. Recorded in Birmingham on FWBO Day in 2001. With a light, even playful, touch, he remembers the Movement’s beginnings in Monmouth Street before turning to a ‘momentous event’ in 1985....
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Remastering Sangarakshita's talks

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 26 Aug, 2024 - 20:24

Remastering Sangarakshita's talks

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 26 Aug, 2024 - 20:24

On 26th August, 99 years ago, Urgyen Sangharakshita was born and at Free Buddhist Audio we have an extensive collection of his lectures given in his 40+ years of public teaching.

We are getting ready to celebrate his centenary next year by remastering his talks for audiences new and old! Using various remastering tools, we share these previews of a remastered talk. You can listen to the original and remastered preview of this famous talk “Who is the Buddha?”, which...
Adhisthana
Adhisthana

A Second Renaissance? Part 2

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 20 Nov, 2023 - 10:30

A Second Renaissance? Part 2

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 20 Nov, 2023 - 10:30

How are you reading this?

Forgive me for being so forward. Of course, you haven’t really got going yet. It’s probably too open a question anyway: the how of reading could mean lots of different things. First, there’s the medium – are you on your phone, a tablet, a laptop or desktop (though of course you might have printed this out, or be asking a text-to-voice AI to read it to you)? Then there’s the speed – are you scanning, skimming,...
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabytes: Psychological Types from the East

By Centre Team on Thu, 21 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Dharmabytes: Psychological Types from the East

By Centre Team on Thu, 21 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Knowing yourself is an important step in self-development. Here, Sangharakshita describes the three psychological types enumerated in Buddhagosha’s Visuddhimagga, the Path of Purification. From the lecture entitled The Question of Psychological Types which introduces a number of Western and Eastern classifications of psychological types and discusses their implications in the choice of techniques of self-development. Talk given...
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Breaking the Fetter of Superficiality

By Centre Team on Sat, 16 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Breaking the Fetter of Superficiality

By Centre Team on Sat, 16 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Superficiality is acting from the surface of ourselves without thoroughness or care. We act from the intellect but not from our emotional depths. In this talk Akashamitra looks at how superficiality arises from an internally divided state of mind. He points the way to a more wholesome practise of the Dharma through a focus on personal transformation as the...
College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Letter from the College – June

By ratnadharini on Fri, 30 Jun, 2023 - 15:42
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Letter from the College – June

By ratnadharini on Fri, 30 Jun, 2023 - 15:42

Dear Order members and friends,

My experience this month has been dominated by preparing for, and enacting, a 150 mile pilgrimage from where Sangharakshita was born in Tooting, London, on 26th August 1925, to Adhisthana, Herefordshire, where he lived the last – and some of the happiest – years of his life, dying on 30th October 2018. Having had the inspiration for the pilgrimage, I realised I could share the experience with others and open it up as a fundraising initiative...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

A Pilgrimage from Tooting to Adhisthana

By Centre Team on Mon, 5 Jun, 2023 - 15:49

A Pilgrimage from Tooting to Adhisthana

By Centre Team on Mon, 5 Jun, 2023 - 15:49

Special event for Tiratanaloka Unlimited

Click + follow above for regular updates! June 12-22

Ratnadharini is walking 150 miles over 10 days, from Sangharakshita’s birthplace in London, to Adhisthana – where he died. Setting off from Tooting on 12th June, and arriving at Adhisthana on the 22nd, to raise money for Tiratnaloka [UN]LIMITED… Just in time to catch the pilgrims week and 108-hour circumambulation of his burial mound. She’ll be travelling as light as possible, but...
Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Join Windhorse Publications’ Upcoming Online Book Launch

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 - 12:40

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    The Boy, The Monk, The Man - Book Launch

Join Windhorse Publications’ Upcoming Online Book Launch

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 - 12:40

Join Windhorse Publications for the online book launch of Nagabodhi’s page-turning biography, Sangharakshita: The Boy, the Monk, the Man. In it, Nagabodhi gives a vivid account of Sangharakshita’s life, what it was like to live among his committed followers, and the controversies he left behind.

The book launch will take place from 19:00 to 20:30 GMT on Wednesday 1st March, when Nagabodhi will be in conversation with Saddhanandi. Nagabodhi has a reputation...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

The Organic Core of Sangharakshita's Teaching by Vishvapani

By Centre Team on Mon, 31 Oct, 2022 - 18:28

The Organic Core of Sangharakshita's Teaching by Vishvapani

By Centre Team on Mon, 31 Oct, 2022 - 18:28

Vishvapani has been studying, reflecting upon, and living out the Dharma life as presented by Urgyen Sangharakshita, Triratna’s founding teacher, for over 40 years. To mark the fourth anniversary of “Bhante” Sangharakshita’s death in 2018, this new talk delves deep into the heart of what Vishvapani calls a “unique and strange” intuitive approach to Buddhism that, at its best, seems to capture and...

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