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Windhorse Publications - Small Buddhist Publishing In A Digital Age

By Candradasa on Thu, 23 Oct, 2014 - 20:41

Publishing in the 21st Century is all about change and adapting to challenging conditions, with lower profits from online sales and increased competition from digital formats. Windhorse Publications, a small independent Buddhist publisher in Cambridge, UK, is meeting the digital challenge of this and share their experience with us in a fascinating discussion that’s relevant to anyone looking to publish books in the age of the Kindle and the iPad…

Support the Windhorse crowd-funding...

Buddhist Centre Features

#EthicalChristmas: Money, Ethics, and Dharma Practice - A New Campaign on The Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Wed, 8 Oct, 2014 - 17:00

#EthicalChristmas: Money, Ethics, and Dharma Practice - A New Campaign on The Buddhist Centre Online

By Candradasa on Wed, 8 Oct, 2014 - 17:00A couple of months ago I was sitting in a room at Adhisthana, listening to my friend Mokshini speak very movingly about some quite profound shifts in her own sense of Dharma practice. She talked about having newly considered in her own life the sorts of issues raised by Triratna’s participation in Buddhist Action Month every year: environmental concerns, economic questions, all manner of socially engaged topics relevant to anyone looking to explore the...

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Sponsor the publication of a Windhorse Dharma book

By Munisha on Fri, 19 Sep, 2014 - 12:57

Sponsor the publication of a Windhorse Dharma book

By Munisha on Fri, 19 Sep, 2014 - 12:57Hannah Atikinson writes from Windhorse Publications:

“We wanted you to know about four exciting new books that we plan to publish in 2015: Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: The Psychology of Buddhist Ethics, Vaddhaka Linn’s The Buddha on Wall Street: What’s Wrong with Capitalism and What We Can Do about It, Maitreyabandhu’s The Journey and the Guide: A Practical Course in Enlightenment, and Anālayo’s Compassion and Emptiness in...

Western Buddhist Review

Valuable New Perspectives on Mindfulness

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 12:15

Valuable New Perspectives on Mindfulness

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 12:15Here is a very thorough and appreciative review of Anālayo’s fine new book concerning mindfulness in early Buddhist teachings.

Anālayo, Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna
Windhorse Publications, Cambridge, 2013, 319pp., £15.99pb, also in ebook format

Review by Dh Ālokadhāra

It is now just over ten years since Windhorse published Anālayo’s book Satipaṭṭhāna: the direct path to realization, described at the time by Christopher Titmus as ‘an indispensable guide… surely destined to become the classic commentary on the...

Triratna News

Vishvapani on air

By Munisha on Mon, 19 May, 2014 - 15:43

Vishvapani on air

By Munisha on Mon, 19 May, 2014 - 15:43You can hear Vishvapani’s Buddha Day/Wesak “Thought for the Day” on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme.
Read the text or listen to the broadcast (2 mins)

He also recently too part in an interview and phone-in on Australian radio, with reference to his book, Gautama Buddha.
Listen to the 30-minute programme.

Triratna News

One hundred awakening women

By Munisha on Mon, 3 Feb, 2014 - 17:08

One hundred awakening women

By Munisha on Mon, 3 Feb, 2014 - 17:08Viveka and Vimalasara, members of the Triratna Buddhist Order in San Francisco and Vancouver respectively, are among 100 contemporary female Buddhist teachers asked to contribute to The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women; a book of 100 stories and koans about women achieving awakening, each accompanied by a reflection by a contemporary woman teacher.

Viveka writes: “The invitation to contribute to The Hidden Lamp brought to mind memories of female hermit meditators, living in...

Triratna News

First Triratna Arts and Culture Catalogue now available

By lokabandhu on Mon, 9 Sep, 2013 - 15:44

First Triratna Arts and Culture Catalogue now available

By lokabandhu on Mon, 9 Sep, 2013 - 15:44Mat New writes from Birmingham with news that Triratna’s first-ever ‘Arts and Culture Catalogue’ is now available online. The Catalogue - first mentioned on Triratna News last month - is dedicated to showcasing the variety and depth of artistic expression across the world-wide Triratna Buddhist Community and Order.

He says - “The Catalogue is an initiative that aims to bring a broad selection of work in all artistic disciplines into contact with the wider Triratna Buddhist movement...

Triratna News

New book by Sangharakshita: Anagarika Dharmapala

By Munisha on Mon, 2 Sep, 2013 - 13:40

New book by Sangharakshita: Anagarika Dharmapala

By Munisha on Mon, 2 Sep, 2013 - 13:40

A new book by Sangharakshita
Anagarika Dharmapala: a Biographical Sketch & Other ‘Maha Bodhi’ Writings

This new book by Sangharakshita was launched at the European Order Weekend held at Wymondham College, Norfolk, UK in July. Kalyanaprabha, who edited the book, gave a warm and inspiring introduction, which you can watch.

Launch copies sold out were sold out within two hours, but you can buy your copy online. Copies...

Triratna News

New book by Sangharakshita - The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation

By lokabandhu on Thu, 6 Dec, 2012 - 09:40

New book by Sangharakshita - The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation

By lokabandhu on Thu, 6 Dec, 2012 - 09:40A major new book by Sangharakshita has just been published, bringing together many of his most significant teachings on meditation. The Purpose and Practice of Buddhist Meditation is a substantial compilation of teachings on meditation and suggestions for its successful practice – some drawn from previously published works, and many extracted from previously unpublished seminar transcripts. They reveal how Sangharakshita learned the practices on which his system of meditation – ‘an organic, living system’ – is based, and...

Triratna News

Manjusiha launches "Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?"

By lokabandhu on Sun, 25 Nov, 2012 - 07:50

Manjusiha launches "Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?"

By lokabandhu on Sun, 25 Nov, 2012 - 07:50Manjusiha writes from the London Buddhist Centre with news of the forthcoming publication of his novel, ‘Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?’, published under his civil name of Simon Okotie. It’s due to be launched on the evening of Saturday 1 December at a special ‘Poetry East’ event - Poetry East being the LBC’s new poetry venue showcasing the work of well-known contemporary poets, exploring the relationship between poetry and spiritual life.

The book’s received...

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