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Celebrating friendship with discounted books

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 26 Jul, 2023 - 15:00

Celebrating friendship with discounted books

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 26 Jul, 2023 - 15:00

Our teacher, Sangharakshita, described the order he founded as ‘a network of friendships’, and I’ve come back from the retreat with a renewed sense of gratitude for the many and varied friendships in my life, particularly my friendships with other ‘Dharma farers’. A focus on this type of friendship, what Sangharakshita called ‘spiritual friendship’, is one of the six distinctive emphases that Sangharakshita gave the Triratna Buddhist Community. 

Sangharakshita didn’t emphasise the importance of friendship just because of his own personal inclination....

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Flash sale of Bhikkhu Anālayo's books

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 1 Feb, 2023 - 10:00

Flash sale of Bhikkhu Anālayo's books

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 1 Feb, 2023 - 10:00

In this blog post, we’re focusing on the books of scholar-monk Bhikkhu Anālayo. Windhorse Publications published his first book on Satipaṭṭhāna nearly twenty years ago. Since then, we’ve published many of his classic practice-based translations, interpretations, and applications of early Buddhist suttas on mindfulness, compassion, and emptiness. He has revived the study of Early Buddhism with his scholarship, and led many practice retreats around the world.

If you’ve ever read one of Bhikkhu Anālayo’s books, you’ll know that they can bring inspiration,...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

New podcast episode and winter sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 23 Nov, 2022 - 11:00

New podcast episode and winter sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 23 Nov, 2022 - 11:00

In this blog post we’re pleased to announce our latest podcast episode and our Winter Sale, in which we’re offering 40% off selected books for three days only.

New podcast episode with Satyadasa

In our latest podcast episode, Dhammamegha talks with Satyadasa about his wonderful memoir The Sound of One Hand, which is a tender account of one person’s ‘Dharma life’. What does it look like to live a contemporary Buddhist life, with a strong response to the Buddha’s teachings, as well as ambition,...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Windhorse Publications' biggest sale yet!

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 27 Apr, 2022 - 10:00

Windhorse Publications' biggest sale yet!

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 27 Apr, 2022 - 10:00

We’re thrilled to announce our Spring Sale. With 40% off more than 30 titles, there’s something for everyone. But hurry — the sale ends at 23:59 BST on Monday, 2nd May.

Browse the sale

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Windhorse Publications

Our biggest-ever Winter Sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 30 Nov, 2021 - 09:00

Our biggest-ever Winter Sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 30 Nov, 2021 - 09:00

As we move towards the turning of the year and the northern hemisphere winter, there is time for connection, reflection and a re-evaluation of what is important in life. The Dharma – the teachings of the Buddha – can offer so much to the pursuit of a meaningful, skilful and vivid life.

In this year’s Winter Sale – our biggest yet – we’re offering books that will help you bring depth to your life, learn to work with your mind, and become...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

25% off selected paperbacks for Sangha Day

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 15 Nov, 2021 - 11:55

25% off selected paperbacks for Sangha Day

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 15 Nov, 2021 - 11:55

As you may know, Sunday 21st November is International Sangha Day. To celebrate, we’re offering 25% off five paperbacks on the themes of friendship, communication and the spiritual community. The discounts will end on 6th December.

What is the Sangha? The Nature of Spiritual Community by Sangharakshita

Was £11.99, Now £8.99

In Buddhism, the sangha is the free association of developing individuals choosing to help each other along the path. In What is the Sangha? Sangharakshita suggests that to explore the nature of spiritual community is also to examine...

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Windhorse Publications

We're offering another free eBook

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

We're offering another free eBook

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Those of you who’ve been enjoying the free eBooks we’ve been giving away since March will be pleased to learn that we’re giving away another one. This time it’s the turn of one of Sangharakshita’s classics, The Bodhisattva Ideal.

How can we be happy and at the same time responsive to the suffering of others? It can be done: this is the message of the bodhisattva ideal. The image of the bodhisattva, one who wishes to gain Enlightenment for the sake...

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Windhorse Publications

This week's free eBook and this month's discounted paperbacks

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 3 Aug, 2020 - 15:03

This week's free eBook and this month's discounted paperbacks

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 3 Aug, 2020 - 15:03

This week we’re giving away the eBook edition of The Yogi’s Joy by Sangharakshita. 

We’re offering The Yogi’s Joy to support the online summer retreat ‘The Fire of Joy’. If you find this book helpful, you could also read the text that came from the rest of Sangharakshita’s Milarepa seminars, published across two volumes of his Complete Works under the title Milarepa and the Art of Discipleship. You can find the first volume here and the second volume here. We’ve created a discount code fireofjoy that you can...

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June book sale at Windhorse Publications

By dhammamegha on Mon, 1 Jun, 2020 - 12:59

June book sale at Windhorse Publications

By dhammamegha on Mon, 1 Jun, 2020 - 12:59

Lockdown rules are changing for some of us. So perhaps there’s not quite so much staying at home involved this month’s Stay at Home Sale. We have chosen a range of books to offer resources and inspiration in this transition time. 
 
To continue the ‘For the Earth’ theme of Buddhist Action Month, we’ve got what I think is the only one of our books to be written by a vet. Bodhipaksa’s Vegetarianism: A Buddhist View, is reduced...

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Windhorse Publications

Pick up a bargain in Windhorse Publications’ new season sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 23 Sep, 2019 - 15:10

Pick up a bargain in Windhorse Publications’ new season sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Mon, 23 Sep, 2019 - 15:10

To celebrate the change of season, Windhorse Publications is offering 50% off selected paperbacks for a limited time. 

Meaning in Life by Sarvananda, was £3.99, now £1.99

A Path for Parents by Karunagita, was £11.99, now £5.99

A Guide to the Deities of the Tantra by Vessantara, was £11.99, now £5.99

The Windhorse Colouring Book by Āloka, was £9.99, now £4.99

Tales of Freedom by Vessantara, was £10.99, now £5.49

Thicker Than Blood by Maitreyabandhu, was £9.99, now £4.99

Vegetarianism by Bodhipaksa, was £6.99, now £3.49

The Poet’s Way by Manjusvara, was £8.99, now £4.49

The Triratna Story by Vajragupta, was £9.99, now £4.99

Click here to buy sale titles.