Tag: Sangharakshita

Maintaining Our Vision (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 - 12:58

A fascinating lecture, previously unreleased. It was given on WBO Day on the 20th anniversary of the Order’s foundation and sees Sangharakshita reflecting in an intimate, impromptu mood on impermanence and his own thoughts and hopes for the future. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Next Twenty Years, 1988.

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Steering For the Deep: The Awareness Aspect (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 - 11:00

Vessantara explores Sangharakshita’s idea that fundamentally there is one spiritual experience, which has different aspects that we can unfold. Here he guides on how to contact and influence deeper levels of mind, culminating in the turning about of the basis, the transformation of the deepest level of mind. This talk was given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2016, as part of the series Aspects of Going For Refuge (Remastered).

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The Buddha’s Gift of Communication (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 - 13:00

In this lecture Sangharakshita shows how the symbolism of ritual offerings originated in the Hinayana and Mahayana, and later flowered with the Tantric offerings, particularly the offering of the Mandala.

Excerpted from the talk entitled The Symbolism of Offerings and Self-Sacrifice as part of the series Creative Symbols of the Tantric Path to Enlightenment, 1972.

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Connections with the USA

By mokshapriya on Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 - 16:36

Connections with the USA

By mokshapriya on Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 - 16:36

Even whilst living in Kalimpong, India, Sangharakshita developed connections with the United States of America, both literary and Buddhist. Over later decades he made several trips to the USA. In this latest Urgyen House video blog Manjuvajra explores that history and uncovers Sangharakshita’s connections to the Beat poetry movement and the leading Buddhist teachers and writers in the USA. Apart from his literary appreciation, as he travelled to support the growing Triratna movement he also enjoyed taking photographs...

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Going for Refuge to the Buddha (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 3 Mar, 2026 - 13:43

After an account of the Buddha’s life, Sangharakshita asks how, if at all, such a man can be defined or categorised. Excerpted from the talk entitled Who is the Buddha? given as part of the series Introducing the Three Jewels of Buddhism, 1968.

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Bryt vanmakten – bygg gemenskap!

By Viryabodhi on Fri, 6 Feb, 2026 - 09:58

Tema: Bryt vanmakten – bygg gemenskap!

Aryaka höll i denna träff. Efter en inledande meditation introducerade Aryaka kvällnes tema. Han utgick fån en text som han har skrivit i samband med en kurs som han har hållit i. (Texten finns bifogat som PDF-dokument.)

Aryaka reflekterade bland annat kring vilka hinder som kan finnas för att engagera sig i klimat-, freds- eller andra sociala rörelser. Trots att det finns en längtan att komma ur vår vanmakt, bryta isoleringen och försöka finna en gemenskap...

File Name	Size
Inbjudan – dikt av Oriah Mountain Dreamer	27.96 KB
Bryt vanmakten – Aryakas anteckningar	120.29 KB

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The Story of Bahiya (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 1 Jan, 2026 - 11:00

Ordinary experience is governed by the endless round of the Wheel of Life, which can be gradually halted by treading the spiral path to Enlightenment until progress becomes irreversible. Excerpted from the talk entitled Stream Entry given by Sangharakshita in 1965 as part of the series The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism.

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Blake, Bhante and the True Individual (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 6 Dec, 2025 - 11:00

How do we listen to the ‘voice within’? How do we become an individual? How can imagination free us? Satyalila weaves together Sangharakshita’s teachings on the True Individual with Blake to show us how to follow our golden thread towards greater clarity, receptivity and awareness. Talk given on a retreat for women who have asked for ordination as part of a series on ‘The Group, the Individual and The Spiritual Community’ given at Tiratanaloka...

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

The final Unseen Sangharakshita video talk has just been released by the Triratna Video Library

Over the past twelve months the Triratna Video Library has celebrated Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with the video releases of twelve talks by Sangharakshita which have never edited or seen. Each talk has been presented with English subtitles and some with additional Spanish subtitles. These talks covering various topics, locations and years have hopefully enriched your connection with, and appreciation of, Bhante as well as...

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Everyone Needs the Dharma - Milarepa’s Song (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

By Centre Team on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 13:32

Here, Sangharakshita emphasises the importance of distinguishing Buddhism as a universally applicable path of development from the specifically Eastern cultural forms it has been associated with in the past, and explains why an authentic, non-sectarian Buddhist movement is needed in the West. Excerpted from the talk entitled Western Buddhists and Eastern Buddhism, part of the series A New Buddhist Movement - the Meaning of the FWBO, 1979.

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