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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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Three Points of Transition (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:04

In this masterly lecture to an American conference audience, Sangharakshita reminds us of the basic conceptual formulation of the Buddha’s enlightenment experience. The twelve negative and twelve positive nidanas (‘links’) represent two trends - reactive and progressive - within the same conditionality. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Twenty-Four Nidanas given as part of the series Two Lectures to a Conference on the Nature of Reality: Buddhism as Transformation, 1994.

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Sangharakshita's Centenary celebrations in India

By Dayaketu on Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 - 16:35

Sangharakshita's Centenary celebrations in India

By Dayaketu on Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 - 16:35

Triratna India shares a short video from the centenary celebrations for Bhante Sangharakshita. The Sangha expresses gratitude for his founding of the Triratna Buddhist Order, his role in the revival of Buddhism in India, and his wider contribution to the Buddhist movement—internationally and in India—in the spirit of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Dhamma revolution.

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A Golden Thread

By Candradasa on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

A Golden Thread

By Candradasa on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

This is the eleventh talk to be produced and released by the Triratna Video Library this year as the 100th birth anniversary celebrations continue.

Sangharakshita visited the Edinburgh FWBO (Triratna) Buddhist Centre in September 2007 as his book ‘Precious Teachers’ was published. He offered this special talk, in which he chose to focus on his friend and teacher, Dhardo Rinpoche.

He invited the audience to picture the unlikely friendship of two young men, one a Tibetan tulku and the other an English bhikkhu,...

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Conquering Mara (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 - 13:25

The full moon in May is celebrated as the anniversary of the Buddha’s Enlightenment and his victory over the demon Mara. Sangharakshita explains what Mara represents and how he can be overcome. As well as containing much that will fascinate experienced Buddhists, this is also an excellent introductory lecture. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Buddha’s Victory given in 1987.

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