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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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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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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

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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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

The Tension Between the Practical and Academic Approach to Buddhism

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 - 21:39

The Tension Between the Practical and Academic Approach to Buddhism

By Centre Team on Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 - 21:39

🖥️ WATCH THE TENSION BETWEEN THE PRACTICAL AND ACADEMIC APPROACH TO BUDDHISM

The Triratna Video Library is back celebrating Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with another freshly edited never-before-seen talk by Bhante from the archive. This month’s rich and rewarding talk was given at the Kraków, Poland in 2002.

With a keen appreciation of his audience at the Kraków University Institute for Religious Studies, Poland, Sangharakshita presents a rich survey of the...

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Entering the Sangha

By Candradasa on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:38

Entering the Sangha

By Candradasa on Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 - 02:38

The Triratna Video Library is back celebrating Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with another freshly edited never-before-seen talk by Bhante from the archive. This month join Sangharakshita in a Buddhafield Festival tent for his talk ‘Entering The Sangha’.

In the summer of 2007, Sangharakshita visited the Triratna project known as ‘Buddhafield’, during which he offered this talk.

He considers the Buddha’s explanation of his Dharma-Vinaya with particular reference to his teaching on freedom. Looking both to his experiences in the West and India, he describes...

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Recordings of the Celebration of 100 Years Of Sangharakshita

By dayaketu on Mon, 1 Sep, 2025 - 16:51

Recordings of the Celebration of 100 Years Of Sangharakshita

By dayaketu on Mon, 1 Sep, 2025 - 16:51

Celebrating 100 Years of Sangharakshita

Watch the recordings of the big centenary retreat at Adhisthana when we celebrated and reflected on the life of our teacher and founder on his 100th Birthday. A mix of special online-only events and opportunities to practise as part of this great gathering of Triratna friends!

Watch the recordings of the centenary celebrations here

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Gifts from my Teachers (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 30 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

A personal talk about gifts and teachings that Satyaraja has received from his Teachers, from the first retreat with S. N. Goenka in India early 1970’s, to his first contact with Triratna and meeting Bhante Sangharakshita a few years later, to several very significant meetings with Bhante, and concluding with what his two kalyana mitras, Kamalashila and Padmavajra, have given and what they mean to him. Given at Stockholm Buddhist Center, 2025.
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The Boy, The Monk, The Man (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

Nagabodhi’s book : The Boy, the Monk, the Man examines the life of Sangharakshita - audacious reformer, and for some a deeply controversial figure. In an absorbing narrative, Nagabodhi takes us on a journey through the twists and turns of Sangharakshita’s life; the experiences, insights, and reflections that nurtured his approach as a teacher; and the legacy he left behind. Here, Padmasuri interviews Nagabodhi - two long time friends in conversation and exploration. Recorded at ...

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Taking Darshan (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

By Centre Team on Mon, 11 Aug, 2025 - 12:20

Urgyen Sangharakshita - Bhante - who died last year, is not only the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, but also teacher and spiritual friend to Padmavajra. Padmavajra first met him when he was 17 and in this talk he shares some of his own most cherished memories of Bhante, including his experiences of being with him in India when he returned there in the 1970’s to found the Order there. Excerpted from the talk...

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Bodhisattvas and Buddhas (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 11 Aug, 2025 - 10:48

Aryajaya explores Sangharakshita’s relationship to his teachers, who form the lineage for the Triratna Buddhist Order. A lovely exploration of the experience of relationship to the Bodhisattvas of Buddhist tradition via meditations passed from teacher to disciple, evoking a wide open sense of connection to the great beauty they represent. Excerpted from the talk Sangharakshita’s First Connection with His Teachers and Receiving Practices given as part of the series Themes from...

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