Tag: Sangharakshita

The True Miracle

By dayaketu on Thu, 1 May, 2025 - 18:45

The True Miracle

By dayaketu on Thu, 1 May, 2025 - 18:45

The new video release now live on the Triratna Video Library

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. The release for May is a talk entitled ‘The True Miracle’.

This talk was given to the Berlin Triratna (FWBO) sangha in 1999. Sangharakshita recounts a particular spectacular miracle performed by the Buddha known as the ‘yamaka pātihāriya’, after which the Buddha went on to explain what is actually the greatest of all miracles....

Windhorse Publications

Classic Sangharakshita’ series

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 18 Mar, 2025 - 15:48

Classic Sangharakshita’ series

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 18 Mar, 2025 - 15:48

We are delighted to announce the release of a brand new edition of Living with Awareness, Sangharakshita’s well-loved exposition on the Satipatthana Sutta.

This new edition, available in paperback and eBook formats, uses text updated during the Complete Works of Sangharakshita project, and is the first in a new ‘Classic Sangharakshita’ series launching this year to mark the centenary of the author’s birth.

In Living with Awareness Sangharakshita outlines the transformative power of mindfulness communicated in the Satipatthana Sutta, linking it to the Four...

Community Highlights

The Relation Between Buddhism and Art

By Centre Team on Mon, 3 Mar, 2025 - 12:11

The Relation Between Buddhism and Art

By Centre Team on Mon, 3 Mar, 2025 - 12:11

The new video release now live on the Triratna Video Library

The Urgyen Sangharakshita Trust’s third monthly contribution to Sangharakshita 100 is another video in the ‘Unseen Sangharakshita’ series now live on trirtanvideolibrary.org.

This talk is called ‘The Relation Between Buddhism and Art’.

For his first talk in Kraków, Poland, Sangharakshita chose to explore the relationship between Buddhism and art. The lecture was held at a centre for Japanese Culture and so Sangharakshita first spoke of his youthful encounters with the...

Triratna News

Sangharakshita 100: A Garland of Rejoicings 💐

By Jnanadhara on Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 - 20:56

Sangharakshita 100: A Garland of Rejoicings 💐

By Jnanadhara on Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 - 20:56

The Triratna Buddhist Community was founded by Urgyen Sangharakshita and 2025 marks the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. For this special anniversary year our online celebration of Triratna Day will be a rejoicing in his life and qualities.

In each of the three sessions we will hear from three Order members - from different generations and parts of the world - about life changing encounters they had with Sangharakshita and the qualities that were communicated through those encounters.

Speakers include: Akasaka (UK/Finland),...

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Unseen Sangharakshita

By Centre Team on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 13:33

Unseen Sangharakshita

By Centre Team on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 13:33

Sangharakshita 100 events continue with the next ‘Unseen Sangharakshita’ video.

This time it’s a talk entitled ‘Wesak and After’ which you can now watch on the Triratna Video Library

In May 1992 Bhante Sangharakshita was invited to speak at a UK Western region Wesak festival gathering. He reminisces about his first Wesak celebration in 1949 and highlights the importance of understanding the significance of Wesak and the Buddha’s Enlightenment, asking the question ‘What is Enlightenment?’

He recounts a recent...

College of Public Preceptors

Urgyen Sangharakshita at 100

By Mahamati on Sat, 4 Jan, 2025 - 15:40

Urgyen Sangharakshita at 100

By Mahamati on Sat, 4 Jan, 2025 - 15:40

Dear friends of Triratna worldwide,

I am happy to write to you all at the start of the Birth Centenary Year of our precious teacher Urgyen Sangharakshita.

This is not only about looking back, so as to better understand and appreciate our founder and teacher, important though this is; it is also a special opportunity to look forward and put in place the best conditions for the unfolding of Bhante’s presentation of the Dharma in...

Windhorse Publications

Celebrating the Completion of the Complete Works

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 27 Nov, 2024 - 18:00

Celebrating the Completion of the Complete Works

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 27 Nov, 2024 - 18:00

The following excerpt is taken from a blog post by Dhivan, a Pali Scholar and Chair of Trustees of Windhorse Publications. You can find the whole article on our website.

The last three volumes of Sangharakshita’s Complete Works are being dispatched to subscribers worldwide – marking the culmination of a monumental publishing journey. Over 27 volumes, averaging 750 pages each, this project encompasses an extraordinary 20,000 pages and 10 million words. It stands as the most
...

College of Public Preceptors

Chair's Letter – October

By ratnadharini on Fri, 1 Nov, 2024 - 01:00

Chair's Letter – October

By ratnadharini on Fri, 1 Nov, 2024 - 01:00

Dear Order Members and Friends,

This is the last update that I’ll be writing as Chair of the College of Public Preceptors so I’ll begin by writing about this current month and then go on say something about the last five years more generally.

Last month I wrote about my three weeks in New Zealand which was the first half of my trip to the other side of the world; my three weeks in...

Community Highlights

Triratna Video Library releases a new Sangharakshita video

By Centre Team on Wed, 30 Oct, 2024 - 11:00

Triratna Video Library releases a new Sangharakshita video

By Centre Team on Wed, 30 Oct, 2024 - 11:00

For the sixth death anniversary of Bhante Sangharakshita we have delved into the Triratna Video Library archives and edited a 14 minute video.

In this previously unseen footage you will find Bhante giving a masterclass in how to launch a book as he launches the third edition of Subhuti’s ‘The Buddhist Vision’. Recorded in Birmingham on FWBO Day in 2001. With a light, even playful, touch, he remembers the Movement’s beginnings in Monmouth Street before turning to a ‘momentous event’ in 1985....

Tag: Sangharakshita

Pages