Tag: Sangharakshita

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

Windhorse Publications

Review: Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and His Teachings by Vishvapani (2025)

By Luke Penkett on Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 - 10:18

Review: Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and His Teachings by Vishvapani (2025)

By Luke Penkett on Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 - 10:18

With The Complete Works of Sangharakshita being rounded off with the publication of its Concordance at the end of 2024, Vishvapani’s
Reimagining Buddhism seems like the icing on the cake. It is a beautiful book, meticulously researched, and sensitively written for both those who knew Sangharakshita well and others who have only recently come across his name, or have yet to discover the joys of Triratna.

Vishvapani (Blomfield) is the editor of Challenging Times: Stories of Buddhist Practice When Things...

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

My Life and the FWBO

By Centre Team on Thu, 7 Aug, 2025 - 22:09

My Life and the FWBO

By Centre Team on Thu, 7 Aug, 2025 - 22:09

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 August is a talk entitled ‘My Life and the FWBO’.

In 2002 Sangharakshita offered his support to the new FWBO (Triratna) sangha by giving three public talks in Kraków, Poland. In this second talk he recounted his life story from early bed-bound days, discovering Buddhism, army life, travels across India, life in...

Community Highlights

The Sweet Mystery of Friendship

By Candradasa on Wed, 30 Jul, 2025 - 16:43

The Sweet Mystery of Friendship

By Candradasa on Wed, 30 Jul, 2025 - 16:43

What is the connection between the Cistercian Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire and Sangharakshita’s teachings on Spiritual Friendship?

Paramartha explores this question and more in the twenty fourth video blog from Urgyen House. With extracts from Sangharakshita’s talks and objects in Urgyen House he considers why spiritual friendship is one of the six emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community.

The programme is 18 minutes long and English subtitles are available.

🖥️ Watch ‘The Sweet Mystery of Friendship

Buddhist Centre Features

Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

By Candradasa on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

Crossing the Stream: The Life and Legacy of Sangharakshita

By Candradasa on Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 - 14:32

DISCOVERING THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF TRIRATNA’S FOUNDER
SATURDAY 6TH – WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

Get to know the man at the heart of Triratna!

Join us for five days of practice, dialogue, storytelling and contemplation as we explore the life and teachings of Sangharakshita, the founding teacher of the Triratna Buddhist Community. Through talks, meditation and discussion we will trace how one man’s journey—from post-war Britain to...

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