Tag: Sangharakshita

Sangharakshita launches new book

By lokabandhu on Sat, 3 Dec, 2011 - 05:40Jnanarakshita writes from Birmingham UK with news of the launch of Sangharakshita’s latest book, ‘Dear Dinoo: Letters to a Friend’. It’s on Saturday 10th December at 3pm, for a 3.30pm start at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre.

Kalyanaprabha, the book’s editor, will also be present, and she gives us some more details, saying “Dear Dinoo: Letters to a Friend brings together some twenty-nine letters written by Sangharakshita to a friend in Bombay over a period of nearly...

New publication from Sangharakshita: Dear Dinoo: Letters to a Friend

By lokabandhu on Fri, 11 Nov, 2011 - 05:32Kalyanaprabha writes from Birmingham with the announcement a new book by Sangharakshita has just been published She says -

“A new publication from Sangharakshita is now available! Dear Dinoo: Letters to a Friend brings together some twenty-nine letters written by Sangharakshita to a friend in Bombay over a period of nearly twenty years. To order directly click here.

In the course of the correspondence, Sangharakshita writes of his stay with the fascinating Dr Mehta (who believed...

From the Archives - ‘On Glastonbury Tor’

By lokabandhu on Sun, 25 Sep, 2011 - 06:22Recently discovered in the archives of Triratna’s Order Library, at Madhyamaloka in Birmingham, are a number of copies of Sangharakshita’s long poem, ‘On Glastonbury Tor’. This is a long and vivid poem by the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order, describing a visit he made to the Tor one night, with friends, in 1970, soon after his founding of the FWBO (Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) – and the unusual events that then transpired.

The...

Sangharakshita celebrates 86th birthday, marked by construction work starting in India

By lokabandhu on Fri, 26 Aug, 2011 - 03:32Today sees Sangharakshita’s 86th birthday and while he marks it quietly at home in Birmingham UK, a major new project gets underway at Triratna’s vibrant Amaravati centre in central India.

Amitayus, their Project Manager, writes to say:

“Dear Triratna News, I hope today brings you and all your readers great happiness and pleasure on this day Bhante’s 86th Birthday. Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha Amravati is celebrating this day by performing a long puja in the morning and also...