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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Great Ocean (Part 2): Affinity

By Candradasa on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 21:58

Great Ocean (Part 2): Affinity

By Candradasa on Mon, 23 Jun, 2025 - 21:58

Arriving back in England Sangharakshita formed a friendship with Terry Delamare, who worked in advertising. Their brief but devoted companionship was an antidote to the mid 60s world of British Buddhism and they shared a love of travel. After its partial decriminalisation Sangharakshita embarked on a couple of homosexual relationships.

The film covered Bhante’s return to England and the founding of the Order. I thought it was a brilliant piece of work covering some painful and sensitive topics in an informative, helpful

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The Lion’s Roar of Sangharakshita (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

Referencing Sangharakshita’s teaching on personal responsibility, Khemasuri shows how, through self-development and sangha, we can make a radical difference in the world. This talk was part of a two talk series entitled The Lion’s Roar by Shakyapada and Khemasuri given at Triratna Buddhist Community York, 2019.

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Great Ocean (Part 1): Memories of the Road

By Candradasa on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 21:36

Great Ocean (Part 1): Memories of the Road

By Candradasa on Fri, 6 Jun, 2025 - 21:36

I started Great Ocean by writing to and later meeting Sangharakshita in June 2018. My idea was a film to explore a range of friendships in his life and he was quick to name two very important ones: Buddharakshita and Terry Delamare.

In this first part, we meet Buddharakshita, Sangharakshita’s companion in the holy life who facilitated the transition to living in India. A first person account taken from several memoirs vividly brought to life with found footage.

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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....

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Equally Love All Beings (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 28 Apr, 2025 - 11:00

Parami explores themes of friendship through poems by Robert Burns and quotes from Sangharakshita and from the Pali Canon. Excerpted from the talk Burns, Bhante and the Buddha: Themes of Friendship and Solidarity given at Glasgow Buddhist Centre as part of the series Burns, Bhante and the Buddha, 2024.

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Acceptance of the Whole Buddhist Tradition (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 14 Apr, 2025 - 10:44

Vishvapani’s usual good-natured and reflective approach is just the thing to start us off as he looks at how Sangharakshita’s initiative in founding the FWBO might be viewed in terms of the unity of Buddhism.

Excerpted from the talk Three Jewels Buddhism - Finding the Heart of the Dharma Traditions given at the Triratna Buddhist Order Weekend, Wymondham College, March 2008.

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We Are Just Buddhists - An Ecumenical Approach (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 8 Apr, 2025 - 11:28

In his first public appearance since his eyesight began to deteriorate, Sangharakshita begins this new talk with reflections on his blindness, displaying remarkable equanimity and humour in the process. His main subjects, however, are six particular aspects of Buddhist life and practice which are given distinctive emphasis in the spiritual movement he has founded. Here, he defines the ecumenical approach to Buddhism that our practicing spiritual community takes. Excerpted from the talk The Six...

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No Protection Needed (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 14:44

Buddhism is sometimes seen as weak or negative. Using examples from the Pali Canon and Mahayana texts, this lecture shows that, on the contrary, heroic and positive qualities are essential in the Buddhist spiritual aspirant’s quest for Enlightenment. Here, Sangharakshita tells the story of Devadatta who was trying to kill the Buddha. Excerpted from the talk The Heroic Ideal in Buddhism given in 1969.

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Buddhavagga (from the Dhammapada)

By Centre Team on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 13:07

Beautifully read by Sangharakshita, these readings are taken from the oldest scriptural texts and evoke the real spirit of early Buddhism - the struggles, the joys and the triumphs of ordinary people who followed the path to Truth. Appears in Readings from the Pali Canon recorded in 2000 to mark the Digital Legacy project to begin transferring Dharmachakra’s archive to digital format!

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