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An Essential Spiritual Education (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 13 Jun, 2024 - 11:00

Sangharakshita revisits his time as a wandering ‘Dharma Farer’ in the India of the 1940s. The occasion for this colourful set of stories and related insights is the 60th anniversary of his decision to ‘Go Forth’ into the homeless life, in line with the oldest Buddhist traditions. Sangharakshita is in fine, thoughtful, at times even mischievous form as he heads into his 83rd year, and, as usual, is uncompromising in his vision of the spiritual life as...

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Urgyen House: William Blake

By Centre Team on Tue, 28 May, 2024 - 16:30

Urgyen House: William Blake

By Centre Team on Tue, 28 May, 2024 - 16:30

William Blake had a profound and life-long influence on Sangharakshita’s thinking and imagination.

Our latest video, presented by Paramartha with contributions from Satyalila and Ratnaprabha, explores William Blake’s significance both for Sangharakshita personally and for the movement he founded.

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Becoming a Buddha (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 May, 2024 - 11:00

Sangharakshita tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, up to the time of his Enlightenment, drawing out the significance of some of the key events. Here we encounter the Buddha receiving help on the path to Enlightenment. Excerpted from the talk The Way to Enlightenment given in 1972.

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Who is the Buddha? (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 4 May, 2024 - 11:00

After an account of the Buddha’s life, Sangharakshita asks how, if at all, such a man can be defined or categorised. This talk was given in 1968 as part of the series Introducing the Three Jewels of Buddhism

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Bhante, His "Gurus" and Us (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 Apr, 2024 - 11:00

Kalyanaprabha shares some of her own recollections of Bhante Sangharakshita going back to their first encounter in 1984, stories both humorous and serious, evoking some of his unique qualities. Drawing on an unpublished fragment, ‘What I learned from my gurus’, she reminds us of some of the fundamental aspects of his teaching. This talk was given as part of a series entitled Triratna Day Weekend: Is a Guru Necessary? Given at ...

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Is A Guru Necessary (Revisited) (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 20 Apr, 2024 - 11:00

Ksantikara revisits Sangharakshita’s classic 1970 lecture. In this energetic and playful talk Ksantikara adds his own reflections to Sangharakshita’s original list of what a Guru is not (not the head of a religious group, not a teacher, not a father/mother substitute, not a problem solver) and explores the important of having people in our life to look up to and be in contact with. Ksantikara implores us to find a situation of Kalayana Mitrata (beautiful friendship) and...

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Being Taken Seriously By My Teacher (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 15 Apr, 2024 - 11:00

Excerpted from the talk Bhante - Teacher and Friend by Dhammadinna, first in a symposium of talks about Sangharakshita given at the UK and Ireland Area Order weekend at Adhisthana, 2013.

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Exploring the Teachings for Ourselves (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 11 Apr, 2024 - 11:00

As part of celebrations at Sangha Night to mark the 90th birthday of Sangharakshita, Ratnaghosha gives a personal talk on the influence of Bhante as a teacher. Excerpted from the talk Bhante As Teacher given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Launch of The Buddhist Vision and the Dhammapada (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 9 Apr, 2024 - 10:45

Here is a recently re-discovered little lost delight - Sangharakshita and Subhuti launching each other’s books and clearly enjoying themselves. Sangharakshita’s in fine humour - and it’s great to hear him read and quote from the bible! Is that a twinkle in his voice?

Talk given at Triratna [FWBO] Day celebrations in 2001.

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Chair's Letter – March 2024

By ratnadharini on Sun, 31 Mar, 2024 - 20:00

Chair's Letter – March 2024

By ratnadharini on Sun, 31 Mar, 2024 - 20:00

Correction:

In my March letter from the College, I wrote that ‘My Relation to the Order was the second in what Bhante intended to be a series of three reflections, the first being The History of My Going for Refuge… the third … being completed by Subhuti as Extending the Hand of Fellowship.’ Kalyanaprabha has pointed out to me that this is inaccurate, as all three texts were originally written by Bhante as papers and were delivered to the gathered Order...

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