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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...

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📘 Just Released: Reimagining Buddhism by Vishvapani

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

📘 Just Released: Reimagining Buddhism by Vishvapani

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

We’re delighted to announce the publication of Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and this Teachings, a timely new book by Vishvapani. The book’s release coincides with the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Sangharakshita (born 26 August 1925), founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order.

Reimagining Buddhism is an in-depth exploration of Sangharakshita (1925-2018), a significant figure in modern Buddhism who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhism to the West and reviving it in India.

The book provides a comprehensive account of his understanding of...

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The Heart of Imagination: Home Retreat

By Centre Team on Wed, 17 Apr, 2024 - 11:04

The Heart of Imagination: Home Retreat

By Centre Team on Wed, 17 Apr, 2024 - 11:04

A home retreat to inspire and enrich your imagination

Led by Vishvapani and Amitajyoti

Friday Sept 13 to Thurs Sept 19

“The mind, freed from the pressure of the will, is...

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FBA Podcast: A Deeper Rhythm

By Centre Team on Sat, 28 Oct, 2023 - 11:00

Vishvapani explores the dynamic vision of Urgyen Sangharakshita in setting up a new Buddhist movement in the West, and asks how we might relate to him now. His central reference point in this provocative and moving talk is the Padmasambhava Abisheka - the initiation received by Sangharakshita in Kalimpong, India, in 1962 from the great Tibetan Lama, Kachu Rimpoche. The energy emanating from a simple shrine room–location of that significant meeting in Sangharakshita’s life–reverberates through everything that came...

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Mindfulness and Imagination

By Centre Team on Sat, 5 Aug, 2023 - 15:15

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see the world as it really is – infinite.” William Blake

If you enjoy this conversation, come explore the theme online on our Home Retreat with Vishvapani and Vidyamala! Join Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination, September 1-7

This week we’re opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything that’s going on in the world around us. What would it be like...

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Writing about Sangharakshita, by Vishvapani

By Oliviahinde on Mon, 1 May, 2023 - 10:30

Writing about Sangharakshita, by Vishvapani

By Oliviahinde on Mon, 1 May, 2023 - 10:30

Over the last few years I’ve been rereading and writing about Sangharakshita. I started thinking I had something to say about him that would integrate criticisms with appreciation and might be helpful to others in Triratna. But the more I tried to identify what I wanted to say, the deeper I found myself travelling into his writing and his life. I realised that, even though I have been absorbing Sangharakshita’s teachings for four decades and lived with him for six...

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Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani

By dayaketu on Thu, 20 Apr, 2023 - 00:10

Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani

By dayaketu on Thu, 20 Apr, 2023 - 00:10

Seven days of meditation, creativity and ritual in a spirit of mindfulness and inquiry.

Led by Vishvapani and Vidyamala

Reserve your space!

Friday September 1 -...

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FBA Podcast: A Deeper Rhythm

By Zac on Sat, 7 Jan, 2023 - 06:00

Vishvapani explores the dynamic vision of Urgyen Sangharakshita in setting up a new Buddhist movement in the West, and asks how we might relate to him now. Voices and stories, told and untold, come echoing through as Vishvapani makes the case that a deeper examination of Sangharakshita’s teaching and approach reveals a deeper rhythm to his life and work that is relevant to everyone practicing in Triratna today.

A talk given at Adhisthana on the men’s ...

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The Organic Core of Sangharakshita's Teaching by Vishvapani

By Centre Team on Mon, 31 Oct, 2022 - 18:28

The Organic Core of Sangharakshita's Teaching by Vishvapani

By Centre Team on Mon, 31 Oct, 2022 - 18:28

Vishvapani has been studying, reflecting upon, and living out the Dharma life as presented by Urgyen Sangharakshita, Triratna’s founding teacher, for over 40 years. To mark the fourth anniversary of “Bhante” Sangharakshita’s death in 2018, this new talk delves deep into the heart of what Vishvapani calls a “unique and strange” intuitive approach to Buddhism that, at its best, seems to capture and...

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Dharmabyte: What is the Enlightened Mind?

By Zac on Mon, 19 Sep, 2022 - 06:00

Vishvapani looks behind the veils of history, legend and the texts themselves to conjur a vivid, felt image of the Buddha’s personality. In a series of beautifully observed close-up drawings from the Pali Canon we are left with a portrait of spiritual genius that is both enigmatically distant and thoroughly human.

From the talk The Buddha’s Personality, part of the series Gautama Buddha, given at London...

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