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Book Launch - I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism

By Centre Team on Thu, 1 Jul, 2021 - 14:43

Book Launch - I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism

By Centre Team on Thu, 1 Jul, 2021 - 14:43

Introducing I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism - A Book Launch
Windhorse Publications will be hosting a conversation between Danasamudra and the author of their most recent book I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism, Alice Collett.

Tuesday 13th July, 1 hour 30 minutes

11.00 US PST |  13.00 Mexico  |  14.00 US EST  |  19.00 IE & UK  |  20.00 Europe CET 
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Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Out now: ‘I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism’

By Windhorse Publi... on Fri, 18 Jun, 2021 - 13:00

Out now: ‘I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism’

By Windhorse Publi... on Fri, 18 Jun, 2021 - 13:00

As a female student and practitioner of Buddhism, at times I feel frustrated by the underrepresentation of women in Buddhist texts and iconography. To give just one example, out of the forty-six figures on Triratna’s refuge tree, only two are female. Frustrated I may be, but I probably shouldn’t be surprised. As author Alice Collett points out in Windhorse Publications’ latest release, I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism, Buddhism was born and developed within ancient...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Summer reading ideas from Windhorse Publications

By Windhorse Publi... on Fri, 14 May, 2021 - 14:39

Summer reading ideas from Windhorse Publications

By Windhorse Publi... on Fri, 14 May, 2021 - 14:39

With summer in the northern hemisphere fast approaching, and infections under control in many places, including here in the UK, lockdown restrictions are beginning to ease. What joy to be able to spend time together again! Some of us are making plans to go away on holiday, even if the choice of destination is somewhat limited. 

We’re really proud of our new books this year and we think any – or all! – of them would make great summer reading. Whether...

Triratna News
Triratna News

Celebrating International Women's Day with Windhorse Publications

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 8 Mar, 2021 - 08:00

Celebrating International Women's Day with Windhorse Publications

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 8 Mar, 2021 - 08:00

Vajradevi’s first book Uncontrived Mindfulness: ending suffering through attention, curiosity and wisdom will be published by Windhorse Publications at the end of March. In this short clip for Women’s Day, Dhammamegha interviews Vajradevi about writing, about friendship as a context for learning and teaching, and about being a woman practitioner.

By far the majority of authors published by Windhorse Publications in the past have been men. This year we have Vajradevi’s book, as well as also...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Windhorse Publications is recruiting!

By dhammamegha on Wed, 24 Feb, 2021 - 11:31

Windhorse Publications is recruiting!

By dhammamegha on Wed, 24 Feb, 2021 - 11:31

Would you like to help us share the  Dharma? Windhorse Publications is recruiting for a new marketing person. We are a small independent publisher that specialises in adult non-fiction about meditation, mindfulness and Buddhism. We serve the Triratna Buddhist Community and other contemporary Buddhist practitioners across the world with life-changing books. You can find out more about us at www.windhorsepublications.com 

We’re looking for a dynamic and highly organised junior marketer and publicist. The successful applicant will be able to develop...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Our latest free eBook and our January Sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Thu, 7 Jan, 2021 - 12:09

Our latest free eBook and our January Sale

By Windhorse Publi... on Thu, 7 Jan, 2021 - 12:09

Happy New Year! May all blessings be yours in 2021.

Until the end of January, we’re giving away the eBook edition of Change Your Mind by Paramananda, which is one of our bestselling books on meditation.

Download your free copy of Change Your Mind.

This giveaway ties in with an online retreat Paramananda will be leading from 15 -21 January called ‘The Alchemical Heart’. Paramananda writes: ‘This online retreat tailored for home practice will offer an experiential approach to meditation, with an emphasis on the relationship between...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

A heads up about an issue with our email

By Windhorse Publi... on Fri, 4 Dec, 2020 - 16:00

A heads up about an issue with our email

By Windhorse Publi... on Fri, 4 Dec, 2020 - 16:00

We currently have an issue with our email. Many of the messages we are sending are either being returned to us undelivered or are being sent to the recipient’s junk folder. This applies to automatic emails sent by our website (for example, when you place an order) as well as responses to customer enquiries.

If you’ve contacted us in the past few days and haven’t heard back from us, or if you’ve placed an order on our website and haven’t...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

We've got lots of great reading for you!

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 16:30

We've got lots of great reading for you!

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 1 Dec, 2020 - 16:30

We’ve got lots of great reading lined up for you this week: we’re discounting eleven life-enhancing paperbacks in our Monthly Sale for December and we’ve got a link to the latest issue of Vajra Bell magazine. 

Announcing our Monthly Sale for December

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, this time of year is a popular time for visiting friends and family and exchanging gifts, so we thought we’d bear that in mind when choosing which paperbacks to discount in our December sale. We’re calling this month’s...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Our latest eBook giveaway: ‘A Survey of Buddhism’

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 27 Oct, 2020 - 13:45

Our latest eBook giveaway: ‘A Survey of Buddhism’

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 27 Oct, 2020 - 13:45

For the next two weeks we’re giving away the eBook edition of a ground-breaking text that has inspired readers for decades: Sangharakshita’s A Survey of Buddhism. The great Buddhist teacher and writer Lama Anagarika Govinda wrote, ‘It would be difficult to find a single book in which the history and development of Buddhist thought has been described as vividly and clearly as in this survey.’ 

The first chapter, which runs to almost two hundred pages, explores the doctrines and methods common to...

Triratna News
Triratna News

Sangharakshita's 'Complete Works' Returns to India

By Sadayasihi on Fri, 9 Oct, 2020 - 09:09

Sangharakshita's 'Complete Works' Returns to India

By Sadayasihi on Fri, 9 Oct, 2020 - 09:09

In this video, from Urygen House, Vidyadevi introduces the work of the literary executors - and her work as series editor - of Sangharakshita’s Complete Works. Launched in October 2016, the Complete Works includes all Sangharakshita’s previously published work, as well as talks, seminars and writings published for the first time. This collection of twenty-seven volumes will represent the definitive edition of his life’s work.

Here we take a closer look at the latest volume in production - Dr. Ambedkar and...

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