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  • The Buddha
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  • What Does Buddhism Teach?
  • Three Jewels
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  • Noble Eightfold Path
  • The Buddha’s ‘Noble Eightfold Path’ is a further ‘unpacking’ of the ‘Threefold Way’ and is perhaps the most widely known of the Buddha’s teachings. It is ancient, extending back to the Buddha’s first discourse and is highly valued as a treasury of wisdom and practical guidance on how to live our lives. Traditionally the teaching is seen as highlighting eight areas or ‘limbs’ of ‘right’ practice (Sangharakshita prefers ‘perfect’ to ‘right’), which sit in mutual relationship to one other and are each essential elements in an integrated approach to the Dharma:

    1. Right Understanding or Perfect Vision
    2. Right Resolve or Perfect Emotion
    3. Right Speech or Perfect Speech
    4. Right Action or Perfect Action
    1. Right Livelihood or Perfect Livelihood
    2. Right Effort or Perfect Effort
    3. Right Mindfulness or Perfect Awareness
    4. ​Right Meditation or Perfect Samadhi

    Listen to Sangharakshita’s classic series of talks on The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path.

    Read the extended companion book.

  • Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara
  • The Spiral
  • Three Disciples No. 4
  • The Buddha In The Clouds
  • The Buddha And Two Disciples
  • Three Wrathful Deitys
  • Standing Buddha
  • Three Disciples No. 1
  • The Lotus Of The Dharma
  • Mahakasyapa
  • Three Disciples No. 5
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  • The Lotus Of The Sublime Law
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  • Padmasambhava
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