Sangharakshita Libri

Profoundly knowledgeable and articulate, and equally at home with science, philosophy, myth, art, and poetry, Urgyen Sangharakshita uses every inner avenue to communicate the timeless Dharma to the Western mind. Engaging both the intellect and the heart countless times in a single chapter, the author draws remarkably apt examples from sources as diverse as Orwell, Aeschylus, and Jane Austen. This distilled volume is a primer to the breadth and depth of Buddhist thought and practice.

The memoirs capture the journey of an English Buddhist monk in the mid-1950s as he endeavors to revive Buddhism in India, its birthplace. The author vividly describes the Indian landscape, offering readers a rich and detailed portrayal of his experiences and the cultural context of his mission. These reflections provide insight into both the challenges and triumphs faced in promoting spiritual teachings in a historically significant land.

Anagarika Dharmapala, founder of the Maha Bodhi Society, was the first person to take the Dharma to countries across the whole globe. He ranks as one of the greatest Buddhist figures of modern times. Sangharakshita’s biographical sketch, based on Dharmapala’s own diaries, recounts the extraordinary story with a vividness that leaves the reader uplifted and inspired. This volume also contains other writings including the sometimes controversial columns of 'Himavantavasi', as well as book reviews and the memorable sixty-five 'Immortal Sayings' of Anagarika Dharmapala.

Sangharakshita approaches communicating Buddhism in the West from two very different, but equally illuminating, angles. In the first part, he introduces the apparently exotic worlds of Tibetan Buddhism and its creative symbols, and Zen Buddhism. In the second part he examines the practice of Buddhism in the context of Western culture

This volume introduces the Complete Works volumes that include Sangharakshita's commentaries on a range of traditional Buddhist texts, beginning with The Eternal Legacy, an introduction to the canonical literature of Buddhism, and concluding with Wisdom Beyond Words, Sangharakshita's much- loved commentary on several Perfection of Wisdom texts.

This volume of Sangharakshita's Complete Works includes Facing Mount Kanchenjunga, the second in the series of his memoirs, and, in Dear Dinoo, some very personal letters. Facing Mount Kanchenjunga covers the period 1950-1953, beginning with Sangharakshita's arrival in Kalimpong as a twenty- four-year-old sramanera.

The first part of this volume describes the arising of the bodhicitta and the bodhisattva's path to Enlightenment in a weaving together of the sublime and the inspiringly practical, and the second part is a commentary on Santideva's classic 8th-century text, the Bodhicaryavatara, based on a seminar given in 1973.

In this first volume of memoirs Sangharakshita describes how, from a working- class childhood in the London suburb of Tooting, he came, a twenty-four-year- old Buddhist novice monk, to Kalimpong in the eastern Himalayas.

The nine texts in this volume, composed over a period of more than thirty years, show Sangharakshita's unfolding insight into the meaning, significance and centrality of Going for Refuge. It includes some of his most important communications to the Order he founded: on the ten ethical precepts, and the history of his Going for Refuge.

In this highly readable handbook on the fundamental teachings of Buddhism, Sangharakshita guides the reader through this sometimes complex religion.

Shows how art, like religion, can challenge our perceptions, our awareness and our experience of truth.

How much meditation is good for you? Why visualize an Enlightened being? Are there places that meditation doesn't reach? All of these questions and very many more are tackled in this substantial compilation of Sangharakshita's teachings on meditation, drawn from previously published works and from the unpublished transcripts of seminars. Discussions reveal how Sangharakshita learned the practices on which his system of meditation - 'an organic, living system' - is based, and how that system has evolved over the years. Amid much curiosity about dhyana and Insight the book also explores such questions as how to deal with fear or distraction, doubt, drowsiness or desire.

How do we live wisely? Sangharakshita outlines how in this companion volume of commentary on Nagarjuna's Precious Garland, showing us how to use our positive ethical position, our momentum in goodness, to develop a deep understanding of the nature of life.

Set in the vibrant trading town of Kalimpong in 1950, this memoir captures the rich tapestry of encounters faced by a young English monk. Sangharakshita reflects on his experiences with diverse figures, including ex-colonial military men, Tibetan lamas, and notable personalities like Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The narrative reveals his journey of establishing a Buddhist movement for local youth while navigating the complexities of the Buddhist establishment. Through these insights, readers witness his evolution into a pivotal interpreter of Buddhism for a modern audience.

This volume contains translations of several Pali suttas, including the Dhammapada, as well as commentaries on the Satipatthana Sutta, the Karaniya Metta Sutta, the Mangala Sutta, and the Tiratana Vandana. It concludes with The Threefold Refuge, in which Sangharakshita explores perspectives on Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels.

'Going for refuge' is the act of committing one's life to Buddhism. This work shows how the monastic life and spiritual life are not identical but that what is truly important is commitment to Buddhist spiritual ideals.

The narrative explores Sangharakshita's significant years in Moseley, Birmingham, where he lived for sixteen years starting in 1997. During this pivotal time in his early seventies, he focused on passing his responsibilities to senior disciples, marking a crucial transition in his leadership within the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community. This period is depicted as transformative, highlighting his influence and the legacy he aimed to establish.

The teachings in this volume emphasize the importance of effectively utilizing our existing knowledge of the Dharma rather than accumulating more. Through seminars from 1976 and 1978, Sangharakshita presents four key works that encourage critical thinking about Mahāyāna Buddhism and its practical application in everyday life. Topics include the five spiritual faculties, ethical living through Nāgārjuna's Precious Garland, and insights from a Tibetan Abhidharma text, all aimed at fostering wisdom and ethical understanding.

In the West, Tibetan Buddhism has an exotic, even glamorous image - there are books about secret teachings, and films about mysterious lamas. But if Western Buddhists are to learn anything of real value, they must look beyond the merely exotic. The English author of this book has spent many years in contact with Tibetan lamas of all schools within the context of a wide experience of the Buddhist tradition as a whole. The book provides a down-to-earth account of the origin and history of Buddhism in Tibet, and explains the essentials of the tradition.

For Buddhists everywhere, the Three Jewels - the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha - are at the heart of daily life and practice. But how can we engage with these precious ideals in a way that makes a difference to how we live? In this volume are gathered three much loved books, Who is the Buddha?, What is the Dharma? and What is the Sangha?

The story of the spiritual journey of the famous Tibetan yogi Milarepa is often told, but less well known are the stories of his encounters with those he met and taught after his own Enlightenment, eleven of which are the catalyst for volumes 18 and 19 of the Complete Works.

This is the continuing story of Milarepa and his disciple Rechungpa, first encountered in volume 18 of the Complete Works. As portrayed in The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Rechungpa is a promising disciple, but he has a lot to learn, being sometimes proud, distracted, anxious, desirous of comfort and praise, and liable to go to extremes.

In this last volume of memoirs we find Sangharakshita arriving back in England after twenty years in the East. He is expecting to stay no more than a few months. But the months become years and as he comes to know the as yet small world of British Buddhism, he realizes that it is here that he may best be able to `work for the good of Buddhism'.

This volume contains all of Sangharakshita's poems, offering a truly complete collection, and also includes six short stories, written over many years and some of them previously unpublished, also shedding new light on the imagination and perceptions of their author.

The first part of this volume consists of writings about Anagarika Dharmapala, whom Sangharakshita revered as one of the great Buddhists of the twentieth century. The second part is made up of articles and editorials from the Maha Bodhi journal. The third part is a collection of book reviews published in various magazines over nearly fifty years.

This multi-faceted volume includes a collection of aphorisms, a selection of teachings on Buddhism and the arts, and two collections of late writings.

Through Buddhist Eyes continues Sangharakshita's five volumes of memoirs. Covering journeys across five continents and two decades, this volume is made up of nineteen travel letters and one talk. They are Sangharakshita's heartfelt communications to the growing membership of the new Buddhist movement he founded: the Triratna Buddhist Order.

This illuminating collection of previously unpublished talks traces the development of Sangharakshita's presentation of the Dharma in the West from 1965 to 2011. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the Pali canon and The Tibetan Book of the Dead to Beowulf and William Wordsworth, there are many intriguing perspectives.

"The Secrets of the Loving Touch" is an unbelievably effective program in which certain skin zones are touched to release extremely relaxing, mood-lifting and euphoretic hormones which make you balanced, healthy and happy. In addition, it instructs us on how to free ourselves of inhibitions and blocks and thereby increase the entire strength of our personality.

Die Lehre des Buddha zeigt den Weg zum vollkommen bewussten – erleuchteten – Menschen. Der Edle Achtfältige Pfad ist die wohl bekannteste Beschreibung dieses Wegs. Sie geht auf die erste Lehrrede des Buddha zurück und wird von allen buddhistischen Traditionen als einzigartiger Schatz der Weisheit und der praktischen Anleitung verehrt. Wer kennt nicht jene Augenblicke, in denen ein besonders schöner Sonnenuntergang, eine bewegende Melodie, einige Worte aus einem Buch oder der Tod eines geliebten Menschen den Schimmer einer verborgenen Wahrheit, einen tieferen Sinn des Lebens offenbaren? Die Lehre vom Achtfältigen Pfad fordert dazu auf, solche Visionen ernst zu nehmen und zeigt einen praktischen Weg, alle Aspekte des Lebens im Licht dieser Erfahrungen zu transformieren.

Tři přednášky známého anglického učitele buddhismu a zakladatele organizace Friends of Western Buddhist Order o ideálu lidské dokonalosti, tj. o Buddhovi, dále o tom, co je skutečně buddhistická meditace, a o významu duchovní komunity. Edice Mangalam.

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