Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita

by Sangharakshita, Dh Subhuti

A collection of seven recent papers by either Sangharakshita or Subhuti, or both working together. In Subhuti’s words, each attempts to follow through the implications of Sangharakshita's statement, in the first paper, What is the Western Buddhist Order?, that the Triratna Buddhist Order is the community of his disciples and disciples of his disciples, practising according to his 'particular presentation of the Dharma'. The papers included are - * What is the Western Buddhist Order? * Revering and Relying upon the Dharma * Re-Imagining The Buddha (and Buddhophany)* Initiation into a New the Ordination Ceremony in Sangharakshita's System of Spiritual Practice * 'A supra-personal force or energy working through me': The Triratna Buddhist Community and the Stream of the Dharma * The Dharma Revolution and the New Society * A Buddhist the Principles of the Triratna Buddhist Community

262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 3, 2013

About the author

Sangharakshita was born Dennis Lingwood in South London, in 1925. Largely self-educated, he developed an interest in the cultures and philosophies of the East early on, and realized that he was a Buddhist at the age of sixteen.

The Second World War took him, as a conscript, to India, where he stayed on to become the Buddhist monk Sangharakshita. After studying for some years under leading teachers from the major Buddhist traditions, he went on to teach and write extensively. He also played a key part in the revival of Buddhism in India, particularly through his work among followers of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.

After twenty years in the East, he returned to England to establish the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in 1967, and the Western Buddhist Order in 1968 (now known as the Triratna Buddhist Community and the Triratna Buddhist Order respectively).

Sangharakshita has always particularly emphasized the decisive significance of commitment in the spiritual life, the paramount value of spiritual friendship and community, the link between religion and art, and the need for a ‘new society’ supportive of spiritual aspirations and ideas.

In recent years Sangharakshita has been handing on most of his responsibilities to his senior disciples in the Order. Based at the Adhisthana retreat centre in Herefordshire UK, he is now focusing on personal contact with people. For more, go to www.sangharakshita.org.

A collection of 27 volumes will represent the definitive edition of his life’s work as a Buddhist writer and teacher. Find out more about The Complete Works of Sangharakshita

A series of talks by Sangharakshita: ‘Launch of The Essential Sangharakshita and Living Ethically’.