Download or read book The Thought of Sangharakshita written by Robert M. Ellis and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sangharakshita (1925-2018) was a Buddhist writer and teacher, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (previously FWBO). Apart from his practical achievements, Sangharakshita was an original thinker on the adaptation of Buddhism to modern conditions, an autodidact whose intellectual creativity was stimulated by both cross-cultural experience and practical contingency. His thinking is little known or appreciated outside the movement he founded, but over-dominant within it. This means that there is a shortage of balanced critical discussion of his work that finds any middle way between hagiography and dismissal. Sangharakshita has also been an object of controversy in recent years, but his more controversial views and actions need to be seen in proportion to the whole of his thinking. This book surveys Sangharakshita's most important and original ideas with an eye that combines appreciation and critical awareness in equal measure. It celebrates Sangharakshita's pioneering syntheses of Buddhist and Western ideas, but warns against the inconsistencies and dogmas that are also found in Sangharakshita's work - dogmas whose negative practical effects can also be traced.
Download or read book Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantric Buddhism is concerned with the direct experience of who we are and what we can become. Its sole aim is to help us realize our potential for profound wisdom and unbounded compassion by transforming the energy locked in by old habits, fears and narrow views. For the Tantra this experience is beyond words and thought. But it can be evoked with the help of symbols. Without the help of a reliable guide one could easily get lost or overwhelmed in this unfamiliar world of symbols. Sangharakshita is such a guide.
Download or read book Art of Reflection written by Ratnaguna and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experience, and on Buddhist teachings, Western philosophy, psychology and literature, Ratnaguna provides a practical guide to reflection in its many forms. This is a book about reflection as a spiritual practice, about its importance, and about "e;what we think and how we think about it."e;
Download or read book Ten Pillars of Buddhism written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ten Pillars of Buddhism are ten ethical precepts-such as generosity, truthfulness, or compassion-that together provide a comprehensive moral guide. These teachings are the source of Buddhist ethics, their depth revealed here as Sangharakshita considers them collectively, then individually. The Ten Pillars of Buddhism provides a fascinating insight for anyone interested in leading an ethical or Buddhist life. "e;A handy and easily readable introduction to Buddhist ethics."e; Prof Damien Keown, author of Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction.
Download or read book A survey of Buddhism its doctrines and methods through the ages written by Sangharakshita and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Buddhism The Buddha s Noble Eightfold Path written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of Sangharakshita's Complete Works includes two foundational texts that have inspired readers for decades in their understanding and practice of Buddhism: A Survey of Buddhism and The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path.Of the first, 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 illuminates the doctrines and methods common to all schools and draws out the transcendental unity of Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the teachings and practices of the different schools. The concluding chapter is dedicated to the bodhisattva ideal, 'the perfectly ripened fruit of the whole vast tree of Buddhism'. Sangharakshita's beautiful prose, shot through with poetry, combines with an exceptional clarity of thought to make the Survey one of the most inspiring elucidations of the Dharma.The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path: Vision and Transformation looks at one of the best known formulations of the Buddha's teaching. We are led step by step from the mundane world to the transcendental, from wrong view to right view, and on to Perfect Vision. A practical perspective shows how we can apply the Buddha's teachings to all aspects of our lives, including the food we eat, our relationships and our work. Sangharakshita goes on to make clear the real meaning of mindfulness and meditation, thus giving the reader both a vision of the whole path and guidance in setting out upon it.This volume includes a full section of endnotes locating the teachings to the suttas and sAtras that inspired them, as well as a Foreword by Dharmachari Subhuti looking at these two texts from an inspirational and a critical perspective, and bringing out the inner connection between them.
Download or read book The Essential Sangharakshita written by Urgyen Sangharakshita and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Vision and Transformation written by Sangharakshita (Bhikshu) and published by Windhorse Publications (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eightfold Path is the most widely known formulation of the Buddha's teaching. It is ancient, reaching back to the Buddha's very first discourse, and it is highly venerated as a unique treasury of wisdom and practical guidance. The teaching of the Eightfold Path challenges us to grasp the implications of that vision, and asks us to transform ourselves in its light. Like the teaching itself, this work covers every aspect of life.
Download or read book Dhammapada written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dhammapada is one of the most popular and influential of Buddhist scriptures. Contained within its short verses are the essential teachings of the Buddha, words to be savoured, reflected upon and revisited. This beautiful new pocket-sized paperback edition presents a new translation of the scripture, one that brings a refreshing sense of directness and immediacy to these verses.
Download or read book Living with Awareness written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness is the means by which our consciousness is transformed, transcended, Enlightened. The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the Buddha's foremost discourses on mindfulness. In Living with Awareness, a commentary on this sutta, Sangharakshita counsels against an over-narrow interpretation of mindfulness as being simply about developing a focused attention on the present moment. To be fully mindful, one needs to look further than the end of one's nose, and integrate even the most rarefied practice into the context of a fully lived human life.
Download or read book Mind Reactive and Creative written by Sangharakshita (Bhikshu) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisdom Beyond Words written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerously disorientating to the unwary student, the Prajnaparamita or Perfection of Wisdom teachings can offer a fast route to some well-trodden blind alleys - or to the very heart of Reality. We live in a sophisticated age that often seeks to rationalize the ultimate meaning of Buddhism, but these two-thousand-year-old texts offer a giddying counterbalance to this attempt. Sangharakshita's clarity, scholarship and insight are revealed in this commentary on the Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra and the Ratnagunasamcayagatha - core teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. Using this book as a guide we can begin our own investigation of these sublime teachings - and also perhaps be rewarded with a world-shattering glimpse of the Buddhist vision of ultimate Reality.
Download or read book Sangharakshita Complete Works written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sangharakshita Complete Works written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Survey of Buddhism written by Sangharakshita (Bikshu, Sthavira) and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of the entire field of Buddhism thought and practice, describing the development of all the major doctrines and traditions and clearly demonstrating the underlying unity of all schools of Buddhism.
Download or read book Mind in Harmony written by Subhuti and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's not our bank balance, looks, social status or popularity that determines how happy, free and fulfilled we are in life. Finally, what really counts is our state of mind. Subhuti helps us to identify what's going on in our mind, and see clearly what's helpful and what will end in tears.' Vessantara. 'This is a refreshing approach to the classical Abhidharma material, relentlessly experiential and eminently practical.' Andrew Olendzki
Download or read book Uncontrived Mindfulness written by Vajradevi and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to ending suffering through the practice of mindfulness In Uncontrived Mindfulness Vajradevi guides us in the practice of exploring our experience as it happens. The emphasis is on cultivating wisdom, using the tools of attention and curiosity to see through the delusion that is causing our suffering.
