Sangharakshita – FWBO Lectures on Buddhism as listed
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Adhisthana Writings – A collection of twelve pieces written between August 2015 and March 2016, beginning with a letter to Sangharakshita’s friend Paramartha, who was unexpectedly summoned to the other side of the globe, and continuing in the form of reveries and reminiscences. His parents, the stras, the supernormal, beauty, and many other topics occupy his thoughts.
Carter’s Residence – Completed in April 2017. Sangharakshita recounts his meeting with Carter, a young American hippie, and their life together at the end of the 1960s in this essay.
Some Thoughts on the Garava Sutta – The Buddha states in the Garava Sutta that it is difficult to live without honoring and respecting anybody. Sangharakshita delves into the consequences for modern Buddhists in this significant work.
The Spiritual Friend, the False Friend, and the Good Friend – Sangharakshita’s starting point in this work, published in May 2017, is the Upaha Sutta of the Sayutta Nikya and the Buddha’s oft-quoted statements to nanda regarding the role of kalya mittat (Skt: kalya mitrat or spiritual friendship) in the spiritual life. He then goes on to investigate the concept of friendship from a variety of perspectives.
Four Visits – ‘Four Visits,’ written in June 2017, is a form of fiction; a work of imagination, the medium of communication here is symbol, picture, and archetype.
A Note on a Complex Personality – Among the various views condensed into Sangharakshita’s ‘Personal Statement’ of December 30, 2016, was the observation that ‘Triratna occasionally bears the imprint not of the Dharma but of my own distinctive personality. That personality is complicated’. What Sangharakshita meant by it has been debated, and six months later he provided this Note clarifying his meaning.
Suggestions for a Hypothetical Artist – Completed on August 12, 2017, Sangharakshita speaks about two of his literary idols who, unusually, were both excellent poets and outstanding painters. He asks a ‘Hypothetical Artist’ to depict one of his recent pieces of writing at the end of the essay.
In Myth and in Human Experience, Evil – Completed in September 2017, Sangharakshita addresses the natural and moral causes of evil, the significance of confession (as well as joy in merits), and examines each of the four Mras of Buddhist tradition in turn.
Blake and the Gates of Paradise – Completed in October 2017, Sangharakshita investigates how reciprocal forgiveness might move us closer to the realization of Blake’s Jerusalem, or, in Buddhist terminology, the building of a Pure Land on Earth.
‘Nowhere News’ – and from India – In ‘News from Nowhere,’ one of the great Victorians, William Morris, compares his day’s England to the socialist England of the future, when privilege and inequity will be swept away in the fires of revolution. Using this as a starting point, Sangharakshita contrasts Morris’ vision of revolution with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Dhamma revolution in India.
‘A Brace of Uncles’ and ‘My Uncle Leonard’ – Sangharakshita remembers several of his relatives in this piece, which he wrote over a few of evenings in November 2017.
Evil – and Good – Resurrected Sangharakshita returns to the theme of evil that he addressed in September, this time with references to Blake, Nietzsche, and Avalokitesvara / Kuan Yin.
The Green Tr and the Fourth Lakaa – The four sdhanas received from Jamyang Khyentse Rimpoche: Majughoa, Avalokitesvara, Vajrapi, and Green Tr, and their ‘correspondence’ (in the hermetic sense) with the lakaas, samdhis, and vimokas, lead to a series of reflections on the Path of Beauty in western spiritual tradition and its relevance for Buddhists today.
Sangharakshita begins this work, written in early 2018, with a narrative recounted to him by one of his teachers, and then goes on to ponder on the importance of Bodhisattvas in his life and the lives of other Buddhists.
Rainbows in the Sky – In this work, finished on January 22, 2018, Sangharakshita remembers rainbows from his early days until his Going Forth in 1947, and most recently when they appeared above Adhisthana on his ninetieth birthday. And he emphasizes the presence of Padmasambhava – the Rainbow-bodied one – in the life of the Order from the very beginning, and clarifies that a comment he made in 2009 concerning a re-founding of the Order “can only be in the sense of making the original foundation stronger”.
A Passage to America – In this March 2018 post, Sangharakshita remembers his first travel to America over fifty years ago, on his way to teach a term at Berkeley, with musings triggered by the flight information screen above his window seat.
Inequalities – Sangharakshita comments here in April 2018 on power imbalances in various relationships – and on how one might use whatever power one possesses either adversely or unskilfully on the one hand, or constructively and expertly on the other.
1 and 2 of Dreams Old and New – Sangharakshita recounts some of his dream scapes in these two essays, written in April and May of 2018. Ashrams, cathedrals, forests, and outer space are among them. The setting appears to be modern at moments and ancient at others.
A Note on Science and Poetry After reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not What It Seems, Sangharakshita reflects on the connection between science and poetry, and their common language of insight, intuition, inspiration, and imagination, in this piece written over three nights near the end of June 2018.
Buddhism and Islam – Starting in his teenage years by reading three translations of the Koran, Sangharakshita has long taken an interest in the cultural, philosophical and mystical sides of Islam, and in 1982 he led a seminar on Al-Ghazali’s The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam. In this article, written in July 2018, he reflects on this earlier interest, with further thoughts about contact today between Buddhists and Muslims, post ‘9/11’.
Islam and the Buddha – Following on from his previous piece, Buddhism and Islam, Sangharakshita discusses Shah-Kazemi’s Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism, with special reference to an article of his own published sixty or more years ago, Religion as Revelation and Discovery.
My Muslim Friend – Here Sangharakshita writes for the first time about his friendship with Ramzan Ali whom he came to know towards the end of his years living in India. Both Ramzan’s mother and his ‘guru’ also feature in the story.
Rebirth Revisited – Sparked off by reading Bhikkhu Analayo’s recent publication, Rebirth in Early Buddhism and Current Research (Wisdom Publications 2018), Sangharakshita reflects on the place of rebirth in both the śrāvakayāna and the bodhisattvayāna, these two main forms of Buddhism being based respectively on the ideal of the Arhant and the ideal of Supreme Perfect Buddhahood.
A Word on the Mantrayāna – Writing in October 2018, Sangharakshita considers the significance of the Mantrayāna, also known as the Vajrayāna – through the practice of which it is said that with the help of mantras one may be able to achieve Supreme Perfect Enlightenment within a single human lifetime.
Recent Writings
Looking Back – In which Sangharakshita writes of his search for traces of his Lingwood ancestors in Suffolk, the results of the search, and his personal reflections arising therefrom.
Reveries and Reminiscences – A set of eight sketches in which Sangharakshita combines the describing of various recollections he has not elsewhere set to paper, with associative musings on various themes related to these recollections.
‘A Mosaic of Memories’ – A series of sketches detailing incidents from Sangharakshita’s childhood that he has not written of elsewhere.
Books by Sangharakshita
Books by Sangharakshita are available from Windhorse Publications in the UK and Windhorse Books in Australia or from your local Triratna Centre. Selected titles have been published in the following languages: Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Gujerati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Kanada, Marathi, Modern Greek, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Telegu, Thai, Turkish.
Following is a list of books published by Sangharakshita.
Biography
Anagarika Dharmapala: A Biographical Sketch
Great Buddhists of the Twentieth Century
Books on Buddhism
The Eternal Legacy: An Introduction to the Canonical Literature of Buddhism
A Survey of Buddhism: It’s Doctrines and Methods Through the Ages
The Ten Pillars of Buddhism
The Three Jewels: The Central Ideals of Buddhism
Edited Seminars and Lectures on Buddhism
The Bodhisattva Ideal
Buddha Mind
The Buddha’s Victory
Buddhism for Today – and Tomorrow
Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism
The Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment
The Essence of Zen
A Guide to the Buddhist Path
Human Enlightenment
The Inconceivable Emancipation
Know Your Mind
Living with Awareness
Living with Kindness
The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism
New Currents in Western Buddhism
Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism
The Taste of Freedom
The Yogi’s Joy: Songs of Milarepa
Tibetan Buddhism: An Introduction
Transforming Self and World
Vision and Transformation
What Is the Dharma?
What Is the Sangha?
Who Is the Buddha?
Wisdom Beyond Words
Essays and Papers
Alternative Traditions
Crossing the Stream
Going For Refuge
The Priceless Jewel
Aspects of Buddhist Morality
Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity
The Journey to Il Covento
St Jerome Revisited
Buddhism and Blasphemy
Buddhism, World Peace, and Nuclear War
The Bodhisattva Principle
The Glory of the Literary World
A Note on The Burial of Count Orgaz
Criticism East and West
Dharmapala: The Spiritual Dimension
With Allen Ginsburg In Kalimpong (1962)
Indian Buddhists
Ambedkar and Buddhism
Memoirs, Autobioraphy and letters
Facing Mount Kanchenjunga: An English Buddhist in the Eastern Himalayas
From Genesis to the Diamond Sutra: A Western Buddhist’s Encounters with Christianity
In the Sign of the Golden Wheel: Indian Memoirs of an English Buddhist
Moving Against the Stream: The Birth of a New Buddhist Movement
The Rainbow Road: From Tooting Broadway to Kalimpong
The History of My Going for Refuge
Precious Teachers
Travel Letters
Through Buddhist Eyes
Poetry and Art
The Call of the Forest and Other Poems
Complete Poems 1941-1994
Conquering New Worlds: Selected Poems
Hercules and the Birds
In the Realm of the Lotus
The Religion of Art
Polemic
Forty Three Years Ago: Reflections on My Bhikkhu Ordination
The FWBO and ‘Protestant Buddhism’: An Affirmation and a Protest
The Meaning of Orthodoxy in Buddhism
Was the Buddha a Bhikkhu? A Rejoinder to a Reply to ‘Forty Three Years Ago’.
Reflections and Aphorisms
Peace is a Fire
A Stream of Stars
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