Bøger af Bikshu Sangharakshita

What is the meaning of life? How can we be truly happy? Buddhism answers these questions through the Dharma, which is a traditional term meaning both "the truth" and "the path", and is the subject of this book, which offers a starter-kit of Buddhist teachings and practices.

A discussion of the Sangha, or spiritual community, one of the three highest ideals of Buddhism. Sangharakshita presents the ideal Sangha as a free association between developing individuals. As Sangha is about friendships, he includes discussion of the individual's relationship with others.

We meet the Buddha as a man who struggled to understand the mysteries of life, suffering and death and became Enlightened, thereby transcending human life altogether.

An insider's view of Buddhism in the UK during the 1960s. The book provides an insight into the life and thoughts of Sangharakshita, controversial innovator, respected teacher and Buddhist scholar, charting the birth of a new religious movement, the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

Offering a description of the nature of mind and how it functions, this introduction to traditional Buddhist psychology guides readers through the Abhidharma classification of positive and negative mental states, and the relationship of the mind to karma and rebirth.

Ever since the Buddha's lifetime, people have been trying to express the ultimate meaning of Buddhism in a form that makes rational sense. This book offers a guide to texts that seem to express the goal and justification for Buddhist practice in a "breath of nonsense, a touch of Lewis Carroll".

The Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha's first teaching is a timeless truth. One starts with a vision, a moment of insight and then transformation of thoughts and acts follows in the light of that truth. This book explores it in relation to various aspects of life.

Dennis Lingwood, a novice Buddhist monk, follows his Indian Buddhist teacher on pilgrimage to find himself in Kalimpong, a hill station at the foot of the Himalayas. This memoir presents his recollections of the diverse men and women who lived in and passed through Kalimpong: the Tibetan gurus, peasant farmers, tradesmen, and travelling academics.

This is the second set of memoirs by Sangharakshita. In 1950 Kalimpong was a lively trading town in the intrigue-ridden corner of India that borders Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Tibet. Finding a welcome in this town, nestled high in the mountains, were a bewildering array of guests and settlers: ex-colonial military men, missionaries, incarnate Tibetan lamas, exiled royalty and Sangharakshita, a young English monk attempting to establish a Buddhist movement for local youngsters. In this delightful volume of memoirs, Sangharakshita shares the incidents and insights of his early years in Kalimpong. These include brushes with the Buddhist 'establishment', a meeting with the 'Untouchables' saviour Dr B.R. Ambedkar and his friendship with Lama Anagarika Govinda. Behind these events we witness the development of this remarkable young man into an increasingly effective interpreter of Buddhism for a new age.

Cultivate the many-faceted virtue of loving kindness in ordinary everyday life.