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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

A Golden Thread

By Candradasa on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

A Golden Thread

By Candradasa on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

This is the eleventh talk to be produced and released by the Triratna Video Library this year as the 100th birth anniversary celebrations continue.

Sangharakshita visited the Edinburgh FWBO (Triratna) Buddhist Centre in September 2007 as his book ‘Precious Teachers’ was published. He offered this special talk, in which he chose to focus on his friend and teacher, Dhardo Rinpoche.

He invited the audience to picture the unlikely friendship of two young men, one a Tibetan tulku and the other an English bhikkhu,...

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The Diamond Sutra, Sangharakshita and Us (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 - 11:00

Bhante Sangharakshita described the Diamond Sutra as one of two books ‘by which I have been most profoundly influenced.’ We could see it as the keystone in the central arch of the architecture of his thinking about the Dharma. In this talk, Satyalila introduces the Sutra in its context of the Perfection of Wisdom (or Prajnaparamita) tradition and explores its significance for Sangharakshita, and for us. Talk given on a Bristol Buddhist Centre Sangha...

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Recordings of the Celebration of 100 Years Of Sangharakshita

By dayaketu on Mon, 1 Sep, 2025 - 16:51

Recordings of the Celebration of 100 Years Of Sangharakshita

By dayaketu on Mon, 1 Sep, 2025 - 16:51

Celebrating 100 Years of Sangharakshita

Watch the recordings of the big centenary retreat at Adhisthana when we celebrated and reflected on the life of our teacher and founder on his 100th Birthday. A mix of special online-only events and opportunities to practise as part of this great gathering of Triratna friends!

Watch the recordings of the centenary celebrations here

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Sanghadevi shares some important interactions and observances of Bhante Sangharakshita through his involvement in the Movement and Order.

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 19 Feb, 2025 - 10:30

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 19 Feb, 2025 - 10:30

Jnanavaca recounts some humorous and meaningful experiences with Sangharakshita drawing out his capacity to communicate beyond just his words.

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Unseen Sangharakshita

By Centre Team on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 13:33

Unseen Sangharakshita

By Centre Team on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 13:33

Sangharakshita 100 events continue with the next ‘Unseen Sangharakshita’ video.

This time it’s a talk entitled ‘Wesak and After’ which you can now watch on the Triratna Video Library

In May 1992 Bhante Sangharakshita was invited to speak at a UK Western region Wesak festival gathering. He reminisces about his first Wesak celebration in 1949 and highlights the importance of understanding the significance of Wesak and the Buddha’s Enlightenment, asking the question ‘What is Enlightenment?’

He recounts a recent...

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Giving Ourselves Completely (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 23 Jan, 2025 - 16:03

In answering the question ‘What is Buddhism?’, Sangharakshita identifies higher evolution - the development of higher states of consciousness - with the twelve links in the progressive trend of the Buddha’s teaching of conditioned co-production. Here he defines the second link, that of faith, translated from the sanskrit shraddha. Excerpted from the talk entitled Buddhism and the Path of the Higher Evolution, part of the series The Higher Evolution, given in 1969.

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Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Tue, 10 Dec, 2024 - 11:01

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Tue, 10 Dec, 2024 - 11:01

Sumana sheds some light on the atmosphere of the movement in the 70s sharing experience of his first impressions of Urgyen Sangharakshita and later occasions that shaped the direction of his life.

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Truly Human Individuals (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Zac on Tue, 5 Nov, 2024 - 13:07

In a paper of great clarity and insight, Sangharakshita introduces the figure of the Bodhisattva, who embodies the principle of perpetual self-transcendence.  Excerpted from the talk The Bodhisattva Principle, given in 1983, as part of the series Two Lectures to a Conference on Reality, Consciousness and Order.

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