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1 – 10 of 118 matches for new society

Title

Speaker

Year

The Nucleus of a New Society

Sangharakshita describes the events of his life that led him to found the Western Buddhist Order, and explains how an individual …

Sangharakshita

1976

11.

The spiritual community and the New Society (7:47)

The Ideal Society: Right Livelihood

Buddhism stands for the creation of an ideal society as well as ideal individuals; a society …

Sangharakshita

1968

01.

The Ideal Society (13:51)

The Integration of Buddhism into Western Society (Die Integration des Buddhismus in die Westliche Gesellschaft)

What are the psychological, socio-economic and intellectual transformations required if Buddhism is to be integrated into …

Sangharakshita

1992

	01.	The founding of the FWBO as an attempt at the integration of Buddhism into Western society - meditation classes, retreats, public talks / Die Gründung des FWBO als Versuch einer Integration des Buddhismus in die Westliche Gesellschaft (16:16)
	03.	The need for the individual Buddhist to be integrated into society; the Buddhist as one who is associated with other Buddhists; as one who Goes for Refuge to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha / Der einzelne Buddhist sollte in der Gesellschaft integriert s (9:40)

Challenges of the New Society

First talk given during Dharmapala College's seminar on the New Society. In this talk Subhuti sets …

Subhuti

2010

01.

Challenges of the New Society (57:54)

Being Radical - 40 Years of the New Society

Fourth talk given at Dharmapala college's New society seminar.

Vajragupta

2010

01.

Being Radical - 40 Years of the New Society (1:03:55)

Community and the New Society

Third talk given during Dharmapala college's seminar on 40 years of the new society.

Parami

2010

01.

Community and the New Society (1:15:05)

The Buddha and Society

The fourth in a major new series of talks by Vishvapani to mark the launch of his new book: 'Gautama Buddha: The Life …

Vishvapani

2011

	02.	A pilgrimage to the Buddhist holy places; Bodhgaya and Vulture's Peak; the lost city of Rajgriha; conjuring an image of the Buddha's society from the texts: streets, houses, traffic (5:22)
	03.	The Buddha in relation to his society; the idea of 'the Buddhist Holocaust'; Engaged Buddhism; the Buddha's main social experiment as the monastic community; its principles; the Buddha as renunciant (4:53)
	06.	The Buddha presenting himself to society as a holy man; competition between and amongst Brahmins and wandering ascetics (sramanas); story of Moggallana's death at the hands of the Jains (5:05)
	10.	What can we learn from this? The Buddha as pragmatist; need to imagine a very different world and society from our own; the transfixing power of the Buddha’s personal example; conversion of Emperor Asoka; little time for cant; standing one’s own ground (4:09)