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The Spiritual Community

The nature of the Buddhist spiritual community and why it is so essential to spiritual life...

Sangharakshita

1966

	02.	What is spiritual community (sangha)? How one becomes a Buddhist: the Three Refuges (8:26)
	04.	The Sangha Jewel; the Great Sangha (maha-sangha) (5:22)
	05.	The Monastic Order (bhikshu/bhikshuni-sangha) and the parajikas (rules which, if broken, exclude one from the Order) (7:58)
	06.	The Community of the Noble (arya-sangha); the four grades of Bodhisattvas (9:13)
	07.	Why have a Sangha? Spiritual friendship and clarifying one’s understanding (14:25)

Intellect, Emotion, and Will

At the opening of the Manchester Buddhist Centre, Sangharakshita presents some of his latest thinking. With his usual clarity …

Sangharakshita

1996

06.

Our response to the Sangha - the Arya-Sangha; the non-Aryas (7:32)

Looking Ahead a Little Way

At the last Western Buddhist Order convention of the 20th Century, Sangharakshita reviews the road travelled thus far and …

Sangharakshita

1999

10.

Stream Entry: a radical transformation in the nature of Going for Refuge; four levels of the arising of the Bodhichitta; the real Bodhicitta as neither individualistic nor altruistic; manifesting Avalokiteshvara, becoming an Arya Sangha (7:50)

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

06.

The English Sangha Trust and the Hampstead Vihara (5:03)

The New Man Speaks

This lecture celebrates the anniversary of the Buddha's decision to teach, with an account of the events just after his …

Sangharakshita

1972

02.

Three great festivals: i. Vaishaka (Buddha Day) ii. Dharmachakrapravartana (Dharma Day) iii. The end of the rainy season retreat (Sangha Day) (8:37)

Monks and Laymen in Buddhist Tibet

How orthodox is the Tibetan monastic tradition? This lecture explains the grades of seniority among Tibetan monks, their …

Sangharakshita

1968

01.

Four jewels of Tibetan Buddhism, including three levels of sangha (9:05)

The History of My Going for Refuge

An often inspiring autobiographical lecture taking up Sangharakshita's story from his earliest experiences of Buddhism …

Sangharakshita

1988

17.

The communal context of Going for Refuge: the Sangha; the higher-evolutionary context: the twelve positive nidanas; the cosmic context: the Bodhisattva Ideal and the Cosmic Bodhichitta (15:23)