How wonderful to be able to listen to such a wealth of deeply inspiring Dharma talks by Bhante and so many other experienced practitioners of the Dharma. I feel blessed.
Eric, FBA Team
I am thrilled and honoured to be a part of the FBA team. Working with other Buddhists provides an opportunity to build incredibly close relationships based on genuine trust, caring, and common values.
Candradasa, FBA Team
Connecting with my own Buddhist friends and colleagues helps keep me inspired in my own life and practice, so it's very cool that I get to work on projects that help make this possible for others too.
Viriyalila, Portsmouth, USA
FBA lets me hear the whole of our community's 'voice', and sit in a room with Sangharakshita as he elucidates the Dharma as it was originally passed on to us by the Buddha, ie. as an oral tradition.
Mary, FBA Team
I love it when a deeply moving excerpt from a Dharma talk is randomly followed on my MP3 player by a piece of music, and then more Dharma comes randomly through. That pretty much rocks my world.
Aileen, Shetland Islands
I live on an island far away from a Buddhist centre and am rarely able to go on retreats. It has been especially beneficial to me to be able to download so many inspiring talks to go deeper in my practice.
Suvarnagarbha, Cambridge, UK
When I think about FBA, the inexhaustible lamps from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa comes to mind. With the internet, the capacity for lamps to light other lamps is inexhaustible. It never needs to stop...
Suriyavamsa, Glasgow, UK
FBA is a great way to connect with what fellow members of the Triratna Buddhist Order are thinking and saying around the world. I'm happy to give £10 a month to help keep it free for all.
The risk of the FWBO losing its edge; reactions to Sangharakshita himself and the unfathomable nature of human beings; his own practice - meditation, reflection, and intuitions about the nature of reality; dreams of his teachers and archetypal dreams (8:02)
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Deciding to have sexual relationships - what the word 'experiment' means to Sangharakshita; wearing robes while being sexually active - neither monk nor lay; on the subject of teachers being sexually active with disciples - two models; on women (9:33)
Sangharakshita's complaint about non-Buddhists being considered authorities on Buddhism; a defence of animism; marigold garlands for the sacred; the destruction of trees in India (6:02)
Nagamitra - The gift of Doctor Ambedkar and Sangharakshita's presentation of his work (with a salutation to Lokamitra on 40 years of service to the Dhamma in India) (24:21)
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Subhuti - The gift of Sangharakshita's presence in his life (18:45)
Sangharakshita recounts his first visit to Essen; reflections on the 42nd anniversary of the FWBO / Sangharakshita erzahlt von seinem ersten Besuch in Essen; Gedanken zum 42 Jahrestag des FWBO (5:35)
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Growth of the FWBO globally; Sangharakshita's experiences in Germany / Wachstum des FWBO weltweit; Sangharakshitas Erfahrungen in Deutschland (3:18)
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Publishing the first spoken-word books; creation of the 'Essential Sangharakshita' around the many existing teachings / Die Herausgabe der ersten auf Vortragen basierenden Bucher; Zusammenstellung des ‘Essential Sangharakshita’ (5:25)
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Sangharakshita's own experience and advice from the last 42 years of devotion to the FWBO / Sangharakshitas eigene Erfahrung und Ratschlag auf der Grundlage von 42 Jahren mit dem FWBO (2:16)
Sangharakshita - Celebrating the founding of the FWBO in 1967; looking back to 1985 - Subhuti's book 'The Buddhist Vision'; launching a new edition (4:24)
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Sangharakshita - Finding a good book title; reminiscing about early discussions on 'what Buddhism is' - religion, philosophy or science; quotes from the bible on vision - Proverbs 29, v 18, Habbakuk 2, v 2 (8:44)
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Subhuti - Sangharakshita's translation of 'The Dhammapada'; being a translator; all you need to know for Enlightenment (2:49)
Kamalashila - Introduction: what is Buddhafield? Links with the founding of the FWBO – the radical exploration of alternatives; Sangharakshita's name – 'protector of the Sangha', 'protected by the Sangha' (4:06)
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Sangharakshita - Sangharakshita's first time at Buddhafield; 'dharmapala' and 'dharma parlour' - the spider and the fly; Buddha, Dharma and Sangha together (3:43)
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'Untouchables' in the Hindu caste system; Dr Ambedkar and the mass conversion to Buddhism; Sangharakshita's time amongst the new Buddhists of India (5:13)
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'Vicikiccha' ('sceptical doubt') - not making up your mind; Sangharakshita's positive counterparts to the three fetters - being creative, committed and clear (4:10)
Bringing Dinoo to life; London coincidences; the Kazini of Chakung; working with Sangharakshita on footnotes (3:20)
03.
Sangharakshita remembering - seeing people with appreciation; Dr Mehta; working on the notes (a Dickensian reverie); the book's audience, present and future (4:19)
04.
Writing the introduction; an overview of the correspondents' lives in 1956; the challenge of writing about Sangharakshita; breadth and depth - seeing and intuition (3:28)
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Two standout things about Sangharakshita; the ordinary and the extraordinary; kindness; a single stream of Dharma activity (2:32)
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Sangharakshita - Life in Kalimpong and on the Plains of India; Bombay in the 1950s; the Parsee (Parsi) community; Zoroastrianism (4:12)
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Letters of the Romantic poets; Byron's letters; Keats - 'a vale of soul making'; Coleridge's letters; Philip Larkin; Sangharakshita's own letter writing now (3:43)
Visiting again, 3 years on; Dr. Ambedkar with arthritis; Sangharakshita as a little controversial himself; changing religion - the Dalits ('Untouchables') and Hindu caste discrimination (4:24)
Sangharakshita Launches The Essential Sangharakshita and Living Ethically 
An Evening with Sangharakshita 
In Retrospect: A Conversation With Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita in Conversation with Kathleen Raine 
Sangharakshita - Reading Poems About Friendship 
Launch of The Essential Sangharakshita and Living Ethically 
Glimpses of the Mythic Life of Sangharakshita 
Revering and Relying Upon the Dharma: Sangharakshita's Approach to Right View 
Sangharakshita's System of Training; 1. The System 
Sangharakshita - Traditionalist Oder Radikalist? 
The Refuge Tree: Sangharakshita 
Book Re-Launch of 'Sangharakshita: A New Voice' by Subhuti At the LBC 
Kalyana Mitrata - My Relationship with Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita As Friend and Teacher 
Dr Ambedkar and Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita and the Shadow of the Past 
The Gifts We Have Been Given By Sangharakshita 
Remembering Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita’s First Connection with His Teachers and Receiving Practices (Triratna International Council 2019) 
The Diamond Sutra, Sangharakshita and Us: An Introduction 
Urgyen Sangharakshita: The Bodhisattva's Reply 
Order Puja Led by Bhante Sangharakshita 
The FWBO and the Path of Spiritual Development 
Launch of The Buddhist Vision and the Dhammapada 
Entering the Sangha 
Living with Ethics 
Mingling Souls - Launching Dear Dinoo, Letters to a Friend 
Recollections and Reflections on My Going Forth 
Remembering Ambedkar 
Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche 
The Nucleus of a New Society 
The Next Twenty Years 
Intellect, Emotion, and Will 
Fields of Creativity 
My Relation to the Order 
The Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra 
The Rain of the Dharma 
The Headship of the Order 
Growing the Spiritual Community 
Reflections on Going Forth 
Commitment and Spiritual Community 
Fifteen Points for Old and New Order Members 
Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita, the Unenlightened Englishman 
Getting to Know Sangharakshita During the Infancy of the Triratna Buddhist Community 
Dhardo Rimpoche 
Duties of Friendship in Buddhism 
Our Work as Teachers and Practitioners 
