Sanghajivini, Newcastle, UK

FBA is a great resource for women Triratna Buddhists to be able to share their Dharma teaching and practices with others around the world.
Padmavajri, East Sussex

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.
Sravaniya, Boston, USA

To hear the author's voice is to add a new dimension of meaning to his words.
Ratnachuda, South London, UK

What I value about Free Buddhist Audio is the range of talks and texts from the past, right up to the present day.
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...
Viveka, San Francisco, USA

In a famous Sutra, the walls and doors of the enlightened Vimalakirti's house disappear to accommodate hundreds of thousands of beings accompanying Manjusri on a visit. FBA has that kind of magic.
Advayasiddhi, Denmark

At FBA, sangha members can listen to Sangharakshita, hear him say things in his own voice, talk about the Dharma in his own way. And through that people here build up their own relationship with him.
Kamalashila, Catalunya, Spain

An incredibly useful resource with huge potential for educating the sangha and bringing practitioners together. I particularly like its one-stop-shop aspect: whatever it is, it's bound to be on FBA!

Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism

a series of talks by Sangharakshita

For many Westerners the philosophy of Buddhism has great appeal, but some are disconcerted to find a strong emphasis on ritual and devotion in all forms of Buddhism. This useful collection of lectures and recordings of devotional ceremonies (not a formal series) illustrate why this emphasis exists. Since this series was given, devotional practice in the FWBO has undergone a lot of change - but this is still an essential guide to some of the underpinnings.

Series given in 1967

1. Poetry and Devotion in Buddhism: the Sevenfold Puja

2. The Psychology of Buddhist Ritual

3. Buddhism and the Language of Myth

4. The FWBO Sevenfold Puja

5. A Western Buddhist Order Ordination Ceremony

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Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism

a series of talks by Sangharakshita