Essence of Zen

Sangharakshita

Religion & Spirituality

Windhorse Publications

A concise account of the Buddhist view of the human mind in terms designed for readers with no previous knowledge of the subject. The author suggests that there are two kinds of mind - the reactive and the creative - and that if we make the necessary effort our minds can become more creative.

Mind Reactive and Creative

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Four experienced meditators discuss what meditation really is: a direct method of transforming consciousness, and thus our lives. Meditation is presented here as a powerful, everyday exercise which increases one's positivity and awareness, and enriches one's experience of life.

Meditation and the Transformation of Mind

J.K.

Meaning of Orthodoxy in Buddhism: a Protest

Ambedkar and Buddhism

On the morning of 14 Octobe 1956,at a mass rally in the Indian town of Nagpur, rour hundred men and women turned their backs on a millennium of degradation and slavery. Finally renouncing Hinduism, with its cruel system of `graded inequality, they turned instead to Buddhism, in search of dignity, hope and a psth to self-improvemsent. Over the coming months, Hindu India shook as hundreds of thousands more followed their example, and as the Buddha Dhamma came back to life in the land of its birth. The man solely responsible for this historic revival was Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar; politician, and educationalist; India`s first law Minister, chief architect of her constitution- and lifelong hampion of her downtrodden million.

The Ideal of Human Enlightenment, What Meditation Really is, The Meaning of Spiritual Community.

Human Enlightenment: Encounter with the Ideals and Methods of Buddhism

BIKSHU STHAVIRA SANGHARAKSHITA

This is a manifesto for a radical appraisal of art and religion which shows how the two are inextricably linked. These essays reveal a bridge between Buddhism and Western culture, and a glimpse of the inspiring possibilities of the artistic life.

Religion of Art

Arts & Photography

Religious

Puja and the transformation of the heart, with, Meditation and the transformation of mind

Vessantara

Sangharakshita's "history" of how his radical understanding that the monastic life-style and the spiritual life are not identical deepened through his encounters with Burmese monks, Tibetan lamas, and the new Buddhists of India.

History of My Going for Refuge

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Hundreds of people were waiting as the train drew in from Bombay. Waving garlands, banners and lamps they roared as a smiling, orange-robed figure stepped down. The crowds came from the poorest section of Indian society, but the monk they were greeting hailed from Tooting, London. Terry Pilchick (Nagabodhi) was a witness to this crazy reversal of the guru syndrome and other extraordinary results of a revolution begun by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar thirty years earlier. It was then that Dr Ambedkar-champion of India's 60 million 'Untouchables'-had led a peaceful revolt. Leaving behind the oppression of the caste system, he and his followers had converted to Buddhism. Jai Bhim! is a colorful, humorous yet moving meeting with these new Buddhists and the unique revolution they are building in the city slums and remote villages of modern India. "A travel book which can extend the moral as well as the imaginative ... horizons of the reader."-Faith and Freedom

Jai Bhim!: Dispatches From a Peaceful Revolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Terry Pilchick (Nagabodhi)

Philosophy

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