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02/11/2025

15/10/2025

✨ New Release! ✨

Bodhipaksa’s 'The Heart’s Awakening' is out today — a powerful invitation to rediscover kindness at the centre of your spiritual life. 🌿

If you’ve ever wanted to bring more compassion, patience, and joy into your relationships (including with yourself), this book is for you. 💛

Rooted in decades of teaching and practice, 'The Heart’s Awakening' reimagines the brahma viharas — kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity — as down-to-earth practices for a more open, loving heart.

📘 Available now from Windhorse Publications.

26/08/2025

Sangharaksh*ta once described himself as “a lover of beauty.” For him, beauty was not simply about sense pleasures, but about a deeper purity shining through life — a beauty that points us beyond the ordinary. In his teaching, true beauty is spiritual: a reminder of something higher, more real, and more enduring than fleeting appearances. ✨

26/08/2025

We’re delighted to announce the publication of Through Which Reality Shines: A Commentary on D.T. Suzuki’s ‘Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism’.

In this landmark work, Sangharaksh*ta offers his incisive commentary on Suzuki’s influential text. Using it as a springboard, he explores some of the most profound Mahayana themes: karma, anatman, sunyata, and the Bodhisattva path with both clarity and originality. The result is a book that not only illuminates the Mahayana tradition but also reveals Sangharaksh*ta’s distinctive vision of Buddhism as a living spiritual path.

Drawn from a study seminar held in 1974, Through Which Reality Shines brings alive teachings that remain strikingly relevant for practitioners today.

The book has been carefully edited by Nagapriya, author of The Promise of a Sacred World: Shinran’s Teaching of Other Power (2022), ensuring that Sangharaksh*ta’s insights are presented with precision and accessibility.

13/08/2025

We’re delighted to announce the publication of 'Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharaksh*ta and this Teachings', a timely new book by Vishvapani. The book’s release coincides with the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Sangharaksh*ta (born 26 August 1925), founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order.

'Reimagining Buddhism' is an in-depth exploration of Sangharaksh*ta (1925-2018), a significant figure in modern Buddhism who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhism to the West and reviving it in India.

The book provides a comprehensive account of his understanding of Buddhism, tracing the influences that shaped his teachings, life as a scholar-monk, and his development of a global Buddhist movement.

It also examines Sangharaksh*ta’s complex legacy, including the controversy surrounding his sexual activities and how it affected his reputation within the Triratna Buddhist Community and beyond it. The book, written with sensitivity and scholarly insight, serves as an introduction for newcomers and a detailed analysis for those familiar with Sangharaksh*ta’s work.

The book is available to purchase in paperback or eBook format today.

24/07/2025

Where does true meaning reside? For some, it's found not just in concepts, but in the 'language of myth, imagination, and symbolism.' Looking for a Dharma that speaks to the soul? Reimagining Buddhism might be it.

23/07/2025

“Any moments where we can recognize openness and interest... will significantly change the experience.”
— Uncontrived Mindfulness by Vajradevi

In mindfulness practice, curiosity isn't just a tool — it’s a gateway. When we meet experience with interest, even the mundane becomes illuminating. ✨

16/07/2025

“Don’t expect applause.”
“Blame it all on the one culprit.”
“At this crucial time, practise the essentials.”

These aren’t life tips from a self-help book — they’re slogans from an ancient Buddhist practice called Lojong.

In our latest podcast, Dhammamegha speaks with Dhirananda and Viryabodhi about the art of mind training — transforming daily difficulties into deep compassion and clarity.

Whether you're new to Lojong or returning to its teachings, this is a beautiful episode to tune into.

07/07/2025

Yesterday, on 6 July 2025, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama turned 90. In a joyful gathering filled with warmth and respect, he reminded us of the power of compassion and selflessness. “I consider all beings as my friends and relatives,” he said, reflecting on a life devoted to bodhichitta—the wish to awaken for the benefit of all. At 90, he reaffirmed his commitment to serving others as a humble monk, urging us to cultivate loving-kindness and wisdom in our own lives. May his words continue to inspire peace in the world.

His Holiness was invited to address the gathering.

“Today, my dear friends, you are celebrating my 90th birthday. You have gathered here with joy in your hearts. I am a human being and it is natural for human beings to be affectionate and to help one another. Those of us who come from Buddhist countries have a strong sense of brotherhood and sisterhood.

"I regularly reflect on what Shantideva wrote in his book, ‘Entering into the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ and I consider all beings as my friends and relatives.

"You are attending this celebration happily, with joy in your hearts. Your joy inspires me because I cultivate awakening mind of bodhichitta. As a consequence of this, many people treat me with respect. If I was selfish and self-centred that wouldn’t be the case.

“Bodhichitta is a powerful practice. Combining it with the view of emptiness I establish the foundation for my enlightenment. I took bhikshu, Buddhist monk’s, vows in front of the Jowo, the principal image of the Buddha in Lhasa, in the company of my tutors Tagdak Rinpoché, Ling Rinpoché and Trijang Rinpoché. I have kept them well—I observe them with bodhichitta. If I am able to continue to practise well, I’ll be able to die in peace.

“I’m 90 years old today. In addition to bodhichitta, I have also worked to cultivate concentration (shamatha) and special insight (vipashyana) as well as I could. I feel I have not wasted my life, and although I have the title of Dalai Lama, I’m not proud of myself. As a follower of the Buddha, a bhikshu or monk, serving other people and serving the teaching, these are my main practices.

“Genuine bodhichitta arises gradually, but I am moved to serve others, and the more I do that the greater the joyful response I feel from others.

“Many people have gathered here today, not out of any sense of obligation, but out of joy and respect. I appeal to you all to make bodhichitta and an understanding of emptiness your own practice—thank you.”

02/07/2025

Today we are launching a brand new edition of the most classic of the classics: the celebrated first chapter of Urgyen Sangharaksh*ta’s very first book, 'A Survey of Buddhism'.

Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, Sangharaksh*ta (1925–2018) began work on his 'Survey' halfway through his foundational time in India (1944–64) at the age of just 28. He had spent his twenties submerged in Buddhism in India. He practiced devotedly, and studied teachings from across the Buddhist traditions, finding both fascination and frustration in their frequently contradictory approaches.

In his forthcoming book, 'Reimagining Buddhism' (August 2025), Vishvapani writes that Sangharaksh*ta wanted to distinguish the ‘spirit of Buddhism from the elements of the Buddhist tradition that complicated or obscured it.’ He says, ‘A Survey of Buddhism is a book with a mission... to present Buddhism as a unity by identifying the core that organizes its various expressions’.

In the 'Survey', the young Sangharaksh*ta laid out his basic unifying approach to Buddhism: an approach which would endure and mature over many years of writing and teaching, and inform the Western Buddhist movement he established in the 1960s, which still flourishes today.

The book is also hugely helpful as a survey. As the great Buddhist teacher and writer Lama Anagarika Govinda wrote, ‘It would be difficult to find a single book in which the history and development of Buddhist thought has been described as vividly and clearly’.

This new edition includes notes on sources and the publication’s history, a comprehensive glossary of terms, and a new index.

The book is the third in our series of new editions of 'Classic Sangharaksh*ta' titles. Earlier this year we published new editions of 'Living with Awareness' and 'Living with Kindness', Sangharaksh*ta’s explorations of the Satipatthana and Karaniya Metta suttas respectively.

24/06/2025

🌱 "Kindness is a quality you already have. You know it intimately."
– The Heart’s Awakening by Bodhipaksa

What if you didn’t have to learn to be kind—just remember?
In The Heart’s Awakening, Bodhipaksa gently reminds us that kindness isn’t something to strive for. It’s already within us, waiting to be nurtured and brought to life in how we speak, act, and relate—to ourselves and others.

This beautifully practical book invites us to explore kindness not as an abstract ideal, but as a lived, embodied presence. Through 108 reflections rooted in the ancient teachings of the brahma viharas, it offers a path back to something we never truly lost.

📘 Due for release later this year – stay tuned.