Sangharakshita

A Moseley Miscellany

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Produktbeschreibung

Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, moved to Moseley, Birmingham in 1997. He was then in his early seventies. He stayed there sixteen years. In some ways it was one of the most important periods of his life: he was handing on his responsibilities to senior disciples. But what was it like to be Sangharakshita at this time? What kind of life did he lead? This miscellany of prose and verse brings us right into the life and mind of the author - and what scope is there to be discovered: a poem on dementia; a recollection of "a season in hell." Secular Buddhism is the subject of one of the book reviews. He also pays a personal tribute to Ayya Khema. The poetry (plus an Apology), written in old age, expresses something essential of the Sangharakshita of these years; his themes include the Twin Towers, Merlin, and poems to a new friend. These are not "Buddhist teachings" in the traditional sense but the output of someone whose whole life has been lived in and for the Dharma. To read them is to be brought into contact with the living stream of Buddhism, and perhaps to come away changed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Windhorse Publications (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781909314689
• ISBN-10: 1909314684
• Artikelnr.: 43228826

Autorenporträt

Sangharakshita is the founder and principal teacher of Triratna, a worldwide Buddhist movement. With teaching experience spanning 60 years, he is the author of over 40 books.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
About the Author ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
I The Wind 13
II My First Eight Years: A Mosaic of Memories
Neighbours and Early Friends 17
In the Classroom 23
Outings 26
Shops and Shopping 31
Nana 34
Illness and Accidents 37
III Reveries and Reminiscences
A Room with a View 45
Terra Incognita 57
A Season in Hell 70
Thoth, Hermes, and Sanatkumara 87
The Big and the Great: Vandalism and Iconoclasm 100
My Five Literary Heroes 109
The Language of Scents 126
And on his Dulcimer he Played 136
IV Poems I
Dancing Round the Maypole 149
The Warning Voice 151
Then and Now 152
Queens Past and Present 153
The Economic Argument 154
The Double Root 155
Poet and Muse 156
The Listener 157
Three Arthurian Poems
1. The White Hawthorn 158
ii. Love and Duty 159
iii. The Cell of Glass 160
In Krakow
1. In the Great Square 161
ii. To Michal, my Interpreter 161
iii. On the Balcony 162
Guhyaloka, September 1999 163
East is East 164
To My Teacher, Chetrul Sangye Dorje 165
The Six Elements Speak 166
The Great Burning 169
Remembering Arthadarshin 170
The Silver Spoon 171
To Michal, with a Photograph 172
I Am Sitting in the Late Afternoon Sunshine... 173
Epigrams 174
Justice and Pity 175
Haikus 176
V Looking Back
The Search 179
The Ancestors 187
Reflections 205
VI Book Reviews
Buddhism Without Beliefs? 215
Asian Commitment 247
Paths that Cross in the East 250
Prophet and Loss Account 254
Quiet Lives Hit Troubled Times 256
Searching for me, Me*, or I? 260
The Search for Nirvana 264
Ways of All Buddhists 270
Who's Who of Gurus 273
VII Ayya Khema: A Personal Tribute 279
VIII An Apology 287
IX Poems II
Written After Hearing a Radio Programme on Dementia 291
Mr Wireless 292
The Twin Towers 293
Political Correctness Goes Mad Again? 294
The Beguiling of Merlin 295
The Brahmas and the Sages 296
The Family Reunion 298
Index 301