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Moving Against the Stream, 23 (Hardcover)
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Moving Against the Stream, 23 (Hardcover)
Series: The Complete Works of Sangharakshita
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In this volume of memoirs we find Sangharakshita after twenty years
in the East arriving back in England at the invitation of the
English Sangha Trust. He expects to stay no more than a few months,
but the months become years and, as he comes to know the then small
world of British Buddhism, he realizes that after all it is here
that he may best be able to work for the good of Buddhism , as one
of his teachers had once exhorted him. After a farewell tour of his
friends and teachers in India, he goes on to found a new Buddhist
movement and to ordain twelve men and women into a new Buddhist
Order. The answer to the question Why did Sangharakshita found a
new Buddhist movement and Order? is in these pages. 'Moving Against
the Stream' has for its backdrop 1960s Britain, with figures as
diverse as Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and David Cooper, the
anti-psychiatry psychiatrist. In the world of British Buddhism
there is Christmas Humphreys, founder of the London Buddhist
Society, and Maurice Walshe, translator of the Digha Nikaya, and
many others. Here also is the story of a friendship that was to be
deeply significant for Sangharakshita. As he and Terry Delamare
drive across Europe visiting the sites of ancient Greece and the
churches, museums and great works of art of Renaissance Italy,
Sangharakshita makes vivid the role that higher culture can play in
spiritual life. This volume includes '1970 - A Retrospect' in which
Sangharakshita tells of a year that begins with lectures in Paris,
continues with three months at Yale University as a visiting
lecturer, and concludes back in Britain as he resumes his work for
the Buddhist movement. A new phase is beginning.
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