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Through Buddhist Eyes (Paperback)
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Through Buddhist Eyes (Paperback)
Series: The Complete Works of Sangharakshita, 24
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Total price: R688
Discovery Miles: 6 880
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Through Buddhist Eyes continues Sangharakshita's five volumes of
memoirs. Covering journeys across five continents and two decades,
this volume is made up of nineteen travel letters and one talk.
They are Sangharakshita's heartfelt communications to the growing
membership of the new Buddhist movement he founded: the Triratna
Buddhist Order. The journey begins with Sangharakshita's return to
India in 1979 after an absence of twelve years. There, the vision
of Buddhism he longed to see in the land of the Buddha's birth was
already coming to fruition in the movement initiated by Dr
Ambedkar. It was to remain a constant theme throughout his
subsequent thought and writing. The growing network of friendships,
teams and communities that make up this pioneering Buddhist
movement then come alive in a late twentieth-century world of
airports and motorways, of Beat poets, vegetarian pizzas,
counter-culture and visionary social activism. But the travel
letters also have a deeper significance; these are, above all,
spiritual communications. Whether awed by works of artistic
brilliance or enveloped in moods of contemplation, Sangharakshita
responds with a combination of keen observation and an ever-present
imaginative engagement. Sangharakshita delights in culture, in art
and particularly in literature in his letters. This volume
supplements the accounts of his adventures with over 800 endnotes
detailing the lives and achievements of artists, poets, writers,
musicians, philosophers and members of the Triratna Buddhist Order
that he references, plus twenty maps and illustrations. Part
reflection, part travelogue, part chronicle of a vibrant new
spiritual movement, Through Buddhist Eyes opens a window on the
inner life and the outer world of Urgyen Sangharakshita, one of the
greatest Buddhist teachers of the twentieth century.
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