Bøker av Bikshu Sangharakshita

What is the meaning of life? How can we be truly happy? Buddhism answers these questions through the Dharma, which is a traditional term meaning both "the truth" and "the path", and is the subject of this book, which offers a starter-kit of Buddhist teachings and practices.

A discussion of the Sangha, or spiritual community, one of the three highest ideals of Buddhism. Sangharakshita presents the ideal Sangha as a free association between developing individuals. As Sangha is about friendships, he includes discussion of the individual's relationship with others.

We meet the Buddha as a man who struggled to understand the mysteries of life, suffering and death and became Enlightened, thereby transcending human life altogether.

Offering a description of the nature of mind and how it functions, this introduction to traditional Buddhist psychology guides readers through the Abhidharma classification of positive and negative mental states, and the relationship of the mind to karma and rebirth.

Ever since the Buddha's lifetime, people have been trying to express the ultimate meaning of Buddhism in a form that makes rational sense. This book offers a guide to texts that seem to express the goal and justification for Buddhist practice in a "breath of nonsense, a touch of Lewis Carroll".

The Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha's first teaching is a timeless truth. One starts with a vision, a moment of insight and then transformation of thoughts and acts follows in the light of that truth. This book explores it in relation to various aspects of life.

Cultivate the many-faceted virtue of loving kindness in ordinary everyday life.