Living With Awareness

Sangharakshita (1925-2018) was a Buddhist teacher who spent twenty years in India before returning to the United Kingdom and founding the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (originally the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order). He was an important translator of Buddhism into western culture in the latter half of the 20th century.Born in London as Dennis Lingwood, he became a Buddhist monk in India in 1949. He studied with Buddhist teachers from Theravada and Tibetan traditions, and spent several months each year teaching the dalit Buddhist followers of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. In 1964 he returned to the UK and established the FWBO (now Triratna) in 1967, drawing on the riches of the entire Buddhist universe, as well as helpful aspects of Western cultural traditions.Sangharakshita was a prolific author, from his first major work A Survey of Buddhism (1957), to edited lectures and seminars, to a series of memoirs of his time in India and the West. His Complete Works have now been published in 27 volumes by Windhorse Publications. The Triratna Buddhist Order and Community is now a thriving worldwide movement, in which his teachings continue to inspire practitioners new and old.

• Introduction to the Classic Sangharakshita Series vSources and Publication History viii1 Beginning 12 Remembering 93 Goal-setting 144 Breathing 305 Living 476 Looking 617 Getting Down to the Essentials 738 Dying 859 Feeling 9710 Understanding 11211 Reflecting 12312 Analysing 13913 Interlude: On Further Reflection 15414 Sensing 16715 Enlightening 18516 Suffering, and Ceasing to Suffer 20717 Concluding 222Notes and References 230Index 239