In the text I will discuss in this essay, it seems as though formalism had already begun to set in to the early bhikkhu saṅgha --indeed what...

Antiochus and Stratonice I first came across this story from the vinaya (Vin i.301) and Sangharakshita's book A Guide to the Budd...

Some years ago Sangharakshita remarked that he could not find a word in any European language to describe the kind of sangha or spiritual co...

Over the past year or so I have been reflecting quite a bit on the Internet as a medium of communication and more recently have been ponder...

I've been meaning to write something about the Sangha refuge for some time. The topic arose in the comments of a post on politics by Wi...

In a comment on my article about ego Will of thinkbuddha.org opined that celebrity Buddhist , Tina Turner, had it right when she sang ...