Sangharakshita's personal welcome to his website first appeared on this Home Page two years before he died. It is reproduced here with a few minor changes.

Welcome to my web-site. Whatever may have brought you - whether an interest in meditation or Buddhism, or because you have heard of me in other ways - I hope the words and images you find here will enable you to discover more about me, about my life and work for the Dharma, and about the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community.

In the course of my long life, I authored more than seventy books and gave hundreds of lectures, communicating to people all over the world, and from all walks of life, the Buddha’s Teaching, which, for two-and-a-half thousand years, has transformed the lives of millions of men and women. It is just as relevant today.

You will find some useful links to my books and recorded lectures below. On other pages on this site there are extracts from my writings, some of my poems, as well as interviews, and a personal statement I issued at the end of 2016.

The Triratna Buddhist Order, which I founded in 1968, is an international fellowship of committed Buddhists, men and women who ‘go for Refuge to the Three Jewels’. Many are involved in running urban Buddhist Centres and Groups, as well as rural Retreat Centres, in some twenty-seven countries. Some live together in residential spiritual communities and a few work together in team-based Right Livelihood businesses.

Nearly one third of Order members are Indian. I myself lived in the East for twenty years, and was involved with the mass conversions inaugurated by Dr B.R. Ambedkar whom I knew and whose work I continued after his death. (See Dr Ambedkar and the Buddhist Revival, available from Windhorse Publications).

If you would like to come into contact with the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, if you want to learn to meditate, or are interested in discovering how the Buddha’s teaching can transform both the individual and society, thebuddhistcentre.com will give you a list of Triratna Centres and Groups and many resources to help you.

Urgyen Sangharakshita

Further Resources

For a list of Triratna Buddhist Centres and Groups:
Triratna Around The World

For news, resources and more:
The Buddhist Centre Online

For lectures by Sangharakshita and Order members, free to download:
Free Buddhist Audio

For books on Buddhism by Sangharakshita and others:
Windhorse Publications