At the London Buddhist Arts Centre Sangharakshita vividly evokes the life of the Buddha through his own poetry and beautifully read extracts from Sir Edwin Arnold’s “The Light of Asia”. He also recounts Arnold’s life and importance to Buddhism in the West.Poems featured in this video: Light of Asia(extracts), Before an image of the Buddha, The Quest, The Pioneer, The Conquest of Mara, The Tree of Wisdom, The Birthplace of Compassion, The Parable of the Plough, To the Recumbant Buddha, The Buddha.