Sangharakshita starts by reading an extract from Facing Mount Kanchenjunga. He follows this by talking about and reading eight poems that he composed in Kalimpong which give a real feel for his appreciation of the place but also for his worries about the effect of logging in the mountains.

The second of Sangharakshita's memoirs which covers the period 1950-1953, beginning with Sangharakshita’s arrival in Kalimpong as a twenty-four-year-old novice monk.

A collection of letters from Sangharakshita to his friend Dinoo. Complete Works publication includes an appendix by Kalyanaprabha on his friendship with Dr Mehta, which he talks about in the letters.

The fourth of five books of Sangharakshita's memoirs, Precious Teachers covers the latter seven of Sangharakshita's fourteen years in Kalimpong.

This period includes all twelve of Sangharakshita's tantric initiations, and the remarkable Tibetan masters who gave them to him. There's also a host of other remarkable figures who come to stay at Sangharakshita's vihara, including Jivaka - the first person to undergo a medical transformation from female to male, as well as fellow English monk Khantipālo.

One could see the Urgyen House exhibition ‘Precious Teachers’ as a companion to this book.

A short article-sized memoir in which Sangharakshita seemingly almost dies...

A short collection of memoirs telling the story of how Sangharakshita came to understand the primacy of going for refuge as the "central Buddhist act".