'His life shows what a single human being can do, given sufficient courage, determination, and inspired vision.'

This is a admirable account of Sangharakshita, founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, poet, scholar, commentator - and a teacher of great clarity and vision.

Born in London, Dennis Lingwood realised he was a Buddhist at the age of sixteen. Conscripted during the Second World War, army life took him to India where he stayed on to become the Buddhist monk Sangharakshita. By the mid-1950s, he was an increasingly active and forthright exponent of Buddhism and had established a uniquely non-sectarian centre in Kalimpong.

Returning to the UK in the 1960s, he established the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. This dynamic movement has been pioneering a vital form of Buddhism for the Western world today - and is also at the heart of a Buddhist revival in India.

Read the story of this complex and highly gifted man. Sangharakshita's story is proof that it is possible to live a truly spiritual life today.





Paperback: 208 pages 12 b/w photographs
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 0904766691
List Price: $18.95

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