The Essential Sangharakshita: A Half-Century of Writings from the Founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

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Profoundly knowledgeable and articulate and equally at home with science philosophy myth art and poetry Urgyen Sangharakshita uses every inner avenue to communicate the timeless Dharma to the Western mind. Engaging both the intellect and the heart countless times in a single chapter the author draws remarkably apt examples from sources as diverse as Orwell Aeschylus and Jane Austen. This distilled volume is a primer to the breadth and depth of Buddhist thought and practice.