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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 740
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Dr Ambedkar and His Importance For the Future of Buddhism
Our FBA Podcast this week is by Vajratara entitled Dr Ambedkar and His Importance For the Future of Buddhism.
Vajratara argues that Dr Ambedkar is not just relevant for India or for the oppressed, b…
Dr Ambedkar and Sangharakshita
In a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the mass conversion to Buddhism of Dr Ambedkar and thousands of his followers, Nagabodhi tells the story of Ambedkar and the role that Sangharakshita was t…
The Significance of Dr Ambedkar In the West
In this week’s FBA Podcast Subhuti offers The Significance of Dr Ambedkar In the West.
Speaking during a festival day in 2010 held to celebrate the life of Dr Ambedkar, Subhuti speaks about what sig…
The 4 Gifts
All bona fide Buddhism is Activism. We want to make the world better right? The issue is energy; how can we cultivate energy in pursuit of the good. In this week’s FBA Podcast, entitled The 4 Gifts, …
The Buddha Was a Friend As We Can Be a Friend
Our FBA Podcast is by Padmasuri entitled The Buddha Was a Friend As We Can Be a Friend. The fourth and final in our series of talks to mark the Year of Kalyana Mitrata at the Cambridge Buddhist Cent…
In Conversation with Subhuti
In this weeks FBA Podcast we offer In Conversation with Subhuti. Suryagupta converses with Subhuti about his life and practice. Subhuti has been the President of the London Buddhist Centre for over 3…
Spiritual Friendship and the Heart’s Release
Our FBA Podcast this week is by Maitreyi entitled Spiritual Friendship and the Heart’s Release. Our teacher Sangharakshita has said: “It is in friendship (maitri) that we may find the emotional equi…
Faith and Wisdom
This week’s FBA Podcast by Danadasa is entitled Faith and Wisdom. In this Buddhist path of transformation, how we relate to practice has a profound effect upon that which unfolds. How do we relate t…
The Conscious Evolution of Man: Right Effort
This week’s FBA Podcast by Sangharakshita a is entitled The Conscious Evolution of Man: Right Effort. Discussing the evolution of consciousness, this lecture explains that at the stage of reflexive …
Quietly Revering the Unfathomable – Reflections On Guhyaloka
This week’s FBA Podcast by Dayasagara is entitled Quietly Revering the Unfathomable – Reflections On Guhyaloka. In the sparkling and wonderful talk, Dayasagara evokes the magic and mystery around hi…
Urban Metta
In this week’s FBA Podcast entitled Urban Metta Bodhilila talks about how city life offers constant opportunities for practising metta in quite challenging situations and can provide a crucible for …
A Field of Kindness
Our FBA Podcast, this week is called A Field of Kindness by Sona. A talk on kindness, the quality of caring and the Bodhisattva Ideal, given at the Stockholm Buddhist Center, on 5 September 2005.
The Richly Endowed Buddha of the Southern Realm
Our FBA Podcast, this week is called The Richly Endowed Buddha of the Southern Realm by Dhammadinna.
Third in a series of talks given on the 2012 Triratna International Retreat. For more talks, vide…
Self Compassion For the Sake of All Beings
Our FBA Podcast, this week is called Self Compassion For the Sake of All Beings. Munisha gave this talk in English to a Swedish audience, 5th March 2016, Dhammagiri Retreat Center, Sweden.
The Sevenfold Puja: Worship
Our FBA Podcast this week is entitled The Sevenfold Puja: Worship by Maniraja. The Sevenfold Puja – drawn from the Bodhicaryavatara – is the main devotional ceremony of the Triratna Buddhist Communi…
Using Ritual to Cultivate Bodhicitta
Can ritual help us put the conditions in place through which bodhicitta may arise? In this week’s FBA Podcast Using Ritual to Cultivate Bodhicitta Vijayasri explores our reactions to the idea of rit…
The Diamond Sutra – Taking Mind to its Limits
This week’s FBA Podcast is the first talk in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on ‘The Diamond Sutra’ entitled Taking Mind to its Limits. We are taken…
The Art of Ritual and Descent
In this week’s FBA Podcast, Bhadra introduces the archetypal magician, Padmasambhava, in a talk called The Art of Ritual and Descent, given at a day for men in Bristol, UK. He uses episodes from the…
The Disappearing Buddha
Our FBA Podcast this week is entitled The Disappearing Buddha by Sangharakshita. The Buddha adopted the appearance and speech of his different audiences, and gave discourses on the Dharma which inst…
Bright Blue Sky, Deep Blue Sea
Our FBA Podcast this week is called Bright Blue Sky, Deep Blue Sea by Suryadarshini.
Amitabha is one of the most well-known archetypal Buddhas, whose qualities of love and compassion attract myriad …