430: Telling the Story of Sangharakshita

The Buddhist Centre

Some of the team at the Urgyen Sangharakshita Trust join us for a deep dive into the art of digital storytelling and biographical work online, as we hear about the ongoing creative challenges involved in helping a spiritual community hold the legacy of their teacher across generations.
Sangharakshita was a brilliant, complex, sometimes provocative and controversial figure. He was also a friend, a thinker, a writer, and a hundred other things besides. Prajnaketu and Suryanaga discuss with us the making and remaking involved in creating a new web-based life of the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community and Order. The conversations steers between reverence for what has been given and experimentation around what's ahead as we plot a course through the digital landscape of Tik Tok, dank memes, and new social media.
The modern web opens up new possibilities for carrying the learnings and lessons of the past. This is a great collective reflection on lineage, history, and possibility as we continue Sangharakshita's great work of renewing an approach to the Dharma for the modern world.
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Show Notes
Visit the new Sangharakshita.org
Explore and subscribe to the new online life of Sangharakshita
The archive project at Urgyen House
Triratna Picture Library (Sangharakshita's photograph archives)
Sangharakshita's essay reflecting on gratitude in the Garava Sutta
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Theme music by Ackport! Used with kind permission.
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