A clear and practical guide to Buddhist psychology, exploring the Abhidharma analysis of mind and mental events. Through detailed examination of the fifty-one mental factors, this book shows how craving, anger and delusion ariseand how positive states can be cultivated to support meditation, insight and spiritual transformation.
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1 The First Buddhist Analysts 1
2 Analysing the Path to Enlightenment 25
3 Whats the Point? 43
4 The Nature of Mind 63
5 The Perceptual Situation 91
6 A Steady Focus 137
7 The Creative Mind at Work 161
8 Forces of Disintegration 221
9 Factors of Instability 295
10 Unclassifiable Mind 353
Sangharakshita (1925-2018) was a Buddhist teacher who spent nearly twenty years in India before returning to the United Kingdom and founding the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (originally the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order). He was an important translator of Buddhism into western culture in the latter half of the 20th century.
Born in London as Dennis Lingwood, he became a Buddhist monk in India in 1949. He studied with Buddhist teachers from Theravada, Chinese and Tibetan traditions, and from 1957 spent several months each year teaching the dalit Buddhist followers of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. In 1964 he returned to the UK and established the FWBO (now Triratna) in 1967, drawing on the riches of the entire Buddhist universe, as well as helpful aspects of Western cultural traditions.
Sangharakshita was a prolific author, from his first major work A Survey of Buddhism (1957), to edited lectures and seminars, to a series of memoirs of his time in India and the West. His Complete Works have now been published in 27 volumes by Windhorse Publications. The Triratna Buddhist Order and Community is a thriving worldwide movement, in which his teachings continue to inspire practitioners new and old.
