The FWBO-Files: A Response

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1	Introduction
2	Sangharakshita
2.I	Sangharakshita’s Place in the Buddhist Tradition
2.II	Sangharakshita’s Training
2.II.a	As a Wandering Ascetic and in the Theravada
2.II.b	Sangharakshita — the Triyanist
2.III	Tibetan Buddhism
2.III.a	Tantric Initiations
	Sangharakshita’s attitude to initiations
	Passing on initiations
2.III.b	The Approach to Texts
	Summary of Sangharakshita’s Training
2.IV	Sangharakshita’s Career
2.IV.a	Involvement with Ambedkarism
2.IV.b	Involvement with British Buddhism in the 1960s
	The Hampstead Buddhist Vihara
	Sangharakshita’s departure from Hampstead
	Suicides
	The “Real” Western Buddhist Order
3	Sangharakshita’s Teachings in Theory and Practice
3.I	Sangharakshita’s actual teaching
3.I.a	The Question of Orthodoxy
3.I.b	Translation and Adaptation
3.II	The Teachings of the FWBO
3.II.a	“Higher and Lower Beings”
	Sangharakshita and Nietzsche
	“The Higher Evolution”
3.II.b	Support for Sangharakshita’s Approach
3.III	Theory and Practice
3.III.a	Men & Women
3.III.b	Sex & Lifestyle
	Beyond the Monk-Lay Split
	Sex and Spiritual Life
3.III.c	Families & Lifestyle
3.III.d	Sex & the FWBO
	Heterosexuality and Homosexuality
	The Charge of Coercion
	Sex & Kalyana Mitrata
	Sex & Sangharakshita
	The Croydon Buddhist Centre
3.V	Buddhism and Christianity
	The Manner of Sangharakshita’s Discussion of Christianity
4	Allegations against the FWBO
4.I	Finances
4.I.a	Supplementary Benefit and Housing Benefit
4.I.b	Phoenix Housing Co-operative
4.II	The FWBOs Education Work
4.III	The Ambitions of the FWBO
5	Conclusion
	Bibliography
	Appendices
5.I	“Sexual Evolution”, Dhammadinna. An article on development of sexual mores in the FWBO.
5.II	“Learning the Harsh Way” Vishvapani. A personal account of the Croydon Buddhist Centre.
5.III	Controversy Over the FWBO’s Educational Work
5.III.a	Statement from the FWBO Communications Office
5.III.b	Letters to the Times Educational Supplement from Vishvapani; The Association of Religious Education Advisers and Consultants; Bhikkhu Dhammaratana.
	Letter from Charles Clarke MP

The FWBO-Files: A Response

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