The Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly the FWBO)

Since 1967 the FWBO (Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) has been introducing the teaching and practice of Buddhism in a way that is particularly suited to people living in the modern world. We have a growing Indian wing to our movement to which the title ‘Western’ doesn’t really apply so in May 2010 we changed our name. Our community has grown to be a rich and widespread Buddhist movement, a flavour of this can be seen at the Triratna news site and also the Triratna People website.

The Triratna Buddhist Community was founded in by Sangharakshita. He is an Englishman who spent twenty years in India living as a Buddhist. There he studied and practised with teachers from all the main schools of Buddhism. Through this he developed a broad perspective of Buddhism as a whole. When he returned to the UK in 1966 this perspective enabled him to develop a new approach to Buddhism drawing on both the diversity and the unity of the different schools and teachings.

Triratna has a great deal in common with the rest of the Buddhist world – both past and present. It shares with them the basic teachings such as the Four Noble Truths, The Noble Eightfold Path, Conditioned co-production, the Six Paramitas, and  the threefold path of Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom. At the same time, it has its own distinctive features that differentiate the our movement from other Buddhist Movements.  For more details see the six distinctive emphases of the FWBO by Sangharakshita).

Links to further information about Triratna

Visit the main Triratna Website
Visit the Indian Triratna website

Read the Triratna News