Manchester Buddhist Centre

Mahabodhi intro­duces Reginald Ray’s Threefold Model In the first of a series of talks on the theme of Work as Spiritual Practice,

Based on Ray’s book, Buddhist Saints in India, this is a frame­work to con­sider the spir­itual bene­fits and chal­lenges of three roles or life­styles within Buddhism:

• the sol­it­ary retreatant
• the sangha builder who works within the Buddhist institutions
• the lay prac­ti­tioner or social act­iv­ist whose com­mit­ments take them to work out in the world

According to Ray, each plays a cru­cial role in the health of the Sangha. After explor­ing the dif­fer­ent life­styles, Mahabodhi talks about his exper­i­ences as the ‘retreatant’ writer.

Talk given on 6th September 2010 at the Manchester Buddhist Centre as part of a sangha night series.

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