The Rainbow Road

by Sangharakshita

• ISBN13: 9780904766943
• ISBN10: 0904766942
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Windhorse Pubns

Summary

This is the first set of memoirs by Sangharakshita. Set out on the Rainbow Road and take an extraordinary journey from wartime London to the dusty villages, ashrams and mountain caves of India. Long before thousands of Westerners flocked to Asia in search of themselves, Dennis Lingwood set out to search for the Buddha's teaching in the land that gave birth to Buddhism. Accompanying him in his quest, we can follow his life as a homeless wanderer and witness his ordination as the Buddhist monk Sangharakshita. Although full of fascinating characters and keen insights, The Rainbow Roadis not just an entertaining travel book-it is a remarkable record of a journey of spiritual exploration. "Non-fiction it may be, but he makes his points with all the finesse and resonance of a novelist.... His deft prose should invite comparison with E.M. Forster."- Times Literary Supplement. The Rainbow Roadwas originally published in two parts: Learning to Walkand The Thousand-Petalled Lotus. Further Memoirs by Sangharakshita: Facing Mount Kanchenjunga, In the Sign of the Golden Wheel, Moving Against the Stream.

Table of Contents

Giants and Dragons	1	(12)
The Children's Encyclopaedia	13	(10)
Learning to Walk	23	(8)
`Here Comes The Boys' Brigade'	31	(12)
Evacuated	43	(8)
The Veil of Isis	51	(12)
The Pendulum Swings	63	(8)
Buddhism and The LCC	71	(16)
The Misfit	87	(16)
Passage to India	103	(8)
With the Swamis in Ceylon	111	(14)
Maitreya, The Coming Buddha	125	(8)
The Three Worlds	133	(8)
Coincidences	141	(6)
The End of The Beginning	147	(6)
Jumping in at the Shallow End	153	(6)
Direct Action Day	159	(8)
All-India Religions Conference	167	(6)
Two Meetings and a Marriage	173	(6)
Anandamayi, The Blissful Mother	179	(10)
The Three Untouchables	189	(10)
Meditations in The Mango Grove	199	(6)
The Divine Eye	205	(8)
The Going Forth	213	(8)
A Question of Identity	221	(4)
Shramana Versus Brahmana	225	(6)
The Temple of the Virgin Goddess	231	(6)
The Road to Trivandrum	237	(4)
What Happened to the Offerings	241	(8)
The Town of The Three Rivers	249	(8)
`What Is Your Caste?'	257	(8)
The Three Lawyers	265	(12)
Other Friends	277	(6)
Outings and Activities	283	(10)
The Path Within	293	(8)
`Krishna Has Come!'	301	(12)
Ramdas, The Servant of God	313	(8)
At the `Abode of Bliss'	321	(8)
The Vision in the Cave	329	(14)
The One-Eyed Guru	343	(14)
Sandalwood Country	357	(10)
`Tiger, Tiger ...'	367	(6)
Disappointment at Sarnath	373	(10)
Through the Curtain of Fire	383	(10)
At the Shrine of the Recumbent Buddha	393	(10)
`Here The Blessed One was Born'	403	(10)
With The Newars in Nepal	413	(16)
Academic Interlude	429	(14)
In the Land of the Great Disciples	443	(10)
Facing Mount Kanchenjunga	453	(6)
Index	459