Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism

Download or read book Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world without beauty, myth, celebration or ritual. It seems that to feel fully and vibrantly alive, these experiences are essential to us. Devotional ritual speaks this language of the heart, but can be a confronting aspect of Buddhism for some people in the West. Skilfully steering us through the difficulties we may encounter, Sangharakshita leads us through the sevenfold puja, a sequence of devotional moods found in Tibetan and Indian forms of Buddhism