Welcome to FWBO-NYC
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
New York City
The FWBO is a worldwide Buddhist Movement devoted to teaching the essential truths of Buddhism in a format suited to the Western practitioner in the modern world. FWBO-NYC offers meditation classes and Buddhist study for all levels of experience in the heart of the New York City.
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.
The FWBO was founded by an English Buddhist, Sangharakshita who spent
many years studying Buddhism in India, before returning to the West.
The FWBO is a network of communities, meditation centers and other institutions
dedicated to bringing the spirit of Buddhism to the West.
The forms
in which Buddhist truths are expressed always adapt according to circumstances.
But the essence of Buddhism transcends culture and conditions.
Now that Buddhism has come to the West, westerners are faced with the
task of creating new and viable Buddhist traditions for the modern
world. Over the last thirty years the FWBO has grown to be one of the largest
Buddhist movements in the West, with canter's and activities in many
cities around the world.
The FWBO is an international Buddhist Movement
with centers in Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. It was
founded in 1967 by the Venerable Sangharakshita, an Englishman with twenty
years of experience as a Buddhist monk and scholar in India.
The FWBO in New York City
holds regular introductory meetings as well as a weekly group that
meditate and study together.
FWBO & TBMSG News News from the
wolrd wide movement
You can make a great deal of effort, but if it does not include an effort to create more favorable conditions, you are almost wasting your energy. On the other hand, you can be in the most favorable conditions imaginable, but if you are not making an effort, what use are those conditions? Both are necessary. |
New in the bookstore
Living Ethically:
Advice from Nagarjuna's Precious Garland (Buddhist Wisdom for Today)
by Sangharakshita
Play "The
Buddha Play"
Thursday to Sunday until November 1st 2009
The life of the Buddha assembled from the original texts and performed as a one-man
show.
Contact us:
with any questions or to be on our email list.
Phone: 914.632.8532
(Your name is for class announcements only. We will not sell
it to anyone.)
