The FWBO, Paris.

The Centre FWBO Paris, or Paris Buddhist Centre, is part of the FWBO or Friends of the Western Buddhist Order which was founded by Urgyen Sangharakshita in England in 1967 and is known in France as Les Amis de l’Ordre Bouddhiste Occidental, and in India as Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha TBMSG.

An image of a Buddha with a flower

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A year later the Western Buddhist Order was founded when Sangharakshita conducted the ordinations of 12 men and women. The FWBO is now an International Buddhist Movement with over sixty Centres spanning 5 continents, and with over 1,400 Order Members.

You can learn more with the main page of the FWBO,
as well as find other FWBO Centres around the world.

Sangharakshita, and more recently other senior Order Members, have written numerous books on Buddhism, and the practice of Buddhist life in the Modern world, many of which can be bought on-line from Windhorse publications.

You can read by Sangharakshita:
Art and the Spirtual life.
The Artist as more Aware or Self-Conscious.
The Artist as Creative.
What is Art?
The Artist as wicked, immoral and selfish?
Nabokov and the word Genius.
Values that can transform our lives.
When an Artist creates he objectifies.