Happy New Year! May all blessings be yours in 2021. Until the end of January, we’re giving away the eBook edition of Change Your Mind by Paramananda, which is one of our bestselling books on meditation. Download your free copy of Change Your Mind. This giveaway ties in with an online retreat Paramananda will be … [ Read More ]
2020: A Review of the Year
[Photo by Daniel Andrade on Unsplash] Windhorse Publications is one of only a handful of Buddhist publishers in the West, and, to our knowledge, we’re the only Buddhist publisher based in the UK. For the past forty-five years, the books we’ve published (by Sangharakshita and other authors) have been instrumental in the continued spread of … [ Read More ]
Introducing ‘I Hear Her Words’
We’re delighted to announce that in May we’ll be publishing I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism by Alice Collett. Core Buddhist doctrines and ethical formulations provide no justification for the notion that women are inferior to men. However, Buddhism was born and took root in ancient and medieval societies that held traditional … [ Read More ]
A new audiobook and our latest free eBook
A new audiobook One of our best-selling titles has just been released as an audiobook. It’s the award-wining Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction by Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara) and Dr Paramabandhu Groves. Human nature has an inbuilt tendency towards addiction. Many of us self-medicate in response to hardships, turning to food, … [ Read More ]
A heads up about an issue with our email
We currently have an issue with our email. Many of the messages we are sending are either being returned to us undelivered or are being sent to the recipient’s junk folder. This applies to automatic emails sent by our website (for example, when you place an order) as well as responses to customer enquiries. If you’ve … [ Read More ]
Another free eBook and three more news bites
This week we have four news bites to share. Our latest free eBook: Female Deities in Buddhism This week we’re offering another free eBook: Female Deities in Buddhism by Vessantara. Female deities in Buddhism take many forms: queens and old crones, Buddhas and goddesses, mothers and wild women. Enter the magical realm of gently compassionate … [ Read More ]
Our latest free eBook and how you can support us through the lockdown
With new lockdown measures coming into effect in the UK, we’ve been thinking about how we might support you through the lockdown, and also how you might support us. How we’re supporting you This week we’re offering another free eBook. We’ve chosen Teachers of Enlightenment by Kulananda. The defining act of being a Buddhist is … [ Read More ]
A new reprint, November’s sale and another free eBook
We’ve got three new offerings for you this week. A new reprint For quite some time one of Triratna’s core texts, Sangharakshita’s The Ten Pillars of Buddhism, has been out of print and has only been available as an eBook. We’re pleased to let you know that it’s now back in print. In The Ten … [ Read More ]
Our latest eBook giveaway: ‘A Survey of Buddhism’
For the next two weeks we’re giving away the eBook edition of a ground-breaking text that has inspired readers for decades: Sangharakshita’s A Survey of Buddhism. The great Buddhist teacher and writer Lama Anagarika Govinda wrote, ‘It would be difficult to find a single book in which the history and development of Buddhist thought has been … [ Read More ]
We’re offering another free eBook
Those of you who’ve been enjoying the free eBooks we’ve been giving away since March will be pleased to learn that we’re giving away another one. This time it’s the turn of one of Sangharakshita’s classics, The Bodhisattva Ideal. How can we be happy and at the same time responsive to the suffering of others? … [ Read More ]
Another new release and this month’s discounted paperbacks
We’re thrilled to announce the release of It’s Not Out There: How to see differently and live an extraordinary, ordinary life by Danapriya. ‘Buy one for everyone you know who is serious about life and how to live it well.’ – Subhadramati, author of Not About Being Good ‘A starter-kit for making the most of … [ Read More ]
Hot off the press: ‘Introducing Mindfulness’
We’re delighted to introduce you to the newly published Introducing Mindfulness: Buddhist Background and Practical Exercises by Bhikkhu Anālayo. Anālayo has been writing about mindfulness as a scholar, practitioner and meditation teacher for two decades. In 2004 we published his ground-breaking study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta based on his comparative studies of early Buddhist texts. … [ Read More ]