50 Years, 50 Voices is our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

This week we are delighted to release the first extracts from the recordings commissioned. And most fittingly these are by Ananda, one of the very first batch of Order members ordained in 1968. Here he is talking delightfully about his first meeting with Sangharakshita and his own quest for an exotic, magical way in to spiritual life...

You can hear more from this session here.

For each voice, we'll be releasing key excerpts and, in time, also podcasting the full-length interviews and conversations recorded for the project.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit 50 Years, 50 Voices and + follow to get notified whenever a new voice is released.

Listen to Ananda talking about the early days of recording talks for the FWBO/Triratna

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