摘要：Sangharakshita.s pamphlet is the third in a series of what might betermed .position papers. that have been delivered to members of theWestern Buddhist Order at anniversary events over a period of eightyears. These papers, beginning with his .History of My Going for Refuge.in 1988 and followed by .My Relation to the Order. in 1990, mark an erain which Sangharakshita, as founder and head of the Order, has overseenthe reorganization of his movement (which also includes the Friends of theWestern Buddhist Order). Having passed his seventieth birthday,Sangharakshita is in the process of handing over his responsibilities to ateam of Order members. These papers represent a synthesis of ideas con-tained in his prolific output over several decades.The papers are aimed primarily at the more than six-hundred mem-bers of the Western Buddhist Order, most of whom are to be found in Brit-ain, with others in India, Europe, America, and Australasia. As succinctstatements setting out the basic principles of the WBO, the papers are alsoclearly intended for external consumption. The approach in all three is sys-tematic and didactic. Sangharakshita is a well-known critic of what he re-gards as erroneous, or misplaced beliefs and practices. He regards the Bud-dhist movement that he founded in London in 1967 as a force for correctingthese deficits and adopts a radically reformist position
