Tooting Public Library
South London, England · c.1940
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51.42790°N, -0.16830°E
Key Facts
- ◆ Sangharakshita found the Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Wei Lang (Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch) here.
- ◆ The reading was an instantaneous recognition: he realised he had always been a Buddhist.
- ◆ This discovery in Tooting Public Library set the course of his entire life.
He found the Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Wei Lang on the shelves of Tooting Public Library while still a teenager, and reading them knew instantly — not as a new belief adopted, but as a recognition of something always true — that he was a Buddhist. It was the beginning of everything.
— The Rainbow Road
Source: The Rainbow Road
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