- At the age of sixteen Dennis Lingwood discovered that he was - and always had been - a Buddhist. This realization was to act as the motive force behind a life in which Lingwood, now better known as Sangharakshita, has played a major part in the introduction of Buddhism to the West. - The Rainbow Road from Tooting Broadway to Kalimpong traces Sangharakshita's development from a childhood dominated by illness and books to homeless wandering and ordination as a Buddhist monk. It takes us from the streets of wartime London to the dusty villages, ashrams, and mountain caves of India. - Full of fascinating characters and keen insights, The Rainbow Road from Tooting Broadway to Kalimpong is as finely observed - and as entertaining - as a first-rate travel book. More than that, it is a remarkable and refreshingly candid record of a journey of spiritual exploration.- This Complete Works edition of the first volume of Sangharakshita's memoirs also contains a sequence of later writings in which he reminisces about his early life.
