Published works
Subhuti's books include Sangharakshita: A New Voice in the Buddhist Tradition, which explores what Sangharakshita has contributed to the practice of Buddhism and the spread of Buddhism in the West. He has also published The Buddhist Vision (an introductory book on Buddhism), Bringing Buddhism to the West (a short biography of Sangharakshita), Buddhism for Today, Women, men, and angels, and Buddhism and Friendship. Subhuti argues that "sexual interest on the part of a male order member for a male mitra (younger, inexperienced student of Buddhism) can create a connection which may allow kalyana mitrata (spiritual friendship) to develop". He goes on to claim that while "some, of course, are predisposed to this attraction, others have deliberately chosen to change their sexual preferences in order to use sex as a medium of kalyana mitrata" (spiritual friendship). He also suggests that "male-female relationships … are probably not particularly spiritually productive", and he speaks "of the dangers of male-female relationships". Those who cannot follow such ideas, he suggests, are blocked by "taboo" or a "reluctance to give up a conditioned predisposition", ==References==