Buddha

Name: Buddha
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ISBN: 9780143034360

ISBN-10: 0143034367

ISBN-13: 9780143034360

Edition: 2001

Authors: Karen Armstrong

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With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered penetrating, readable, and prescient (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddhashe turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death. Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.03" wide x 6.95" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396

Karen Armstrong is one of the foremost commentators on religious affairs in both Britain and the United States. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun and received a degree at Oxford University.



Introduction



Renunciation



Quest



Enlightenment



Dhamma



Mission



Parinibbana


Notes


Glossary