Adventures with the Buddha A Personal Buddhism Reader

Name: Adventures with the Buddha A Personal Buddhism Reader
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ISBN: 9780393327465

ISBN-10: 0393327469

ISBN-13: 9780393327465

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Authors: Jeffery Paine

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The flavor, the savor, and the sense of Buddhism as revealed through personal stories of Westerners who lived it. Many books on Buddhism will edify you, but will they entertain you? Here, finally, is a book that yields an understanding of Buddhismnot by its metaphysics or rituals but through real characters and true stories as dramatic as those in the most imaginative novel. Jeffery Paine has assembled the breathtaking adventures of nine Westerners who traveled in China, Tibet, and Japan, in Nepal and India, and in that new Buddhist frontier, America, chanced across Buddhism, and made it an integral part of their lives. Through vivid travel writing and gripping human tales, the reader is…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction : Buddhism as life adventure



Tibet as it once was




A Himalayan guru of the old style




The lost world of Chinese Buddhism




Taoism and/or Buddhism?




Reality in a Zen monastery




An African-American woman's journey into Buddhism




In search of women's wisdom




Suffering and its partial cure




The diamond sutra : the diamond business