Buddha (Lives)
ISBN:
9780753821428 (0753821427)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Religion,
Philosophy,
India,
Asia,
Spirituality,
Theology,
Buddhism
A biography of the Buddha that provides useful historical context for both his distress and his subsequent teachings. Armstrong situates the Buddha's ideas and practices in the preceding religious cultures, the shift from agricultural/pastoral society, and the Axial shift of world view occurring in ...
Twenty-five years ago or so I read Gore Vidal's Creation and my perception of the Buddha has been fatefully tainted ever since. Cyrus Spitama, the novel's protagonist and the grandson of Zoroaster, finds himself in India at one point and has an opportunity to meet Gautama:We followed Sariputra up th...
A stupid cow wrote this book about her stupid view on Buddha. Don't read it, a google search would give you more information about Buddha than whatt this bitch said in so many pages.
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