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"The N>ok is a luminous account, within the reach of everybody, of the fundamental principles of the Buddhist doctrine.' Thus Professor Demieville describes the book in his introduction.
Acclaimed since its first publication in hardcovers as an authoritative and clear account of tb.: teaching of the Buddha and the phUosophy of Buddhism this book has since been translated into French, German, Spanish, Sinhalese, Chinese and Burmese.
The present edition has been revised and expanded to contain a selection of illustrative texts from the Suttas and the Dhammapada specially translated by the author.
The author, the Venerable ^r- Walpola Rahula, is a renowned Buddhist scholar-monk from Sri Lanka. In this book i.e analyses the teachings of the Buddha embodied in the original sources, relating his analysis to life in the world today.
*A model of what a book should be. . . . Authoritative and clear, logical and sober, this study is as comprehensive as it is masterly,' says Dr. I. B....
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Fülszöveg
"The N>ok is a luminous account, within the reach of everybody, of the fundamental principles of the Buddhist doctrine.' Thus Professor Demieville describes the book in his introduction.
Acclaimed since its first publication in hardcovers as an authoritative and clear account of tb.: teaching of the Buddha and the phUosophy of Buddhism this book has since been translated into French, German, Spanish, Sinhalese, Chinese and Burmese.
The present edition has been revised and expanded to contain a selection of illustrative texts from the Suttas and the Dhammapada specially translated by the author.
The author, the Venerable ^r- Walpola Rahula, is a renowned Buddhist scholar-monk from Sri Lanka. In this book i.e analyses the teachings of the Buddha embodied in the original sources, relating his analysis to life in the world today.
*A model of what a book should be. . . . Authoritative and clear, logical and sober, this study is as comprehensive as it is masterly,' says Dr. I. B. Horner, President of the Pali Text Society, in her review in The Middle Way, journal of the Buddhist Society, London.
The book contains seventeen plates of reproductions of Buddhist art.
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