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What the Buddha Taught

By: Walpola Rahula

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“A terrific introduction to the Buddha’s teachings.” —Paul Blairon, California Literary Review This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, “the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills the need as only could be done by one having a firm grasp of the vast material to be sifted. It is a model of what a book should be that is addressed first of all to ‘the educated and intelligent reader.’ Authoritative and clear, logical and sober, this study is as comprehensive as it is masterly.” This edition contains a selection of illustrative texts from the Suttas and the Dhammapada (specially translated by the author), sixteen illustrations, and a bibliography, glossary, and index. “[Rahula’s] succinct, clear overview of Buddhist concepts has never been surpassed. It is the standard.” —Library Journal

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0802198104

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9780802198105

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By: Walpola Rahula

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The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

The Buddhist Tradition of Service

By: Walpola Rahula

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The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

The Buddhist Tradition of Service

By: Walpola Rahula

A classic guide to the life of service and meditation practiced by Buddhist monks. Walpola Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught is a perennial backlist bestseller and has proven to be an indispensable guide to beginning Buddhism. It is renowned for its authoritative, clear, logical, and comprehensive approach. The Heritage of the Bhikkhu is a vivid account of the Buddhist’s monk’s role as a servant to people’s needs as a follower and teacher of the basic Buddhist principles. In this fascinating and informative volume, the author emphasizes Buddhism as a practical doctrine for daily living and spiritual perfection and not simply a monastic discipline. The Heritage of the Bhikkhu is a pioneering work that deserves to stand with the author’s earlier masterpiece.

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802198112

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What the Buddha Taught

By: Paul Demieville,Walpola Rahula

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What the Buddha Taught

By: Paul Demieville,Walpola Rahula

The Book is a luminious account of fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine

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Motilal Banarsidass

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8120841077

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9788120841079

The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

The Buddhist Tradition of Service

By: Walpola Rahula

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The Buddhist Tradition of Service

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The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America

By: Bhante Walpola Piyananda

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The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America

By: Bhante Walpola Piyananda

Truth is regularly stranger than fiction for the abbot of a Buddhist temple in the far-from-tranquil inner city of Los Angeles, California. Whether he is talking a dangerously unbalanced man out of buying a gun, confronting a naked woman in his meditation hall, or helping gamblers reform, Bhante Walpola Piyananda demonstrates that every experience can be an opportunity for learning and appreciating the Buddha's teachings. Bhante Piyananda also reflects on social and political issues such as the racial tension in his neighborhood after the Rodney King trial and the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afganistan.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834823446

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9780834823440

Saffron Days in L.A.

Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America

By: Bhante Walpola Piyananda

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Saffron Days in L.A.

Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America

By: Bhante Walpola Piyananda

In this delightful memoir, Bhante Walpola Piyananda, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka, shares his often amusing, often poignant experiences of life in America. Whether he's reasoning with a group of confrontational punks on Venice Beach, bridging the gap between a rebellious teenager and her traditional parents, explaining to an errant Buddhist that the concept of "non-attachment" does not justify irresponsibility, or dealing with a nude sunbather at a meditation retreat, no situation—no matter how sticky—manages to affect Bhante's unflappable calm or his phenomenal ability to find the right parable for the moment. Bhante Walpola Piyananda, who is abbot of a Buddhist meditation center in L.A., has met and counseled a wide range of people—the disenfranchised of society, couples dealing with relationship issues, American Buddhists trying to reconcile their practice with their very Western lifestyles, recent immigrants struggling to assimilate but also maintain their traditional values. His stories reveal the complicated, joyous, painful, baffling, and inspiring aspects of the human condition and the power of true compassion.

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0834828812

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Saffron Days in L.A.

Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America

By: Bhante Walpola Piyananda

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By: Bhante Walpola Piyananda

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Book's by Walpola Rahula

What the Buddha Taught

What the Buddha Taught

What the Buddha Taught

What the Buddha Taught

The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

What the Buddha Taught

What the Buddha Taught

The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

The Heritage of the Bhikkhu

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

Saffron Days in L.A.

Saffron Days in L.A.

Saffron Days in L.A.

Saffron Days in L.A.

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