Buddha
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Penguin Book 2001Description: xxix,205 pISBN: 9780143034360Subject(s): Gautama BuddhaDDC classification: 294.363 Summary: 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 Buddha she 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 engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Kannur University Central Library Stack | 294.363 ARM/B (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 52730 |
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294.35 VAS/E Ethics in Buddhism | 294.35677 DAN Dāna : reciprocity and patronage in Buddhism | 294.35691 ECO Ecological perspectives in Buddhism | 294.363 ARM/B Buddha | 294.363 THO/L Life of Buddha: As legend and history | 294.36570954 BUD Buddhist monasteries of South Asia and China | 294.382 325 JAT The jatakas birth stories of the bodhisatta / |
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 Buddha she 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 engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.
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