He walked the earth 2,500 years ago, not a god, but a man. Yet we ask the question "Who is the Buddha?" as if he were eternal, timeless. How can this be? In Who is the Buddha? a leading Western Buddhist examines this question from several different angles. He introduces the historical Hindu warrior prince, Siddhartha Gautama, who went out in search of truth and struggled to understand the mysteries of life, suffering, and death. He also views the Buddha in the context of human evolution, in the context of karma and rebirth, in the context of time, and in the context of eternity.Because he had the courage to make the journey into the heart of life and to describe the path he took, the Buddha made it possible for anyone to attain what he attained by following his example. Who is the Buddha? traces the Buddha's path, explains the significance of events and insights he experienced along the way, and offers guidance for those on their own quest toward enlightenment. It reveals the hidden teachings of the Buddha's early life, clarifies the meaning of the heroic ideal in Buddhism, and through the Buddha's words, and offers inspiration and hope. Who is the Buddha? The answer is a journey, and the journey starts within.

Who Is the Buddha

Sangharakshita

Barnes&Noble

Mind, reactive and creative

Religion & Spirituality

Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

Essence of Zen

Windhorse Publications

The Three Jewels

Windhorse

Who is the Buddha?

Buddhism

Windhorse Pubns

Meaning of Orthodoxy in Buddhism: a Protest

Ambedkar and Buddhism

On the morning of 14 Octobe 1956,at a mass rally in the Indian town of Nagpur, rour hundred men and women turned their backs on a millennium of degradation and slavery. Finally renouncing Hinduism, with its cruel system of `graded inequality, they turned instead to Buddhism, in search of dignity, hope and a psth to self-improvemsent. Over the coming months, Hindu India shook as hundreds of thousands more followed their example, and as the Buddha Dhamma came back to life in the land of its birth. The man solely responsible for this historic revival was Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar; politician, and educationalist; India`s first law Minister, chief architect of her constitution- and lifelong hampion of her downtrodden million.

This is a manifesto for a radical appraisal of art and religion which shows how the two are inextricably linked. These essays reveal a bridge between Buddhism and Western culture, and a glimpse of the inspiring possibilities of the artistic life.

Religion of Art

Arts & Photography

Religious

Sangharakshita's "history" of how his radical understanding that the monastic life-style and the spiritual life are not identical deepened through his encounters with Burmese monks, Tibetan lamas, and the new Buddhists of India.

History of My Going for Refuge

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

A Guide to the Buddhist Path

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