The complete idiot's guide to Buddhism

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The complete idiot's guide to Buddhism
Gary Gach, Gary Gach
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The complete idiot's guide to Buddhism

3rd ed.
  • 2 Want to read

Reach Your Zen Moment!The latest edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Buddhism updates one of Alpha Books’s most successful books in the religion/spirituality category, providing extensive information on both understanding the teachings and schools of Buddhism and incorporating the tenets of Buddhism into everyday life. It also includes additional information on Buddhism’s effect on popular arts and sciences, the continuing relevance of the Dalai Lama, and an annotated bibliography. With Buddhism as one of America’s fastest growing religions, the audience continues to renew itself Covers all four schools of Buddhism: Zen, Tibetan, Pure Land, and Insight Meditation, which are not in competitors’ books For thousands of years, Buddhism has been a source of inner peace and security for millions

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English
Pages
387

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The complete idiot's guide to Buddhism
2009, Alpha
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The complete idiot's guide to Buddhism
2009, Alpha
in English - 3rd ed.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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2009, Alpha
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Table of Contents

PART 1: BUDDHA, SHOWING THE WAY: The teachings of a smile: the life of the Buddha
Different flavors, one taste: the teachings travel to different lands
Interfaith: same mountain, different trails
The newest petal of the lotus: Western Buddhism
PART 2: DHARMA: TRUTH, AND THE WAY TO TRUTH: Gem of refuge, ennobling truth
Buddha's way: the eightfold path
Take Karma, make Dharma: key points
Conscious conduct: precepts for a path with a heart
PART 3: SANGHA: JOINING THE PATH: Stepping into freedom: establishing a practice
Meditation: base camp
Look within: insight meditation
Gate to the source: Zen
The way is easy and wide: Buddha's pure land
Diamond way: Tibetan Buddhism
PART 4: BUDDHISM IN ACTION: APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Bringing it all back home: relations
It's not just a job, it's life itself: right livelihood
Food for the heart: the meal of life
Everybody's doing it: Buddhism and popular culture
Awakening ways of seeing and being: Dharma art
Life within us and without us: Buddhism and science
Is happiness an individual matter?: engaged Buddhism
APPENDIXES: A: Buddhism in a one-page book: quick reference
B: The vocabulary of silence: a Buddhist glossary
C. From the trees to thee: further reads.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-370) and index.

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New York
Other Titles
Complete idiot's guide, Buddhism

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.3 $b G115c3 $2 22
Library of Congress
BQ4022 .G33 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 387 p. :
Number of pages
387

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24073227M
ISBN 10
1592579116
ISBN 13
9781592579112
LCCN
2008941490

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