Jeffery Paine, Editor
Adventures with the Buddha
A Buddhism Reader
The flavor, the savor and the sense
of Buddhism as revealed through
personal stories.
MANY BOOKS on Buddhism will edify you, but will
they entertain you? Here, finally, is a book that "eloquently
distills the essence of Buddhism through nine
of the greatest minds spanning three generations"
(Tulku Thondup, author of The Healing Power of Mind)
but also "delights and fires the imagination, a work
that both recalls a lost world and illustrates its continued
relevance today" (Publishers Weekly, starred
review).
Jeffery Paine has assembled the breathtaking
adventures of nine Westerners who traveled in China,
Tibet, and Japan, in Nepal and India, and in that new
Buddhist frontier, America, chanced across Buddhism,
and made it an integral part of their lives.
Through vivid travel writing and gripping human
tales, the reader is finally exposed not just to the theory
of Buddhist philosophy and practice but to what
it looks like from the inside.
JEFFERY PAINE is the author of Reenchantment
and Father India and is the editor of
The Poetry of Our World. He is former literary
editor of The Wilson Quarterly and lives in
Washington, DC.
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