Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism

Gary Gach (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2005
Alpha (Verlag)
978-1-59257-277-9 (ISBN)

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A guide to understanding the teachings and schools of Buddhism, including tips on incorporating the tenets of Buddhism into everyday life. It includes information on the practice of Buddhism in the United States and the West, and a focus on the relationship between Buddhism and Islam, and the effect Buddhism has had on Christianity and Judaism.

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Buddhism, Second Edition is an updated and fresh guide to understanding the teachings and schools of Buddhism, including tips on incorporating the tenets of Buddhism into everyday life. New content includes (1) expanded information on the practice of Buddhism in the United States and the West (2) a greater focus on the relationship between Buddhism and Islam, and the effect Buddhism has had on Christianity and Judaism and (3) expanded appendices featuring a timeline showing the evolution of Buddhism through history.

Gary Gach has been a student of Buddhism for more than 40 years and is a consultant to the Buddhist Film Society as well as the Unified Buddhist Church. He is co-translator of Ko Un, Korea's greatest living Zen poet, and has worked as the Arts and Religion editor for AsianWeek and as a contributing editor to the San Francisco Review of Books. He is the editor of What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop. His articles have appeared in Shambhala Sun, New Asia Review, and Whole Earth Review, among others.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.1.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 231 mm
Gewicht	604 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-59257-277-4 / 1592572774
ISBN-13	978-1-59257-277-9 / 9781592572779
Zustand	Neuware