Seven years ago, when Buddhist scholar and former monk Stephen Batchelor embarked on a search for the real Siddhartha Gautama, rooting through over 6,000 pages of the Pali Canon—the oldest set of ...
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Of all the biographers enlisted to write for the successful and acclaimed Penguin Lives series, none could have faced a harder job than Karen Armstrong. It’s not just that Siddhartha Gautama — known ...
How a book of poems written by Buddhist nuns over a 300-year period helps in understanding suffering
A spiritual quest to understand ageing, sickness and death – suffering – marked the beginning of a philosophical tradition that continues to influence people more than 2,500 years later. Siddhartha, ...
On the reading list this week is a book that repositions South Asia as democracy’s most vital terrain, a prison memoir on the relentless grind of injustice, and a classic volume on the life and ...
In spite of not having faith in Godlike Supreme Power, like Jainism, Buddhism has also made excellent contribution towards strengthening the Indian Way, particularly making it dynamic and in bringing ...
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