An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312425098ISBN-10:312425090UPC:9780312425098Book Category:Religion, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Buddhism, Religious, Religion, Politics & StateSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCFPT0W1QZ
An End to Suffering is a search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow.
Pankaj Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among Islamists and the emerging Hindu middle class, exploring the myths and places of the Buddha's life. He discusses Western explorers' "discovery" of Buddhism in the nineteenth century. He also considers the impact of Buddhist ideas on such modern politicians as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. As he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra ultimately reaches an enlightenment of his own by discovering the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in this "unusually discerning, beautifully written, and deeply affecting reflection on Buddhism" (Booklist).Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312425098ISBN-10:312425090UPC:9780312425098Book Category:Religion, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Buddhism, Religious, Religion, Politics & StateSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCFPT0W1QZ
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Granta, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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