Understanding Buddhism: Origins * Beliefs * Practices * Holy Texts * Sacred Places - Softcover

Eckel, Malcolm David

 
9781907486142: Understanding Buddhism: Origins * Beliefs * Practices * Holy Texts * Sacred Places

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Buddhism today is one of the fastest-growing faiths in North America. The reasons can be found here, in this comprehensive introduction to the history, practices, and beliefs of a religion that seeks the ?Middle Way” between self-denying spirituality and the demands of everyday life.

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Malcolm David Eckel is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Core Curriculum at Boston University. He has lectured widely and contributed many articles to scholarly journals, and is the author of To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness and Bhaviveka and His Buddhist Opponents.

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