an end to suffering: the buddha in the world [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2013] PANKAJ MISHRA - Softcover

Pankaj Mishra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143421263 ISBN 13: 9780143421269

Publisher: Penguin Books India, 2013

Synopsis

About the book: an end to suffering: the buddha in the world is the buddha still relevant today and, if so, in what way? pankaj mishra tries to answer this question as he travels through poverty-ridden south asia to gilded europe and america along the way he discovers how buddhist thought has flowered even in a materialistic world, and reveals the parallels between the age of the buddha and the contemporary world a rich, challenging and deeply contemplative work, an end to suffering is regarded as many to be mishras masterpiece about the author: pankaj mishra pankaj mishra is the author of five books, most recently from the ruins of empire he writes for, among others, the new yorker, the new york review of books and the guardian review: it is a tribute to mishras ability to link indias past to its present that he has turned a book on the buddha into a social commentary of immense urgency- aravind adiga, time three books disguised as one-succinct, lucid and coherent-and the story of som

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143421263
• ISBN 13: 9780143421269
• Binding: Paperback