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Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1592572774
ISBN 13: 9781592572779
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd.
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.362 pounds

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Enlightenment has never been easier?with this updated guide.

There?s more to Buddhism than meditation and mantras?and this fully updated guide is what every reader needs on the path to enlightenment. With expanded information on the practice of Buddhism in the United States and the West, a greater focus on the relationship between Buddhism and Islam, and the effects of Buddhism on Christianity and Judaism, this book explores the easy ways readers can make Buddhism a part of their daily lives.

? Includes expanded appendixes featuring a timeline showing the evolution of Buddhism through history
? Covers all four schools of Buddhism?Zen, Tibetan, Pure Land, and Insight Meditation
? Expanded section on ?rites of passage? shows how a new generation has taken to Buddhism

About the Authors

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, Koreas 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.

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.

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