The Path of the Buddha: Buddhism Interpreted by Buddhists
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986.
Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". x, 432pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and toning to covers. Creasing to corners and edges. Sunning to spine. Price sticker to rear cover. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Small tears to top edges of first couple pages. Very light foxing to front free endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This book presents Buddhism from the Buddhist point of view. It is an earnest attempt of eleven devout Buddhist scholar s to describe the beliefs and practices of the Buddhist world twenty-five centuries after the Buddha. The need for such a book grew out of conversations among fellows of the National Council of UAS on Religion in Higher Education. It was agreed that a fuller understanding of the leading non-Christian reigions requires books written by men speaking from the point of view of their own faiths, and edited by a Westerner to make the meaning clear to readers brought up in the Greek-Hebrew-Christian Tradition. Bhikhu J.Kashyap of India has contributed the first chapter on the origin and expansion of buddhism. U.Thittila of Rengoon wrote the second chapter on the fundamental principles of the Theravada Buddhism. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya of Ceylon who wrote the third chapter was recommended as a man who can speak for all Thravada countries.(Publisher). Good / good. Item #8491
ISBN: 8120800303
Price: $25.00