Heritage of the Bhikkhu (eBook)

The Buddhist Tradition of Service

Walpola Rahula (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2003
208 Seiten
Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-8021-9811-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A classic guide to the life of service and meditation practiced by Buddhist monks.   Walpola Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught is a perennial backlist bestseller and has proven to be an indispensable guide to beginning Buddhism. It is renowned for its authoritative, clear, logical, and comprehensive approach. The Heritage of the Bhikkhu is a vivid account of the Buddhist’s monk’s role as a servant to people’s needs as a follower and teacher of the basic Buddhist principles. In this fascinating and informative volume, the author emphasizes Buddhism as a practical doctrine for daily living and spiritual perfection and not simply a monastic discipline. The Heritage of the Bhikkhu is a pioneering work that deserves to stand with the author’s earlier masterpiece.

Autor

The Venerable Dr. Walpola Sri Rahula, was a Buddhist monk and scholar who received monastic training and education in Sri Lanka. He held positions at leading monasteries and universities. He died in 1997.

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• ISBN-10: 0-8021-9811-2 / 0802198112
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9811-2 / 9780802198112