DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Buddhists

Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners

Todd Lewis editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:30th May '14

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Buddhists cover

Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners provides a series of case studies of Asian and modern Western Buddhists, spanning history, gender, and class, whose lives are representative of the ways in which Buddhists throughout time have embodied the tradition.

  • Portrays the foundational principles of Buddhist belief through the lives of believers, illustrating how the religion is put into practice in everyday life
  • Takes as its foundation the inherent diversity within Buddhist society, rather than focusing on the spiritual and philosophical elite within Buddhism
  • Reveals how individuals have negotiated the choices, tensions, and rewards of living in a Buddhist society
  • Features carefully chosen case studies which cover a range of Asian and modern Western Buddhists
  • Explores a broad range of possible Buddhist orientations in contemporary and historical contexts
  • <

“…this volume goes far in filling this lacuna in our teaching resources by presenting a series of biographies of Buddhists that demonstrates the way in which they try and live their lives asBuddhists.”  (H-Net.org, 1 June 2015)

ISBN: 9780470658178

Dimensions: 252mm x 178mm x 21mm

Weight: 703g

352 pages