At Peace, Filled with Joy
Buddhist Wisdom from the Dhammapada
$40.47
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
What if your deepest struggles were the very ground from which authentic joy could grow? Through 57 carefully-selected verses, Zen master Cuong Lu draws on the ancient wisdom of the Dhammapada to give us a path through suffering to insight and compassionate action.
From a direct disciple of the great Thich Nhat Hanh comes a radical new way to approach suffering. Instead of burying or avoiding pain, author Cuong Lu uses the profound wisdom of the Dhammapada—the most widely known collec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781645474968 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1645474968 |
| Author: | Cuong Lu |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
“Cuong Lu’s commentary melds the austere, ancient, and intimate poetry of the Dhammapada with the tenderness of his Zen training and his own accessible heart.”
— Gregory Kramer, author of Insight Dialogue
Cuong Lu
CUONG LU is a Buddhist teacher, scholar, and writer. Born in Vietnam in 1968, he emigrated to the Netherlands with his family in 1980. He majored in East Asian studies at the University of Leiden.
In 1993, he was ordained a monk at Plum Village in France and became a disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2000, he was authorized by Thich Nhat Hanh to teach the Dharma in the Lieu Quan line of the Linji School of Zen Buddhism.
In 2009, Cuong Lu left Plum Village after sixteen years and returned to lay life in the Netherlands. He served as a chaplain in the Netherlands’ penitentiary system for six years. In 2015, he received a master’s degree in Buddhist Spiritual Care from the Free University in Amsterdam.
Cuong is the founder of the Mind Only Institute of Buddhist Psychology in the Netherlands and the No Word Zen Practice Center in France.
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