Nagarjuna's Precious Garland
Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation
$56.77
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2013
Summary
Nagarjuna is renowned for his penetrating analysis of reality. In the Precious Garland, he offers intimate counsel on how to conduct one’s life and how to construct social policies that reflect Buddhist ideals.
The advice for personal happiness is concerned first with improving one’s condition over the course of lifetimes, and then with release from all kinds of suffering, culminating in Buddhahood. Nagarjuna describes the cause and effect sequences for the development of happiness wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781559392747 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1559392746 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Hopkins |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Snow Lion Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 201mm x 228mm |
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Critics Review
“Recommended for all graduate and undergraduate library collections.“—Religious Studies Review
“Hopkins has done a magnificent job of translating Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland, making it even more accessible by describing Nagarjuna’s life and the themes of his text. Perfect Buddhist advice for living and liberation indeed.“—Mandala Magazine
Jeffrey Hopkins
Jeffrey Hopkins, PhD, served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.
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