Long Discourses of the Buddha
Translation of the "Digha-Nikaya"
$118.46
- Hardcover
656 pages
- Release Date
15 June 1995
Summary
This book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection–among the oldest records of the historical Buddha’s original teachings, given in India two and a half thousand years ago–consists of thirty-four longer-length suttas, or discourses, distinguished as such from the middle-length and shorter suttas of the other collections.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780861711031 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0861711033 |
| Author: | Maurice O'C. Walshe |
| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Wisdom Publications,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 June 1995 |
| Weight: | 998g |
| Series: | Teachings of the Buddha |
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Critics Review
“This is an amazing work that speaks to us across 2500 years… Each person who undertakes to read and study The Long Discourses of the Buddha will, I believe, open up new paths of thought and new and precious insights into the depths of Buddhist history and thought.”– “Mountain Record”
Maurice O'C. Walshe
Maurice Walshe was born in London in 1911 and was an active Buddhist from 1951 until the end of his life in 1998. He served as the Vice-President of the Buddhist Society and Chair of the English Sangha Trust. A scholar of Pali and German, his other works include Buddhism for Today and translations of the sermons of Meister Eckhart.
Ajahn Sumedho has embodied the Buddha’s way for nearly fifty years. As a young man he completed an M.A. at the University of California at Berkeley, was a medic in the Navy, and taught in the Peace Corps in Borneo. For twelve years, beginning in 1966, he studied closely with the renowned meditation master Ajahn Chah, who appointed him to be the first Western abbot of a Thai monastery. Now based in England, he is the spiritual head of a global community of monks and nuns.
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