The Buddha's Path to Awakening
$57.59
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
22 September 2025
Summary
The Buddha as man, animal, and god on the path to enlightenment.
According to ancient traditions, it takes countless lifetimes to become a Buddha. The Buddha’s own path to complete awakening was chronicled in five hundred and forty-seven stories known as the jātakas, which underwent numerous adaptations in the centuries after the Buddha’s lifetime. In the fifth or sixth century CE, in the region known as present-day Sri Lanka, an anonymous author wrote an int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674296527 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0674296524 |
| Author: | Sarah Shaw |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 22 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Murty Classical Library of India |
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Critics Review
Shaw’s translation and commentary restore the moral force of these past-life narratives and remind us that the Buddha’s path to enlightenment was often imagined as a long and hard road full of difficult choices and ethical quandaries. * Tricycle *
The Murty Classical Library of India deserves kudos for producing such a fine work with the original Pali and the English translation on facing pages, bringing ancient wisdom to new audiences. – Chintan Girish Modi * The Hindu *
Sarah Shaw
Sarah Shaw is a faculty member in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.
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