Gautama Buddha
The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Vishvapani Blomfield, 2011
416 pages
Read in 2020.02
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✔ A biography of Buddha as a person
✔ Life in India 2500 years ago
✔ Not much on the teaching but only historical facts
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★★★★☆ A sober biography of the Buddha as a person. It follows from his birth to death, through history and myth of 2500 years ago. A perfect introduction, to understand why Buddhism started there and then in India.
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A sort of biography of the Buddha as a person, and is trying its best to stay sober.
It's 2500 years ago so it is difficult to give a chronological order but it follows from his birth to death, with very good description to the background that is the Indian society which itself is mythical.
A perfect introduction, to understand why Buddhism started there in India.
It was a long read and a difficult one to follow (so many long names!) but now that I finished I miss reading it.
He was a fascinating person and definitely philosophical one which is why Buddhism is still spreading even in the West and is being re-imported back in India.
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