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- Title: Understanding Buddhism
- Author : Perry Schmidt-Leukel
- Release Date : January 21, 2006
- Genre: Buddhism,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3004 KB
Description
Today Buddhism is often presented as a religion without dogmas and commandments, without God and without any need to believe, tolerating all and everything as no religion at all, but as a way of life most suitable to the needs of post-modern Westerners. But is this an accurate image? In this book Buddhism is introduced as a genuine religion, gentle and powerful, being as demanding as it is consoling. Buddhism is certainly not a theistic faith, but neither is it a form of atheism or materialism. Rather it is a challenge to both: a rich source of metaphysical, ethical and spiritual insight that has shaped and nourished countless generations of followers all over Asia and that is now taking firm roots in the West.