Common Buddhist Text: Guidance and Insight from the Buddha by Peter Harvey & Venerable Brahmapundit
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Overview: "Common Buddhist Text: Guidance and Insight from the Buddha" is one of the most extensive anthologies of translations from a wide variety of Buddhist scriptures and other key texts. The anthology summarizes all the major and important teachings Buddhism on a variety of subjects (the nature of Buddha, the nature of Dharma/Dhamma, social relationships, human life, karma, rebirth, nirvana, enlightenment, ethics and morality, wisdom, meditation, monastics vs. lay people, etc.). The texts are selected from and organized by the three major branches of Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Therefore, they represent the teachings of Buddhism as a whole instead of a particular branch or school.
This book is a project of the International Council for the Day of Vesak (ICDV), based at Mahachulalongkorn-rajavidyalaya University (MCU), Thailand, Vesak being the Buddhist festival celebrating the birth, enlightenment and final nirvana of the Buddha. The project’s aim is to distribute this book for free around the world, especially in hotels, so as to make widely available the rich resources found in the texts of the main Buddhist traditions relating to fundamental issues facing human beings. Through this, its objectives are to increase awareness among Buddhists of their own rich heritage of religious and ethical thinking as well as to increase understanding among non-Buddhists of the fundamental values and principles of Buddhism. It seeks to strike a balance between what is common to the Buddhist traditions and the diversity of perspectives among them.
The book consists of selected translations from Pāli, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan, using a common terminology in English of key Buddhist terms, and maintaining strict scholarly standards. It is to be published first in English and then into the other official UN languages as well as other languages of Buddhist countries.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy , Buddhism
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