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Cargando... Buddha (2011)por Axel Michaels
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Hauptbeschreibung: Mehr als 360 Millionen Menschen auf der Welt bekennen sich zum Buddhismus. Doch wer war der Buddha, dessen Lehre von der Überwindung allen Leidens sich ab dem 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. von Nordindien aus schnell in weiten Teilen Asiens verbreitete? Lässt sich seine Biographie historisch fassen? Was berichten die Legenden über sein Leben? Axel Michaels erzählt auf der Grundlage der ältesten buddhistischen Quellen die Lebensgeschichte des Siddhartha Gautama von der Geburtslegende über das Leben als Asket und die Erleuchtung unter dem Bodhi-Baum bis zur Gründung der ersten Gemeinde No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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After that, the author tries to pack all of the important aspects of the religion into the remaining pages, so it is very intense and condensed reading, made up of many lists. I appreciate that he supports everything with translated quotes from the canon, but I think that the space devoted to these quotes should rather have been used for explanations since the quotes do not really enhance the understanding but rather make it even harder.
The last part of the book deals with the different schools of Buddhism as well as its arrival in the Western countries, but again, the writing is very concise and it is hard to follow.
It is clear that the author is very knowledgeable and there are many important and interesting aspects, but the book should be double length (none of the books in this publisher series are more than 120 pages, so the length is not the author's fault). It serves its purpose as a rather academic overview or introduction, but if the reader wishes to understand more of the teachings, other books are more helpful. ( )