Buddhism

Winston L. King

Apr 2006 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Ben Kingsley

About this audiobook

Buddhism began with Gotama the Buddha in the sixth century BCE and has developed two chief forms. Theravada (or Hinayana) is found especially in Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand; Mahayana is found in Japan, China, Korea, and Indochina. Zen, a more recent form of Buddhism, is found throughout the world. Some believe Buddhism is not properly understood as a religion, though this presentation describes its religious qualities: a belief in transcendent reality, sacred scriptures, monastic life, and views on an afterlife and the goal of human existence.

The Religion, Scriptures, and Spirituality series describes the beliefs, religious practices, and spiritual and moral commitments of the world's great religious traditions. It also describes a religion's way of understanding scripture, identifies its outstanding thinkers, and discusses its attitude and relationship to society.

Ratings and reviews

Stay intuitive and learn around the mistakes of the past and present minds that manipulate this information. Such a beautiful concept that is finding its way back around. Honest Truth never dies and just cycles itself back around. Religions are only partial truths and that is why they have to adapt along with people because the places they speak from are much more complicated than any rational mind can comprehend.❤🧠🌌 No religion or myth is wrong, but neither are they entirely correct. Everything is a fingerprint of spiritual work, take a step back and see them all as one, and not stand so close that you see one as all.

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About the author

Dr. Winston L. King is professor emeritus of Vanderbilt University. He has had extended firsthand contact with Buddhism in Burma and Japan and is the author of a number of books on religion as a cultural phenomenon.

Ben Kingsley is a distinguished veteran of stage and screen. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in Ghandi, and has starred in other memorable films, such as Bugsy, Sneakers, and Schindler’s List.