Buddhism: A Concise Introduction

Huston Smith · Philip Novak

Mar 2009 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

A concise and up-to-date guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism by two luminaries in the field of world religions.

Ratings and reviews

While I found the book to be a great, though sometimes dull introduction to the basics of Buddhism and the differences of Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, and various other schools of Buddhism... I think it's important to distinguish that it is not an infinite source of wisdom on any particular school. It's more informative and historical rather than insightful, though I found that to be exactly what I needed on my beginnings with Buddhism. Great place to start, highly recommended.

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About the author

Huston Smith is internationally known and revered as the premier teacher of world religions. He is the focus of a five-part PBS television series with Bill Moyers and has taught at Washington University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and the University of California at Berkeley. The recipient of twelve honorary degrees, Smith's fifteen books include his bestselling The World's Religions, Why Religion Matters, and his autobiography, Tales of Wonder.

Philip Novak is the Santo Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Dominican University in San Rafael, California, where he has taught for over twenty years, and the author of The World's Wisdom, a widely used anthology of the sacred texts of the world's religions and the companion reader to Huston Smith's The World's Religions.