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Adventures with the Buddha by Jeffery Paine

Add to favorites  | Review or rate item  | Tell a friend Many Buddhist books will edify you, but will any entertain you? Here is an enthralling anthology of nine Western writer-adventurers who journeyed to India, Tibet, Nepal, China and Japan to study the various incarnations of Buddhism.

    

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Added:	10/5/2007
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	Jeffery Paine
Keywords:	buddhism, eastern religion

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Reviewer:  Publisher Weekly Rating:  Added on:  10/31/2007 Adventures with the Buddha by Jeffery Paine Starred Review. Many Buddhist books will edify you, Paine writes, but will any entertain you? Paine (Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West) here offers up an enthralling anthology of nine Western writer-adventurers who journeyed to India, Tibet, Nepal, China and Japan to study the various incarnations of Buddhism. The first five writers, including a disaffected Frenchwoman and a Dutch mystery novelist, tell of their experiences in Asia during the first half of the 20th century, when there were still tantalizing unexplored white spaces on the map. They reverently describe a wild and woolly land filled with magic: lamas discoursing via mental telepathy; almost-naked gurus meditating in icy caves for years at a time; Shangri-La landscapes filled with clanging processions of gaily-dressed pilgrims. The books second half features four contemporary American Buddhist writers such as Sharon Salzberg and Michael Roach. To one degree or another, they also share their experiences in Asia, but these writers main focus is the interior realm: how Buddhism has affected their own day-to-day emotional and spiritual lives—a familiar theme in current Buddhist writing, but one which these writers make fresh. Paines own contributions are limited to brief introductions, but these are lively and illuminating. Paines real genius, however, is constructing a cohesive, potent anthology that informs, delights and fires the imagination, a work that both recalls a lost world and illustrates its continued relevance today.

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