Buddhist Spectrum: Contributions to Buddhist-Christian Dialogues (Perennial Philosophy Series): Contributions to the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue - Softcover

Pallis, Marco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941532402 ISBN 13: 9780941532402

Publisher: World Wisdom Books, 2004

Synopsis

A BUDDHIST SPECTRUM is at once one of the most readable works on Buddhism and a major work on comparative religion and living spirituality. It is the fruit of thought and meditations of a man whose authoritative exposition during several decades of religions in general and Buddhism in particular, especially in its Tibetan form, have had a profound influence upon many scholars and practitioners of religion in both East and West. The ten essays found in A BUDDHIST SPECTRUM cover a wide range of topics which are both specific to Buddhism as well as being pertinent to other religious traditions, most notably Christianity. Collectively they represent a crowning achievement of one of the most eminent traditionalist authors, and the only one of these who was formally attached to Buddhism. Pallis' writing, like Buddhism itself, possesses at the same time the gentleness of a flowing stream and the implacable rigour of a mountain. Like all of Pallis' books, A BUDDHIST SPECTRUM combines the wisdom gained from a lifetime of scholarship with the luminous insights of a seasoned spiritual traveller.

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About the Author

MARCO PALLIS was born in Liverpool in 1895, and served in the British army during World War I. In 1923 Pallis visited southern Tibet on a mountaineering trip, and he returned to the area in 1933 and 1936, consumed by an interest in its traditional culture, and stayed in monasteries in Sikkim and Ladakh. His other books include "The Way and the Mountain and "A Buddhist Spectrum. He died in 1990.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Wisdom Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941532402
• ISBN 13: 9780941532402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240