GREAT DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy [The Teachings of the Buddha]
Language: English
Published by Wisdom Publications (2006), Boston, MA, 2006
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- Title
- GREAT DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy [The Teachings of the Buddha]
- Author
- Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker; edited by Hellmuth Hecker
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications (2006), Boston, MA
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good/NO DUSTJACKET
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0861713818
- ISBN 13
- 9780861713813
- Illustrator
- Not Illustrated
- Series
- Book 7 of 10: The Teachings of the Buddha
- Seller catalogs
- Religion-Buddhism
A perennial favourite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-
selling Teachings of the Buddha series. Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the material in these stories has never before been assembled in a single volume. Through these engaging tales, we meet all manner of human beings - rich, poor, male, female, young, old - whose unique stories are told with an eye to the details of ordinary human concerns. When read with careful attention, these stories can sharpen our understanding of the Buddhist path by allowing us to contemplate the living portraits of the people who fulfilled the early Buddhist ideals of human perfection. The characters detailed include:
- Sariputta
- Nanda
- Mahamoggallana
- Mahakassapa
- Ananda
- Isidasi
- Anuruddha
- Mahakaccana
- Angulimala
- Visakha
- and many more.
Conveniently annotated with the same system of sutta references used in each of the other series volumes, Great Disciples of the Buddha allows the reader to easily place each student in the larger picture of Buddha's life. It is a volume that no serious student of Buddhism should miss.
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About the Author
Hellmuth Hecker is a leading German writer on Buddhism and a translator from the Pali Canon. His books include a german translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (parts 4 and 5) a two-volume chronicle on Buddhism in Germany, and a biography of Ven. Nyanatiloka Mahathera, the first German Buddhist monk.
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City, born in 1944. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. After completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998). From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German monk, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (1901-1994), at the Forest Hermitage. He returned to the U.S. in 2002. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Sa?yutta Nikaya, 2000), and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (A?guttara Nikaya, 2012). In 2008, together with several of his students, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi founded Buddhist Global Relief, a nonprofit supporting hunger relief, sustainable agriculture, and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition.
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