List of illustrations
List of maps
Acknowledgements
Note on citations and pronunciation
1: Buddhism and elephants
2: The Buddha
3: Karma and rebirth
4: The Four Noble Truths
5: The Mahayana
6: The spread of Buddhism in Asia
7: Meditation
8: Ethics
9: Buddhism in the West
Timeline
Further Reading
Index
Damien Keown is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, London. He is Founding co-editor of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is also the author of Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2005) and co-editor of Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (Routledge, 2007). He is now retired.
`Review from previous edition Damien Keown ... His short account
has been tried out in draft on students and is admirably lucid,
anticipating and dealing well with the questions that are bound to
come up.'
Roger Farrington, The Middle Way, Vol. 71, No. 4, February 1997
`Damien Keown's book is a readable and wonderfully lucid
introduction to one of mankind's most beautiful, profound, and
compelling systems of wisdom. His impressive powers of explanation
help us to come to terms with a vital contemporary reality.'
Bryan Appleyard
`an excellent and highly readable account of a complex and
multifarious subject. Even if you were to read nothing else, you
would probably come away with a fair idea of what Buddhism is all
about.'
Looi Siew Tip, New Straits Times
`impressive'
Sarah Marriott, Irish Times 13/5/00
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