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Title: Buddhist Scriptures (Penguin Classics) by Edward Conze ISBN: 0-14-044088-7 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1959 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book. Perfect selection of writings.
Comment: With this book is very easy know the basics of budhism and her differents traditions around the world. You find zen, theravada, chan, tibetan... and you reading different great masters of the buddhist history. In this times we don't find this quality. I love this book and I need write this) :)
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid Selection
Comment: I read this book for an upper division religious studies class in Buddhism at UC Davis. My limited knowledge of Buddhist Canon aside, this is a solid and concise collection of the most basic Buddhist scriptures that are common to almost all schools. In our class we studied Indian and Chinese Buddhism, and used this book in conjunction with Hirakawa Akira's well-known "A History of Indian Buddhism." The latter book is a very terse and informative synthesis of the life's work of one of Japan's most highly regarded scholars on Buddhism and is the kind of book that one might want to read alongside Conze for historical context. I say this because although Conze does give brief introductions to each translation, the average reader with little or no knowledge of the development of Buddhist canon will not walk away from this book alone with a very thorough knowledge of just what he or she is actually reading. That's not to say this book is "scholarly." On the contrary, Conze's translations are straightforward and easy to read, but you will get more out of this book if you already know at least a little about the history behind the writings.
Conze includes translations of works on such topics as: the Buddha's previous lives, the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, Buddhist doctrines, Meditation, Wisdom, doctrinal formulas, disputes, and future times and Buddhas. Some specific works include excerpts from the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Questions of King Milinda, and doctrinal formulas on faith, vigor, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom.
Rating: 4
Summary: A solid introduction
Comment: The translator, Edward Conze, in attempting to include what is common to most Buddhists rather than concentrating on what separates them, has made some difficult choices and has made them well. Though readability is not too highly stressed at the expense of accuracy, the resulting work is accessible to readers of varying education and interest levels. (Given the difficulty of the ideas expressed in many of the selections included, this is no small accomplishment.) I would recommend this book as an introduction to Buddhist thought and as an aid to further study (though I would not necessarily recommend it as an end to the matter for one whose interests tend toward the academic). The glossary and the list of sources included at the end are both quite helpful.
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Title: Upanishads (Penguin Classics) by Juan Mascaro ISBN: 0140441638 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1965 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Confucius: The Analects by Confucius ISBN: 0140443487 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula ISBN: 0802130313 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1974 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Juan Mascaro, Simon Brodbeck ISBN: 0140449183 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Rig Veda: An Anthology : One Hundred and Eight Hymns, Selected, Translated and Annotated (Classic) by Wendy Doniger, Thomas Wyatt, Wendy O'Flaherty ISBN: 0140444025 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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