pdf Buddhism: A Concise Introduction مجانا للكاتب هوستن سميث
This book reconceives the chapter on Buddhism from Huston Smith’s The World’s Religions and takes advantage of the additional space a book provides to go deeper into Buddhism’s basics. Most important here, Theravada Buddhism (which was overshadowed by Mahayana when The World’s Religions was written) is brought closer to getting its due. Then, on these foundations the book erects a second story, so to speak. The second half of the book, entirely new, tells the story of Buddhism’s migration to the West, particu- larly to America. In this happily co-authored book, the authors have worked over every page together with Smith taking the lead in its first half and Novak in its second. Then, for reasons that will be noted in due course, the lead swings back to Smith who wrote the Afterword on Pure Land Buddhism.