Understanding the Buddha

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

"Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior" who is Buddha?This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling its most famous shortcuts. By following Gotama's "Spiritual Awakening" step by step, the author offers a stimulating look at the man whose emancipatory quest "heals the whole world", far from any reductive pessimistic asceticism.From the Enlightened One's contemporary Greeks to current scientific research, from Schopenhauer to Einstein, from Nietzsche to Levi-Strauss, this portrait of Buddha is also an illuminating account of the "elective affinities between Buddhism and the West" and of the constant influence the sage has exerted on our thinking.