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9781570625510

The Awakened One

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  • ISBN13:

    9781570625510

  • ISBN10:

    1570625514

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2000-02-15
  • Publisher: Shambhala

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Summary

The story of the founder of Buddhism is one of the world's great archetypal tales of spiritual awakening. He was born Siddhartha Gautama in the sixth century BCE, the son of a prince who ruled a small kingdom in what is now Nepal. Siddhartha led a sheltered existence until the age of twenty-nine, when he left his life of ease and set out to find a solution to the problem of suffering. For years he wandered as a homeless ascetic, practicing severe austerities that brought him to the brink of death but no nearer to his goal. He then abandoned asceticism for a "middle way." Sitting down under a tree, he vowed to remain there until he realized the truth. After a night of deep meditation, his Enlightenment came at dawn, and he was thereafter known as the Buddha, the "Awakened One."

Author Biography

Sherab Ch÷dzin Kohn has been teaching Buddhism and meditation worldwide since 1973. A close student of the Tibetan meditation master Ch÷gyam Trungpa, he has edited several of Trungpa Rinpoche's books. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Birth, Youth, Renunciation
1(16)
Homelessness, Teachers, Asceticism
17(12)
Enlightenment
29(8)
Turning the Wheel
37(20)
Gathering the Sangha
57(20)
Establishing the Dharma
77(24)
Compassion's Ripeness
101(16)
Devadatta
117(14)
Last Years
131(22)
Notes 153

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