Overview
Eknath Easwaran, translator of the bestsellingedition of the Dhammapada, offers his interpretation of a wellknown,powerful Buddhist scripture.For Easwaran, the Dhammapada is a perfect map for the spiritual journey. Said to be the scripture closest to theBuddha's actual words, it is a collection of short teachings memorized during his lifetime by his close disciples.This ancient text reveals a world that is remarkably like ours less populated and polluted, but facing the sameviolence, greed, and suffering that we read in our media headlines. The Buddha's own life was fraught withchallenges, and his timeless appeal lies not just in his deep warmth and wisdom but also in his realism andemphasis on selfreliance.
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Author: Eknath Easwaran
Publisher: Nilgiri Press
Imprint: Nilgiri Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 20.60cm
Weight: 0.368kg
ISBN: 9781586380977
ISBN 10: 1586380974
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 14 November 2013
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Our favorite translation is Eknath Easwaran's The Dhammapada. His Indian heritage, literary gifts, and spiritual sensibilities here produce a sublime rendering of the words of the Buddha. Verse after verse shimmers with quiet, confident authority. <br>- Huston Smith & Philip Novak, <br>[Reviewing Easwaran's translation, The Dhammapada, in Buddhism ]<br>
Our favorite translation is Eknath Easwaran's The Dhammapada. His Indian heritage, literary gifts, and spiritual sensibilities here produce a sublime rendering of the words of the Buddha. Verse after verse shimmers with quiet, confident authority. - Huston Smith & Philip Novak, [Reviewing Easwaran's translation, The Dhammapada, in Buddhism ]
Author Information
Eknath Easwaran (19101999) grew up in India and studied both Sanskrit and Pali, the simplified version of Sanskrit that was spoken by the Buddha. He was chairman of the English department at a major Indian university when he came to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship in 1959. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in California, and in 1967, at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught the first academic course on meditation ever offered for credit at a major American university. From the mid 1970s onwards, Easwaran held classes on the core Buddhist scripture, the Dhammapada, in addition to his talks on meditation, world mysticism, and spiritual living. A gifted teacher, he was able to anticipate the problems that Western readers may have with the concepts underlying the classics of Indian spirituality, and to explain them in fresh and profoundly simple ways. Easwaran's translations of the Indian classics, the Dhammapada, The Bhagavad Gita, and The Upanishads, are all best-selling editions in English. His books have been translated into 16 languages, and more than 2 million copies are in print.
