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Although knowledge of Buddhism's institutions and practices has grown rapidly in the West since World War II, familiarity with its primary scriptures has been hampered by stylistic features that render them unduly voluminous and expensive. This book addresses that problem by transcribing elements of the Pali Canon into modern verse, the aim being both to clarify its central teachings and to retell the inspirational narrative to which those teachings are linked.

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David Evans has been in contact with British Buddhism since the 1950s and has undertaken chaplaincy work with prison inmates and hospital patients at various times. He has also represented Buddhism on Leeds Advisory Council for Religious Education between 1989 and 1998. He has previously published translations from the Pali under the title The Discourses of Gotama Buddha: Middle Collection (Janus, 1992).

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