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  A Life of the Buddha by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
The Awakened One - A Life of the Buddha by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
 
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."

This new edition of the book previously entitled The Awakened One has been updated to include a short history of Buddhism as well as a selection of resources for further reading.

Sherab Chodzin Kohn has been teaching Buddhism and meditation worldwide since 1973. A close student of Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, he has edited a number of his teacher's books.

158 pages. Paperback.

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