IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The first excerpt in a series of eight from Jack Kerouac's Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Austerities of the Bodhisattva
Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
A Prince Indeed
The Birth of Siddartha
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Man Who Woke Up
Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to Jesus asking what…
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Rolling the Wheel
This episode of the life of Shakyamuni Buddha, as retold by Nikkyo Niwano, starts in Bodh-gaya following the Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. The decision to turn the dharma wheel initiates a teaching mission that…
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Finger Bone Path of Angulimala
An excerpt from Old Path, White Clouds, in which the historical Buddha encounters the treacherous murderer Angulimala
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Opening the Door…
and letting the ladies in
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