From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 03:34:36 GMT
I found another one:
Keown, Damien Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
The "Very Short Introduction" series is a very prestigious and
well-received series of books (i.e. its readership in academic circles is
wide and its use in academic circles is great). He says, "perhaps more
than any other single work Robert M. Persig's [sic] Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) -- although more concerned with Western
philosophy than Zen -- has ensured that this school of Buddhism is widely
known in the West, at least by name."
Oh, and Pirsig graces the cover of Steve Hagen's Buddhism: Plain and Simple
saying of it, "This is the clearest and most precise exposition of Buddhism
I have ever read. If you're looking for enlightenment rather than just
scholarly knowledge, you'd better read this."
Hagen's book is pretty good, by the way.
Matt
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