The Buddha's Journey Home: New Buddhist Fables

Title

en_US The Buddha's Journey Home: New Buddhist Fables

Description

en_US Language note: English

en_US Second edition

en_US Robert W. Long

Creator

en_US Long, Robert W.

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:01Z

en_US 2008-06

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 2005

Abstract

en_US The T of C on 6-7 gives four sections, with fifteen stories in each: Travel Fables, Animal Fables, Villages and Towns, and The Buddha's Parables. Lulu.com is, according to their website, the global leader in self-publishing. This is really a book of anecdotes -- about Buddha's trip back home when he was forty, as the foreword (4-5) explains. I have read the first eighteen, and have at last bumped into a fable. The Deer's Desires (27) tells the story of the deer who wanted a rider. He got the rider and lost his freedom. The Aesopic version of this fable may help readers by giving a reason for the animal's desire: there the horse desires to avenge himself against the stag. He does get revenge but loses his freedom, as does the deer here. Even the animal fables are told as anecdotes from Buddha's life. The first two anecdotes are incomplete: they are not a good first advertisement for Lulu's publishing! The black-and-white pictures have a strange effect. Many seem either elongated or pixelated. They are taken, apparently, from traditional Japanese artists, listed with their work in the List of Illustrations on 79-86.

Identifier

en_US 9781411656383

en_US 6957 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82262

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Lulu Publications

en_US Morrisville, NC

Subject

en_US BQ4012.L66 2006

en_US Life of Buddha

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole