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Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
Contributor(s): Analayo, Bhikkhu (Author)
ISBN: 1909314722     ISBN-13: 9781909314726
Publisher: Windhorse Publications (UK)
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist)
Dewey: 294.344
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.41 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
 
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Praise for Analayo:

Serious meditation students will benefit tremendously from the clarity of understanding that Venerable Analayo's efforts have achieved.--Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

This book provides a practical guide for those facing disease and death by helping them to access the ageless wisdom of the Buddha's teaching.

Disease and death are undeniably integral parts of human life. Yet when they manifest we are easily caught unprepared. To prepare for these, we need to learn how to skillfully face illness and passing away. A source of practical wisdom can be found in the early discourses that record the teachings given by the Buddha and his disciples.

Analayo's chief aim is to provide a collection of passages taken from the Buddha's early discourses that provide guidance for facing disease and death. He focuses on the theme of compassion, and is concerned with anukampa: compassion as the underlying motivation in altruistic action.

Analayo uses his own translations from the Chinese originals, presented here for the first time. Taken together with his practical commentary, we thereby gain a first-hand impression of what early Buddhism had to say about disease and death.

Analayo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele. He teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan.