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From Buddha to Christ (Paperback)
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From Buddha to Christ (Paperback)
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Many people who are drawn to Buddhism today are seeking for
spiritual knowledge as opposed to simple faith or sectarian belief.
Hermann Beckh had a profound personal connection to the Buddhist
path and the noble truths it contains, yet he was also dedicated to
a radical renewal of Christianity. Assimilating the groundbreaking
research of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Beckh's comprehension of
Buddhism was neither limited to historical documents nor scholarly
research in philology. Rather, from his inner meditation and
spiritual understanding, he saw the earlier great world religions
as waymarks for humanity's evolving consciousness. In the modern
world, the apprehension of Christianity needed to be grounded
firmly in a universally-valid, inner cognition and experience: `In
this light, knowledge becomes life.' Hermann Beckh - Professor of
Tibetan Studies and Sanskrit in Berlin, subsequently a founding
priest of The Christian Community - first published this mature
study in 1925. Having already produced the comprehensive Buddha's
Life and Teaching in 1916, Beckh's sweeping perspectives combined
with his extensive academic knowledge provided a unique grounding
for authoring this work. As he notes, From Buddha to Christ follows
a path of development, `both of method and goal'. Thus, studying
this book is itself a path of knowledge and potential initiation.
Beckh's universal insights remain relevant - and if anything have
gained in value - to twenty-first century readers. This edition
features an additional essay, `Steiner and Buddha: Neo-Buddhist
Spiritual Streams and Anthroposophy' (1931), in which Beckh, for
the first and last time, explains his lifelong personal connection
to the Buddhist path. `Christianizing the Buddha's impulse at the
same time broadens the Christian horizon...' - Hermann Beckh
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