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The Eternal Legacy /Wisdom Beyond Words, 14 (Paperback)
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The Eternal Legacy /Wisdom Beyond Words, 14 (Paperback)
Series: The Complete Works of Sangharakshita
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This volume, which introduces the sequence of Complete Works
volumes that include Sangharakshita's commentaries on a range of
traditional Buddhist texts, begins with The Eternal Legacy, an
introduction to the canonical literature of Buddhism, which
succinctly and with great feeling gives the context for the
commentaries to follow. Next comes Sangharakshita's talk 'The Glory
of the Literary World', which considers how the Buddhist canon is
to be approached, in a broad consideration of the literary
traditions of both East and West. This is followed by an
introduction to one of the earliest works of the Pali canon, the
Udana, newly edited from a 1975 seminar for this Complete Works
volume under the title Buddhism before Buddhism. Here we trace the
Buddha's life from the period just after his Enlightenment to the
time of his approaching death, and Sangharakshita (studying the
text with members of what was in 1975 a very young Buddhist
movement) draws out the newness and freshness of the Buddha's
vision - so new, indeed, that words could scarcely be found to
express it. And this volume concludes fittingly with Wisdom Beyond
Words, Sangharakshita's much-loved commentary on several Perfection
of Wisdom texts, another way of seeing how, in Asvaghosa's words,
'We use words to get free of words until we reach the pure wordless
essence.'
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