Adventures with the Buddha

Many books on Buddhism will edify you but will they entertain you? Here finally is a book that yields an understanding of Buddhism; not by its metaphysics or rituals but through real characters and true stories as dramatic as those in the most imaginative novel. Jeffery Paine has assembled the breath-taking adventures of nine Westerners who travel Ed in China Tibet and Japan in Nepal and India and in that new Buddhist frontier America chanced across Buddhism and made it an integral part of their lives. Through vivid travel writing and gripping human tales the reader is exposed not just to the theory of Buddhist philosophy and practice but also to what it looks like from the inside. From enchanting now-lost kingdoms in Asia to the American workplace where a practitioner is profitably applying the dharma adventures with the Buddha is a tour de force across nations generations and ultimately spirituality.