An End to Suffering

Is the Buddha still relevant today and if so in what way? Pankaj Mishra tries to answer this question as he travels through poverty-ridden South Asia to gilded Europe and America. Along the way he discovers how Buddhist thought has flowered even in a materialistic world and reveals the parallels between the age of the Buddha and the contemporary world. A rich challenging and deeply contemplative work An End to Suffering is regarded as many to be Mishra’s masterpiece. About the Author Pankaj Mishra is the author ofFrom the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist atBloomberg View and theNew York Times Book Review and writes regularly for The Guardian theLondon Review of Books and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature he lives in London.