Buddha's Ancient PathFrom the Jacket: This is a book on basic Buddhism with a difference, for it is written by a monk who was native of Ceylon, a scholar and a well known preacher and broadcaster in Ceylon. He had the Pali canon and the commentaries at his fingertips, so that his book is full of apposite stories and quotations of what the Buddha said many of them appearing in English for the first time. In recent years a number of expositions of the Buddha's teachings

The sacred in the Indian tradition is more an experience than a concept and goes much beyond the narrow confines of an organised temple or even a shrine

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The ferocious Goddess is wearing a garlands of beheaded skulls and blood is dripping from her bulging tongue

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The treatment has been made interesting by profuse illustrations

The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance