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This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into 10 thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope of the Buddha's discourses, from family life and marriage to renunciation and the path of insight.

This volume offers a complete translation of the Sam?yutta Nika¯ya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Sam?yutta Nika¯ya consists of 56 chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the...

Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a...

Casa, lavoro, una moglie e una figlia, una vita perfetta: Bōta ha perso tutto per un solo, gravissimo errore. Dopo il carcere, si ritrova per strada, uno dei tanti invisibili relegati ai margini di una Tōkyō immensa e indifferente. Quelle persone accolgono Bōta nella loro piccola comunità sulle rive del fiume, gli insegnano ad arrangiarsi raccogliendo e rivendendo lattine vuote, a riconciliarsi con il passato, a non arrendersi. In quel microcosmo di esistenze dimenticate, Bōta trova nuove ragioni per restare.