Buddhism
by Cathy Cantwell
I chose this book because she gives a fantastic overview of the whole tradition of Buddhism. Cathy is a scholar as well as a Buddhist. She has done a lot of fieldwork among Tibetan communities and in this book she writes for students and for anyone who is quite new to the tradition.
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“Buddhism is tremendously various and can be very confusing and I think Cathy has done a very good job in a fairly short book.” Read more...
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