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Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha Paperback - 2009
by Jack Kerouac, Robert Thurman (Introduction)
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- Paperback
In the early 1950s, Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have an impact on his ideas of spirituality. As a compendium of the teachings of the Buddha, "Wake Up" is a profound meditation on the nature of life, desire, and suffering.
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Details
- Title Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
- Author Jack Kerouac, Robert Thurman (Introduction)
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2009-10-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0143116010
- ISBN 9780143116011 / 0143116010
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 6.12 x 4.78 x 0.6 in (15.54 x 12.14 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Buddhist
- Library of Congress subjects Gautama Buddha, Buddhists - India
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
Jack Kerouac?s profound meditations on the Buddha?s life and religion
In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in paperback, Wake Up is Kerouac?s retelling of the life of Prince Siddhartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha?s life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.
In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in paperback, Wake Up is Kerouac?s retelling of the life of Prince Siddhartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha?s life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.
