Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Buddha and the Terrorist

3.9/5 ( ratings)

“A challenging story, beautifully written, most pertinent and relevant to our time.” —Deepak Chopra

Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world.

In this timely retelling of an ancient Buddhist parable, peace activist Satish Kumar has created a small book with a powerful spiritual message about ending violence. It is a tale of a fearsome outcast named Angulimala , who is terrorizing towns and villages in order to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace. One day he comes face to face with the Buddha and is persuaded, through a series of compelling conversations, to renounce violence and take responsibility for his actions.

The Buddha and the Terrorist addresses the urgent questions we face today: Should we talk to terrorists? Can we reason with religious fundamentalists? Is nonviolence practical? The story ends with a dramatic trial that speaks to the victims of terrorism—the families whose mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters Angulimala has murdered. It asks whether it is possible for them to forgive. Or whether it is even desirable.

No one can read The Buddha and the Terrorist without thinking about the root causes of terrorism, about good and evil, about justice and forgiveness, about the kind of place we want the world to be, and, most important, about the most productive and practical way to get there.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Release: September 01, 2006

ISBN: 1565125207

ISBN 13: 9781565125209

The Buddha and the Terrorist

3.9/5 ( ratings)

“A challenging story, beautifully written, most pertinent and relevant to our time.” —Deepak Chopra

Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world.

In this timely retelling of an ancient Buddhist parable, peace activist Satish Kumar has created a small book with a powerful spiritual message about ending violence. It is a tale of a fearsome outcast named Angulimala , who is terrorizing towns and villages in order to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace. One day he comes face to face with the Buddha and is persuaded, through a series of compelling conversations, to renounce violence and take responsibility for his actions.

The Buddha and the Terrorist addresses the urgent questions we face today: Should we talk to terrorists? Can we reason with religious fundamentalists? Is nonviolence practical? The story ends with a dramatic trial that speaks to the victims of terrorism—the families whose mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters Angulimala has murdered. It asks whether it is possible for them to forgive. Or whether it is even desirable.

No one can read The Buddha and the Terrorist without thinking about the root causes of terrorism, about good and evil, about justice and forgiveness, about the kind of place we want the world to be, and, most important, about the most productive and practical way to get there.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Release: September 01, 2006

ISBN: 1565125207

ISBN 13: 9781565125209

More books from Thomas Moore

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Florentine Tragedy

The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure

God's Breath: Sacred Scriptures of the World -- The Essential Texts of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Suf

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Saying Yes to Life: (Even the Hard Parts)

The World Is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Moore's Irish Melodies: The Illustrated 1846 Edition

3.7/5 ( ratings)

There is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Poems Of Sir Thomas Moore, Volume 1

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: A New Edition, Collected and Arranged by Himself: Complete in One Volume

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Tis the Last Rose of Summer

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Passport to Yesterday

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Madonna from Russia

2.3/5 ( ratings)

Pushkin's Second Wife and Other Micronovels

Medical Malpractice 7th Ed (2 Vols): Discovery and Trial

Orchid Album: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, Volume 1

Rate this book!

Write a review?