Description
Lot of 2 Books describing Tibetan Buddhist Writings & Practices (Shambhala Soft-cover editions)
• Author: Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche’s translation of Nāgārjuna MMK
• Author: The 14th Dalai Lama
• Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boston, MA U.S.A. 2003 & 1988
Siddhartha Gautama (who became known as the Buddha, lived for about 80 years somewhere between 570BC and 400BC) was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who traveled through India. He taught there was a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and asceticism that could lead to Nirvana (freedom from the vices of human existence through awareness of the patterns and acting in harmony with the Universe.) This teaching became the basis for Buddhism which then developed mainly through oral traditions.