Buddha for Beginners

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by Steven T. Asma and Peter Altenberg

Publishers Group West

Due/Published September 1996, 155 pages, paper

ISBN 0863161863

An illustrated introduction to the life and thought of the historical Buddha, Buddha for Beginners compares and contrasts Buddha's philosophy with that of his historical contemporaries, as well as with later Buddhist schools and Western philosophical concepts.