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# The Living Buddha: An Interpretive Biography (Soka Gakkai History of Buddhism)

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    Highly insightful biography
  

*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2010*

Daisaku Ikeda, a renown and respected religious leader, poet, author and president of Soka Gakkai International, a global Buddhist order, gives us a very easy to understand and insightful look into one of the most important religious figures in history.This puts into plain English, the story of a man, who renounces the luxurious comforts of his royal heritage and sets out to seek the answers to the questions, "Why do some people live in great comfort and wealth, while others suffer from poverty, illness and other afflictions in their lives?" and "What can be done to help people escape this suffering?"This book portrays a man with a highly intuitive understanding of life and great compassion for the suffering of his fellow human being, while at the same time giving an outline of the history of religious evolution of ancient India.As a devout practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism and an active member of Soka Gakkai, I found this book to be a essential reading and one of the most well thought and honest interpretations of the founding and early development of Buddhism. I also have the two other books in this series, and am currently reading the second one, "Buddhism, the First Millennium"

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    Best book on the Buddha I’ve ever read
  

*by T***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2020*

With frankness, honesty, and yet with a style similar to a friend talking to you, Ikeda gives a refreshing and interpretation of the life of Shakyamuni Buddha and is a must read for those who wish to have a general understanding of who Siddhārtha was and how he became the Buddha, through the lens of yet another famous philosopher and peace activist

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    Five Stars
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2017*

Great book on the life of the Buddha.Excellent translation and editing by Burton Watson.

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