Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
by Kerouac, Jack
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0670019577
- ISBN 13
- 9780670019571
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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.
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- Title
- Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670019577
- ISBN 13
- 9780670019571
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2008301311
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