Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used; Good
- ISBN 10
- 0141189460
- ISBN 13
- 9780141189468
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Greener Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0001658149
- Title
- Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0141189460
- ISBN 13
- 9780141189468
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Date Published
- 08/28/2008
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