- Doctrines, Buddhism
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Cool, grave, contemplative and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Batchelor
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 136
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Riverhead Trade
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747538431
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First sentence
“LET'S GO BACK to the beginning: to the awakening of Siddhartha Gautama, aka the Tathagata, Shakyamuni, the World Honored One-the Buddha himself.”
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