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Title
The Dhammapada

Author
Eknath Easwaran

format
Hardback

Publisher
Nilgiri Press

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20190926

Description

Eknath Easwaran's translation of The Dhammapadain paperback is the bestseller among comparable translations. A second edition was published in 2007.

Sales for Easwaran's "Classics of Indian Spirituality" series:
The Bhagavad Gita - 235,000 units net, 33,400 units last year
The Upanishads - 110,000 units net, 14,400 units last year
The Dhammapada - 70,000 units net, 7,850 units last year

About Easwaran's The Dhammapada paperback

Sales and Market Share:
Sales of 7,000 per year
27% share of total US market for Dhammapada translations and commentaries
Sells twice as many as the second best-selling translation

What's special about this book:
Clear, accessible, reliable translation
Comprehensive, 85-page introduction gives an overview of the Buddha's teachings that is penetrating and clear
Introduction includes the story of the young Siddhartha and his heroic spiritual quest

Readers:
Academic courses, e.g. Philosophy, Asian Studies, Religious Studies
Yoga schools
Readers interested in philosophy, spirituality, Buddhism, Hinduism, religion

Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) brings to this volume a rare combination of credentials. He was trained from an early age in Sanskrit, of which Pali, the language of the Buddha, is a simplified version. Later he studied English literature and was chairman of the English department at a major Indian university when he came to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship in 1959. Huston Smith writes, "His Indian heritage, literary gifts, and spiritual sensibilities here produce a sublime rendering of the words of the Buddha. Verse after verse shimmers with quiet, confident authority."

In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in California, and in 1967, at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught the first academic course on meditation ever offered for credit at a major American university. He continued to teach passage meditation and his eight-point program for spiritual living to an American and international audience for almost forty years. His thirty-three books on meditation and the classics of world mysticism are translated into twenty-five languages.

From the mid-1970s onwards, Easwaran held classes on the Dhammapada for a primarily American audience. A gifted teacher, he was able to anticipate the problems that Western readers may have with the concepts underlying the classics of Indian spirituality, and to explain them in fresh and profoundly simple ways. But for Easwaran the Dhammapada was not just of intellectual interest. His main qualification for interpreting the Dhammapada, he said, was that he knew from his own experience that these verses could truly transform our lives.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Second Edition edition

Country of Publication
California

Number of Pages
280

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