Living Buddha, Living Christ Audiobook
Living Buddha, Living Christ Audiobook
- Ben Kingsley
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2003-08-01
- 2 h 0 min
Summary:
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER BEN KINGSLEY READS NOBEL PEACE Reward NOMINEE THICH NHAT HANH’S INSPIRING MASTERPIECE
‘When you are a really happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa.’ — Thich Nhat Hanh
World-renowned thinker and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh, considered by many to be always a ‘Living Buddah,’ explores the spiritual crossroads where the customs of Christianity and Buddhism fulfill. Living Buddha, Living Christ reawakens our knowledge of both religions and the cable connections between them.
The bestselling author of Creating Accurate Peace, and probably one of the most much loved Buddhist educators in the Western world, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh continues to be section of a decades-long dialogue between the two greatest living contemplative customs. In lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness of which the two customs match, and reawakens our understanding of both. ‘On the altar in my hermitage,’ he says, ‘are pictures of Buddha and Jesus, and I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors.’