Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from Mexico City Blues to The Dharma Bums. Published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment. As a compendium of the teachings of the Buddha, Wake Up is a profound meditation on the nature of life, desire, wisdom, and suffering. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical sc…
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- ISBN: 978-0-670-01957-1
- EAN: 9780670019571
- Produktnummer: 3233747
- Verlag: Viking Hardcover
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 146 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.7 cm x D1.8 cm 299 g
- Gewicht: 299
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
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