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About The Book
In a certain place not far from Benares there lived a man by name Gautama who after having experienced some-thing of life resolved to leave all behind him and with one or two others to depart from his native place and travel far away.
So along with these others he forsook his village and took nothing with him but a staff and a calabash and on his body a red robe.
Now when they came to the cross-roads But his companions went straight on. Gautama thought "Why should I go straight on? I will turn to the left." The others however called to him "This is where the way lies Friend Gautama!" But he answered "My way lies this way " whereupon the others considered "Leave him alone. What is it to us? He is a fool!"
About The Author
"Paul Dahlke (25 January 1865 Osterode – 29 February 1928) was a German physician and one of the founders of Buddhism in Germany. He wrote extensively about Buddhist teaching and living and translated Buddhist literature into German.
In 1898 he started a journey around the world and was fascinated by the South Pacific. He also stopped over in Ceylon where he encountered Buddhism. He had read about Buddhism when he had studied Schopenhauer. Two years later he went on his second journey this time specifically to Ceylon to learn more about Buddhism. He learned Pali and met local Sinhala Buddhist monks among them Hikkaduwe Sumangala Suriyagoda Sumangala Nyananissara and Wagiswara. He returned a Buddhist and in the following years made several more journeys to Asia primarily to Ceylon but also to China India Burma Thailand and Indonesia. When World War I started he happened to be in Germany and was unable to travel to Ceylon as he had planned. After the war Dahlke bought property in Berlin Frohnau and asked the architect Max Meyer to build ‘Das Buddhistische Haus’ using elements of Sinhala Buddhist architecture. After he was able to move into the house in 1924 his activities included daily Buddhist meetings as well as presentations and publications. He died in 1928 and was buried on the property."
Publisher : Winsome Books India (January 1 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 330 pages
ISBN-10 : 8188043192
ISBN-13 : 978-8188043194
Dimensions : 5.91 x 1.97 x 9.84 CM