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The complete idiot's guide to Buddhism / by Gary Gach.

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New York : Alpha Books, c2009.

9781592579112 (pbk.)

xxiv, 387 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

PART 1: BUDDHA, SHOWING THE WAY: The teachings of a smile: the life of the Buddha -- Different flavors, one taste: the teachings travel to different lands -- Interfaith: same mountain, different trails -- The newest petal of the lotus: Western Buddhism -- PART 2: DHARMA: TRUTH, AND THE WAY TO TRUTH: Gem of refuge, ennobling truth -- Buddha's way: the eightfold path -- Take Karma, make Dharma: key points -- Conscious conduct: precepts for a path with a heart -- PART 3: SANGHA: JOINING THE PATH: Stepping into freedom: establishing a practice -- Meditation: base camp -- Look within: insight meditation -- Gate to the source: Zen -- The way is easy and wide: Buddha's pure land -- Diamond way: Tibetan Buddhism -- PART 4: BUDDHISM IN ACTION: APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Bringing it all back home: relations -- It's not just a job, it's life itself: right livelihood -- Food for the heart: the meal of life -- Everybody's doing it: Buddhism and popular culture -- Awakening ways of seeing and being: Dharma art -- Life within us and without us: Buddhism and science -- Is happiness an individual matter?: engaged Buddhism -- APPENDIXES: A: Buddhism in a one-page book: quick reference -- B: The vocabulary of silence: a Buddhist glossary -- C. From the trees to thee: further reads.

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