Wake up : a life of the Buddha /
By: Kerouac, Jack
Title By: Thurman, Robert A. F
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Penguin Group, c2008.Description: xxix, 146 p ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780141189468Subject(s): Gautama Buddha -- Biography | Religious biography -- India | Buddhists -- India -- Biography | Buddhism -- DoctrinesDDC classification: 294.363 KE WA Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 294.363 KE WA (Browse shelf) | Available | T0036697 |
, Shelving location: Main Collection Close shelf browser
294.342 AS WH Why I am a Buddhist : | 294.3423 KA TI The Tibetan book of the dead (English title) : | 294.3423 OS FI The five invitations : | 294.363 KE WA Wake up : | 294.39230922 NO HO Holder of the white lotus : | 294.5 AR EX Exploring world beliefs : | 294.5092 GO LI The life of Yogananda : |
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. Published for the first time in book form, this 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 meditation on the nature of life, desire, wisdom, and suffering. Distilled from a variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a concise primer on the concepts of Buddhism and as a document of Kerouac's evolving beliefs. It is the work of a devoted spiritualfollower of the Buddha who also happened to be one of the twentieth century's most influential novelists.--From publisher description.