The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Buddhism, third edition

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  1. Buddhism can be explained in 7 words ... or less ...
    ‹ or no words (for a tv exclusive) .

  2. Buddhism is now not only accepted in the mainstream but is the second fastest-growing religion in America.
    ‹ Moreover, one in eight polled affirm teachings of the Buddha as having positive spiritual influence in their lives (without having to self-identify as Buddhist).

  3. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism has already been read by over 100,000 people, one of the most successful titles in the Complete Idiot's Guide series in religion and spirituality.

  4. This is the first balanced coverage of four major traditional schools of practice in the West: Insight Meditation (Vipassana), Zen, Pure Land, and Tibetan (Vajrayana)
    ‹ and thus remains the forefront of what is now being called One Dharma, around the globe. This is the first, new petal of the Lotus to open and unfold in thousands of years.

  5. The text of the third edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism has been completely revised throughout, to speak to the new concerns of a new generation of readers ... and seekers.
    ‹ Buddhism has sharp appeal in uncertain and hard times.

  6. Updates since the second edition include the amazing recent breakthroughs in cognitive science ("train your mind, to change brain") in which Buddhism is a major player. (Have you heard of "monkey neurons" aka "mirror neurons"?)

  7. Buddhism is key in the phenomenal Happiness Movement (aka Positive Psychology).

  8. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Gach's own root teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (recently permitted to return to his homeland) are the two most widely known Buddhist teachers today.

  9. Buddhism has dozens of simple, practical exercises anyone can enjoy. Gary Gach can show you how.

  10. Gary Gach has been studying Buddhism for 40 years.




    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism
    416 pages · ISBN: 9781592578818 · June 2009 · $18.95
    Author: Gary Gach, San Francisco Calif

    Please contact Wilks Communications at patty [at] wilkspr [dot] com, or 708-434-5006, for a review copy or to arrange an interview with the author.



    May all beings be well.