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020			_a9781569571927
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a294.3 _bHRD/EP
100			_aHrdaya, Chittadhar.
245			_aEPIC OF THE BUDDHA : _bHis Life and Teachings
250			_a1
260			_aColorado _bShambhala _c2019/01/01
300			_g434
500			_a"This book contains the English translation of "The Sweet Fragrance of the Buddha," a beautiful, devotional epic poem that portrays the major events in the Buddha's life from birth to death. Chittadhar Hrdaya, a master poet from Nepal, wrote it while in prison in the 1940s, smuggling it out over time on pieces of paper. Hrdaya's verses create a sense of a magical environment in which clouds, trees, flowers, and the buzzing of bees all reflect and evoke the full range of emotions, from erotic love to anger to heroism to compassion and peace, experienced by the young prince Siddhartha, as well as by his father, mother, wife, and son. By showing how the central events of the Buddha's life are experienced from different people's viewpoints, the poem communicates a fuller and deeper sense of the humanity of everyone involved and the depth of the Buddha's loving-kindness for all beings. This English translation captures the beauty and flow of the original, and the volume supplements the translation with short essays that both explain the Indic poetry conventions that Hṛdaya employed and provide the political backstory behind the author's imprisonment"-
650			_aReligion- Buddhism.
650			_aPhilosophy - Buddhist.
650			_aTranslations into English.
650			_aHr̥daya, Cittadhara, - 1906-1982.
650			_aGautama Buddha -- Poetry.
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999			_c177536 _d177536