Armstrong's greatest challenge is the fact that everything the Buddha believed in and taught is utterly opposed to biography itself. The very impulses and notions that make us read biographies ...

HEmploying both history and myth in a steady yet open style, Strong has very admirably achieved his goal of producing a "middle way" biography of the Buddha for interested generalists and students ...

Forthcoming books on the life of the Buddha, St. Augustine, and the Biblical villain Haman each offer new perspectives on the men behind the myths.

THOMAS makes a first-hand contribution to the subject, based on a wealth of new material; while at the same time he gives to the layman a fascinating biography ... account of Buddha's life in ...

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong observed in her 2001 biography of the Buddha that “[s]ome Buddhists might say that to write a biography of Siddhatta Gotama [sic] is a very un-Buddhist thing to ...

(The Conversation) — Buddha’s birthday has not always been a major holiday for Buddhists, but is now celebrated in diverse ways throughout Asia. (The Conversation) — When Siddhartha Gautama ...

According to the Mahavastu, the earliest Sanskrit biography of the Buddha, her “eyes, as a result of her tears and grief, had become covered as with scales, and she had become blind.” ...

While its proposed director Binod Pradhan has been tied up doing the cinematography of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ the Buddha bio-pic’s producer Sheetal Talwar has been ...