390 pages ; 24 cm; PART 1: BUDDHA, SHOWING THE WAY: Why is the Buddha smiling? The life of the Buddha -- Different flavors, one taste: the teachings travel to different lands -- What might an Italian Buddha look like? Western Buddhism -- Different travel agents, same destination?: Interfaith -- PART 2: DHARMA: TRUTH AND THE WAY TO TRUTH: The tresure and the teachings: jewels of refuge and ennobling truths -- Buddha's way: the eightfold path -- Conscious conduct: precepts for a path with a heart -- Take Karma, make Dharma: essential ideas -- PART 3: SANGHA: JOINING THE PATH: How's your practice? Getting set -- Meditation: base camp -- Look within, and know: insight meditation -- See? Words cannot express: Zen -- True devotion: Pure Land -- Diamond way: Tibetan Buddhism -- PART 4: BUDDHISM IN ACTION: APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Bringing it all back home: mutual relations -- Food for the heart: the meal of life -- Working as if you didn't need the money: right livelihood -- Everybody's doing it: Buddhism and popular culture -- New ways of seeing and being; Buddhism and fine arts -- Within and without: Buddhism and the sciences -- Happiness is not an individual matter: engaged Buddhism -- APPENDIXES: A: The unfolding of the lotus: a chronology of the timeless -- B: Buddhism in a nutshell: a quick reference -- C: The vocabulary of silence: a glossary.; 

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