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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

What the Buddha Taught

by Walpola Rahula

A concise introduction to the Buddha's teaching by a Sri Lankan scholar-monk, covering the Four Noble Truths, not-self, meditation and ethics, with a small selection of texts translated from the Pali. Long a standard first book in universities, it presents a rational, text-centred reading typical of mid-twentieth-century Buddhist modernism.

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