Leaves of the Heaven Tree: Great Compassion of the Buddha

by K. Semendra, Deborah Black, Padma Chophel, et al.

Book Overview

The 108 accounts of the life of the Buddha and his disciples in Leaves of the Heaven Tree are from a much longer collection compiled by the eleventh-century Indian poet Ksemendra. The Tibetan master Padma Chophel abridged Ksemendra's text and simplified his classically elegant language to make them more accessible to the general reader.
In these accounts, the Buddha presents precepts well-known to all Buddhist traditions: the continuous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898002850
• ISBN13: 9780898002850
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Dharma Publishing
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"