The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character
- ISBN-10
- 0199870330
- ISBN-13
- 9780199870332
- Series
- The Six Perfections
- Category
- Buddhist ethics
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- Dale Stuart Wright
Description
Here is a lucid, accessible, and inspiring guide to the six perfections - a set of Buddhist teachings designed to transform human character through the perfection of generosity, morality, tolerance, energy, meditation, and wisdom. Dale Wright shows how these teachings were understood and practiced in the Buddha's time.
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- 2021-12-07
- 224 pages
- Paperback
- Wisdom Publications
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- 2020-03-31
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- 2009
- 299 pages
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- Oxford University Press on Demand
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