by Gautama Buddha, Karl E. Neumann, Isabelle Fuchs · Anaconda · tapa dura · ISBN 9783866470637
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«Die Pfeiler der Einsicht» is an anthology of discourses and parables by Gautama Buddha published by Anaconda in hardback (112 pages, in German).
After attaining enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, Buddha gave his first teaching before five ascetics and for forty-five years preached to people of all classes. His words were transmitted orally and later collected in writing. This volume brings together a selection of those discourses and parables in the translation by Karl E. Neumann.
Published in 2006. Translation by Karl E. Neumann and selection by Isabelle Fuchs. The full title includes the subtitle «Reden und Gleichnisse».
For readers of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy seeking a brief selection of Buddha's discourses and parables.
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. After leading a life of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation, he attained nirvana at Bodh Gaya in what is now Bihar, India. The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order (sangha). Buddhist tradition holds he died in Kushinagar and reached parinirvana.
