Buddha Condition:Very Good where he killed sixty-nine more

where he killed sixty-nine more

/ The needlessness of shedding human blood

part meditation on faith

In this series of honest and poignant essays

Inspired by the “Overview Effect”—a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole—the breathtaking

Buddha Condition:Very Good where he killed sixty-nine moreBuddhism is a faith with hundreds of millions of followers worldwide. In this concise introduction, Karen Armstrong distills the key events of Buddha's lifefrom his birth as Siddhartha Gautama in the 5th century BCE and his abandonment of his wife and son, to his attainment of enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree, to his political influence, the divisions among his followers, and his serene death. Armstrong also outlines the core tenets of Buddhism