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The Book introduces readers to the fundamental ethical precepts of Buddhism. Buddhist ethics are significant and relevant to contemporary society, as these are not restricted to any caste, creed, race, region and language. The ethical precepts of Buddhist are flexible and autonomous in character. They are of a very practical character, such that they can easily adopted and applied to modern times. The precepts are essentially taken from the sacred texts of ...
Man from time immemorial has been striving hard to make his life happy and avoid suffering. But a look at human existence does show that man is always exposed to suffering, physical or mental or spiritual. The general spirit that runs through all orthodox schools is that the genesis of human suffering lies in man’s ignorance concerning the true nature of the self. No other thinker was as sensitive as Buddha to the fact of dukkha and it is this sensitivity to ...