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  <title><![CDATA[A Buddhist Bible]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Favorite Scriptures Of The Zen Sect, History Of Early Zen Buddhism, Self-Realisation Of The Noble Wisdom, The Diamond Sutra, The Prajna Paramita Sutra, The Sutra Of The Sixth Patriarch.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this near my bed for months now.  I read it all the goddamn time, especially the first bit, which is a collection of a number of the Pali texts glommed together to give a sensible presentation of the historical Buddha's actual teachings.<br/><br/>The title irks me to no end, though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't the most amazing collection, or the best translation, but for historical impact this gets an extra star. Definitely a great intro to the concepts of Buddhism, with a simplicity and sincerity that more modern translators sometimes lack.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The three stars are not for the Buddhism (who am I to rate world religious texts with a star system?) but for the often rather archaic translations which serve as a barrier to the content.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I carried this book everywhere I went for years. It slowly fell apart, but by then I had absorbed all I could and it felt good to part with it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful collection of Buddhist thought, in a concise and easy to read format. This was a favorite of Kerouac.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book will always be on my currently reading shelf...because little pieces of it need to be read everyday]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another book used for reference that i have not read from cover to cover.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[the actual words of the buddha... or supposedly. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't read all]]></body>
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