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  <title>Guide to the Buddhas (Meeting the Buddhas) (Meeting the Buddhas)</title>
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Apr 26 15:26:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, and it served as a good explanation of some of the archetypal figures found in Buddhism. At times, it's very evocative with the language used, and at others it suffers from what seem to me, at least, to be fairly elementary mistakes. It's also a little misleading in that it appears there will be methods to practice with the archetypes, yet only one of these is actually given. Nonetheless I found it worth reading and it broadened my knowledge; the author certainly knows his subject, if the writing is somewhat inconsistent.<br/><br/>Given that this is the first book of three, I hope that the rest in the series have more consistent writing and ideally more methods of practice; from the point of view of the information conveyed alone I'd give it a higher rating, but taken in context with the periodically awkward writing I can only really describe it as a bit above average for books on the subject.]]></body>
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