Holy Places of the Buddha

by Elizabeth Cook, Elizabeth Cook, Tarthang Tulku (Editor)

An illustrated guide to the eight holy places of the Buddha - Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, Kushinagara, Shravasti, Samkashya, and Vaishali - and the six Dharma regions of the Sotuh Asian subcobntinent.

Genres: Buddhism

481 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 1994

About the author

Elizabeth Cook was born in Gibraltar in 1952, spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset, and now lives in East London. She is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), a work of fiction acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. Her poetry, short fiction and critical reviews have appeared in many journals including Agenda, The London Review of Books, Poetry London, Stand and Tears in the Fence. She was a Hawthornden fellow in 2003

Reviews

[TOTO from Kansas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great reference book for anyone studying Buddhism.