Gianpietro are factions, "The Buddha , Cittadella Editrice, Assisi (PG) 1993
The current spread of speeches - including film - about Buddhism and its founder, vitality returns to a genre, the biography, which seemed watered down by a plethora of books honest but repetitive.
is reprinting the classic example " Buddha" by Oldenberg, and among the contemporary works deserves a prominent place this work Fazion, Zen practitioner and author, again for the Cittadella types of a "Zen Buddhism Journey" (1990 ).
The originality of the book is revealed from the beginning, where no way to "evental" to make history in favor of a treatment for issues "that debuted in" media res " with the entry of Buddhism in China ( eighth century); here Fazion leans on" Memoirs of countries the West at the time of the great Tang "of Xuangzang , which tells of a sort of pilgrimage to the places crucial historical Buddha.
Several times Fazion indulges a parallelism between the dispossession of Francis of Assisi and that of Siddhartha . But Francis lands Absolute personnel, as well as suggests its Christian context; while the Buddha sinks in a silence which is metaphysical rather close, in a Western context, the so-called apophatic mysticism of Meister Eckhart , or even, in some way, the position of the Blessed Angela of Foligno , properly cited at pp. 38-39.
Significant interest is also the "woman question" that the book looks at pages 135-145 ("Stories of women "), there is shown that the attitude of the Buddha order against women, and it seems to us tinged with misogyny, it should be contextualized: in the fifth century BC . in India, the possibility that women spend life to the spiritual quest was already a revolution. Last
value of this book, and not secondary: it is well written, educated and fluent in Italian.
Louis Turinese
In pictures: "Tombstone Person"
Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and the dialogue ", Year XIII, No 50, April-June 1994
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