Peaceful Action, Open Heart: Lessons from the Lotus Sutra

Renowned Zen teacher Hanh explores the Lotus Sutra's main theme--that everyone has the capacity to become a Buddha and that the Buddha nature is inherent in everything--while emphasizing that Buddha-nature is the basis for peaceful action.

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: 01/09/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781888375930
ISBN10: 1888375930
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism | Sacred Writings
- Religion | Buddhism | Zen (see also Philosophy | Zen)

About the Author
THICH NHAT HANH is one of the most revered and influential spiritual teachers in the world today. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he has published more than 100 books, which have sold more than five million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing mindfulness to the West. In 1982 he established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe. He lives in Hue in Central Vietnam.