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Buddha or Bust

Buddha or Bust

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Written by Perry GarfinkelAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Perry Garfinkel

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
  • Publisher: Three Rivers Press
  • On Sale: July 24, 2007
  • Price: $13.95
  • ISBN: 978-1-4000-8218-6 (1-4000-8218-8)
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Why does an idea that’s 2,500 years old seem more relevant today than ever before? How can the Buddha’s teachings help us solve many of the world’s problems? Journalist Perry Garfinkel circumnavigated the globe to discover the heart of Buddhism and the reasons for its growing popularity–and ended up discovering himself in the process.

The assignment from National Geographic couldn’t have come at a better time for Garfinkel. Burned out, laid up with back problems, disillusioned by relationships and religion itself, he was still hoping for that big journalistic break–and the answers to life’s biggest riddles as well. So he set out on a geographic, historical and personal expedition that would lead him around the world in search of those answers, and then some.

In this original, entertaining book, Garfinkel separates Buddhist fact from fiction, sharing his humorous insights and keen perceptions about everything from spiritual tourism to Asian traffic jams to the endless road to enlightenment.