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The Buddhist Path to Awakening
Drawing exhaustively on a wide range of sources both primary and secondary, and in particular on the Pali texts, Rupert Gethin offers a comprehensive study of 'the thirty-seven conditions that contribute to awakening' (bodhi-pakkhiya dhamma), a classic set of Buddhist eachings which takes us from the four contemplations that establish mindfulness to a full realization of the nobel eightfold path. He examines these conditions both individually and collectively, revealing how early Buddhist thinkers understood the process of spiritual practice by which our ordinary consciousness can be transormed into the 'awakened' consciousness characterized by the wisdom and compassion of a Buddha.
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