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Author:	Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chodzin	Format:	--
Publisher:	Sounds True	ISBN-10:	1564559149
Edition Description:	Unabridged	ISBN-13:	9781564559142
Length:	Unabridged	Subject:	Religion & Spirituality
Language:	English	Topic:	--
Condition:	Like New

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Synopsis
An allegorical novel by the celebrated German writer. Sidhartha, the hero, is a type of Buddhist Everyman, who passes through many temptations and trials on his way to purification. The different stages of his spiritual development are represented by the various roles he takes on: wanderer, courtier, merchant, and hermit. Originally published in Germany in 1923, "Sidhartha" has been a perennial bestseller since its American publication in 1951.
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Height:	4.8 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	7.2 oz.

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Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
Industry reviews
"This book has been a particularly great help to those who had attached themselves to the noisy world and leaders of yesterday, and who are sincerely trying to find their own individuality and peace." Fritz Richter (11/18/1951) "[Henry Miller] asked me if I'd ever read Hermann Hesse. I hadn't, but I'd heard about him. Henry told me to read 'Siddhartha'. He had found a translation of it in England, and sent it to me. I read it, and thought, well, this is pretty sugar-candied Buddhism. And I said, 'Oh, gosh, Henry, do I have to?' And he said, 'Yes, you have to.' And so I did it. The first year the novel sold 400 copies. The next year it was about 800. But within 10 years it was selling a quarter of a million a year." Poets & Writers - James Laughlin "A product of the first postwar years, it gives a new and significant twist to the great question pervading all these works by Hesse--the question concerning the goal of the spirit....'Siddhartha' permits no prescriptions concerning what one is supposed to love in the world and what one is supposed to despise....In a time in which the representatives of the spirit so frequently enslaved themselves to rulers, he intrepidly maintained the free steadfastness of the spirit." "A Believing Humanism" - Martin Buber "The clarity of this short tale allows one to look through to its profound depth." Saturday Review - Robert Halsband (12/22/1951) "The cool and strangely simple story makes a beautiful little book, classic in proportion and style; it should be read slowly and with savor, preferably during the lonely hours of the night." Richter "The author's stringent, economical phrasing with its careful rhythms lends the book an air of studied antiquity, refreshing, yet, oddly, new." Hirsch

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chodzin 2001 - 4 CDs Set

A New Translation by Sherab Chodzin, Read by Baron Christian
4 CDs Set in Like New condition
Running time - 5 hours

This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha - a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. Here is a fresh translation from Sherab Chödzin Kohn, a gifted translator and longtime student of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy. Kohn's flowing, poetic translation conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hermann Hesse's text, paying special attention to the qualities of meditative experience.

On the subject of sacred literature, Hesse once said: "The very oldest works age the least." The same may one day be said of his Nobel prize-winning masterpiece, as astonishing today as when it was first published nearly eighty years ago.

The author: Hermann Hesse ... was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He is the author of Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, Journey to the East, The Glass Bead Game, and many other books.

Translated by: Sherab Chödzin Kohn ...has translated numerous books of spiritual and psychological interest from German and other European languages. He was a close student of Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa and is the author of The Awakened One: A Life of the Buddha.

Read by: Barron Christian ...is a voice and screen actor who has appeared in several motion picture films and on television throughout his career. He was the narrator of the Academy Award®-winning documentary film The Story of Healing.

From the book:

" When someone is seeking", said Siddhartha, "it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absordb anything, because he is ony thinking if the thing that he is seeking, becuase he has a goal. Seeking means: to have a goal, but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see the many things that are under your nose".

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