For Buddhists seeking perfection, the Sanskrit word Nirvana is held as the unreachable goal.
In 1988, in India, she became the first Western European person to be ordained as a monastic by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh ..
SISTER ANNABEL LAITY (Chan Duc, True Virtue) was born in England and studied Classics and Sanskrit.
He lives in Hue in Central Vietnam.
In 1982 he established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe.
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.
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.
Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen.
About author(s): THICH Nhat Hanh is one of the most revered and influential spiritual teachers in the world today.
We also gain insights into the elusive space outside of space of nirvana\'s ultimate dimension.
Through his commentary, ranging freely in his vast knowledge of Vietnamese Buddhist history, we gain a master practitioner\'s view of a tradition of Zen Buddhism that has been, until now, inaccessible to Western students.
With his fluency in Classical Chinese and his knowledge of Sanskrit and Pali, Thich Nhat Hanh is the perfect guide to lead the way to a new understanding of Nirvana for an international audience.
Previously unavailable in English, these teachings on the experiential path which can help us touch Nirvana are an instant classic for Buddhists and meditation practitioners.
Described there as the absence of notions that cause suffering, we discover that Nirvana can be experienced at any time.
Based on talks given in his home monastery of Plum Village in France at the peak of his long teaching career, The Nirvana Chapter conveys Thich Nhat Hanh \'s insights on the 36 verses on Nirvana in the Chinese Dharmapada.
Nirvana is our daily business, Thich Nhat Hanh says.
But in this definitive, direct translation of the Chinese Dharmapada by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh , Nirvana is not what you think it is.
For Buddhists seeking perfection, the Sanskrit word Nirvana is held as the unreachable goal
