Buddha

Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings.Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be an inscription at the front.

Born Siddhartha Gautama into a life of privilege in fifth-century BCE northern India, the man who would become the Buddha abandoned his royal inheritance to pursue one of history's most radical spiritual experiments — the quest to extinguish suffering at its very root. Karen Armstrong's Buddha reconstructs this extraordinary life with scholarly precision and narrative grace, tracing the prince's passage from sheltered opulence through ascetic hardship to the moment of enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree, and charting the founding of a tradition that would reshape the consciousness of half the world. Armstrong, one of the foremost commentators on religion in the modern age, situates the Buddha within the intellectual and cultural ferment of the Axial Age — that remarkable period when thinkers from Greece to China simultaneously reimagined the human condition. Her prose is measured and luminous, resisting hagiography in favour of a portrait that is both historically grounded and deeply humane. Buddha ultimately argues that Siddhartha's insights into impermanence, compassion, and the nature of the self are not ancient curiosities but urgent answers to questions the modern world has yet to resolve.