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Shopping For Buddhas: 25th Anniversary Edition, With A New Preface By The Author (1990)

by Jeff Greenwald(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1609520947 (ISBN13: 9781609520946)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Travelers' Tales

review 1: Definitely a fun and humorous book. I love the way how Jeff describes his surroundings, with wit and a cunning feeling for self-ridicule. It's a fast paced, fun book that would appeal to both spiritually minded people and those who simply like travel books, especially Asian-based ones. Shopping for Buddha's starts with the quest for the perfect Buddha, and ends with a need to give up all material wants in order to get closer to enlightenment.
review 2: Greenwald's book begins as a spiritual tourist's romp through Nepal, and becomes something more thoughtful. Humorous throughout, and yet, really, quite deep, as Jeff returns again and again to this puzzling, ironic country, seeking the perfect statuette of the Buddha. He does not realize at first that people jus... moret like him are virtually robbing the country of its religious artifacts through the small wayside shops of Kathmandu. And then he discovers the truth, that the people of Nepal are being robbed, not just of their heritage, but by some of the most powerful people in the monarchy. This book was written toward the beginning of the Moaist insurgency. Much has changed in Nepal in the intervening years, but the people remain poor, and life expectancy is not long at all. In three months time, I will be in Nepal, in the middle of the LangTang Valley on a humanitarian mission with Clown One Italia. Because of this book, my understanding of what I will see and experience will be expanded. Not a lot of books written about Nepal. I'm glad this is one of them. less

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