Dharmachari nagaraja biography definition

Three years ago I walked into a bookstore in Vancouver, where I was doing a book launch, and literally the first book spine that caught my eye in the Buddhist book section was called Buddha at Bedtime.

Dharmachari nagaraja biography definition

As the father of two young children I pulled it from the shelf with excitement, and was astonished to discover it had been written by an old friend of mine from my days in Glasgow.

Of course I got a copy of the book, and it&#;s been a bedtime fixture in our household ever since.

Now comes a much-welcomed sequel, The Buddha&#;s Apprentice at Bedtime.

As with the first volume, The Buddha&#;s Apprentice contains adaptations of traditional &#;Jataka&#; tales, which are Indian fairy tales that tell of the previous lives of the Buddha.

Each tale illustrates a particular virtue, in a similar way to the Fables of Aesop, which draw on the same body of folk tales (Indian and Greek cultures have a historical connection)