by Christmas Humphreys · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140134834
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«Buddhism: An Introduction and Guide» is the introductory guide to Buddhism by Christmas Humphreys, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The work reviews the origin of Buddhism in India and its expansion across Asia, and explains the teachings of the Theravada and Mahayana schools. Humphreys combines philosophy, psychology and religious practice, and presents Buddhism as a middle way of self-development towards enlightenment that has guided millions of people for 2,500 years.
The work was originally published in 1951 as «Buddhism (Pelican)»; this Penguin edition is from December 1990.
For readers approaching Buddhism for the first time who want to understand its history, schools and essential ideas.
Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC was a British jurist who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and who later became a judge at the Old Bailey. He also wrote a number of works on Mahayana Buddhism and in his day was the best-known British convert to Buddhism. In 1924 he founded what became the London Buddhist Society, which was to have a seminal influence on the growth of the Buddhist tradition in Britain. His former home in St John's Wood, London, is now a Buddhist temple. He was an enthusiastic proponent of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.
