Review: A very brief introduction...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2011
This is a very small Kindle title with just about 200 'kindle locations' of content.  It is certainly not intended to be a complete or exhaustive commentary, and I do not judge it as such.  For someone like me, who knows very little about the principles of Buddhism, it serves as a very basic introduction.  In fact, in the introduction section it specifically states the goal of the text is to describe the basic principles and to focus on the essence or essential concepts.The Table of Contents:IntroductionThe Essence of BuddhismThe Four Noble Truths (including a description of the eight-fold path--which I won't list out or my review will be entirely to long!)Meditation PracticeI currently live in a part of the world where there are many Buddhist temples and I wanted to have a little more appreciation for the guiding principles.  I'm sure I will pick up additional reading, but starting with this text was helpful.  I sincerely doubt this will provide any new insight to anyone who has done any study already, but for a person like me it is very interesting!Recommended!