Pain and Its Ending
Subtitle: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon (Buddhist Tradition)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Published: January 2001
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9788120818064
Subjects: Buddhism
First sentence: The story of Gautama Buddha's enlightenment is known well to students of Buddhism: it is set in Deer Park at Isipatana near ancient Brnasi, the audience is comprised of five religious seekers with whom the Buddha once travelled in his search for release from the cycle of rebirth and death in samsara, and it is to these men that the Buddha announced that he had attained enlightenment.