Departure of the Perfected One
Departure of the Perfected One Presenting vivid pictures of Gautama Buddha's life, teaching, suffering, death, and subsequent nirvāṇa, the Mahāparinibbānasutta is a principal Buddhist text. Beckh's…
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Departure of the Perfected One
Presenting vivid pictures of Gautama Buddha's life, teaching, suffering, death, and subsequent nirvāṇa, the Mahāparinibbānasutta is a principal Buddhist text. Beckh's translation of this important sutta achieved a quality and faithfulness based on decades of extensive study and meditation. In Hermann Beckh's words, it describes "one of the greatest human beings that ever lived, who stood at the threshold of the super-human--a teacher and leader of humanity."Prof.
The English rendering here--by Indologist andlong-standing Buddhist practitioner Dr Katrin Binder--is based on both the original Pālī and Beckh's German translation. From his academic and spiritual knowledge, Beckh added insightful editorial material, including an introduction, commentary, and notes. An afterword by Thomas Meyer--informed by Rudolf Steiner's