Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough

Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough

Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists when he accompanied Alexander the Great to India in the third century BCE.

This volume explores striking parallels between early Buddhism and Pyrrhonian scepticism, suggesting their virtual identity. Both movements saw beliefs--fictions mistaken for truths--as the principal source of human suffering. Both practiced suspension of judgment about beliefs to obtain release from suffering, and to achieve enlightenment, which the Buddhists called bodhi and the Pyrrhonists called ataraxia. And both came to understand the structure of human experience without belief, which the Buddhists called dependent origination and the Pyrrhonists described as phenomenalistic atomism.

This book is intended for the general reader, as well as historians, classicists, Buddhist scholars, philosophers, and practitioners of spiritual techniques.

Alborough, Jez: - Jez Alborough is the author and illustrator of 48 picture books for children. His EDDY AND THE BEAR trilogy (which began with the much-loved WHERE'S MY TEDDY? in 1992) has sold almost 3 million copies and was made into a Bafta-winning animated television series. DUCK IN THE TRUCK heralded the start of another bestselling series, this time featuring Duck and his three friends - Frog, Goat and Sheep. There are currently nine books in the Duck series and 1.2 million copies have been sold. In 2000 Jez created HUG - a powerful and touching book of only three words about a baby chimpanzee called Bobo who loses his mum. Oprah Winfrey raved about it on her show when she chose it for her recommended reading list and Richard Curtis (the writer and director of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral') selected it as one of his 'Best Books' and called it 'classic family drama which holds up well next to Jez's other masterpieces.' Bobo went on to star in three more classics: TALL (which, along with Hug, won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award), YES and PLAY. The series has sold over 2.7 million copies.

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ISBN 13	9780064438339
ISBN 10	0064438333
Title	Duck in the Truck
Author	Jez Alborough
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harpercollins
Year published	2002-04-16
Number of pages	40
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