In English, translated from the German. Title from Playaway label. "HDAUDIO." "Tantor Audio"--Container. Release date supplied by publisher. Previously released by Tantor Media, Inc., c2009. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. In container (21 x 13 x 3 cm.) One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback. Read by James Langton.
Summary:
Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferryman's apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth.
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