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lit_chick 's review for:
Intro to Buddha
by Jane Hope
I really liked this book on Buddhism, and I have to say, I'm not usually a fan of graphic novels and the like. It's a comprehensive little volume, with brief, illustrated blurbs on Buddhist history and practice. I felt like I got a lot out of it and will be keeping it around for reference.
The illustrations are really something, sometimes I feel like they do a better job of illustrating the concept than the copy, although the writing is really good, too. Hope, I think, does a fine job of distilling some of these more escoteric concepts and making them easier for a Western audience to digest. She also hand-picks stories from the tradition to punctuate her points. There's a short, annotated bibliography at the end of the book. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in learning more about Buddhism, I really enjoyed it.
The illustrations are really something, sometimes I feel like they do a better job of illustrating the concept than the copy, although the writing is really good, too. Hope, I think, does a fine job of distilling some of these more escoteric concepts and making them easier for a Western audience to digest. She also hand-picks stories from the tradition to punctuate her points. There's a short, annotated bibliography at the end of the book. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in learning more about Buddhism, I really enjoyed it.