India's National Security

SATISH KUMAR

Taylor&Francis

India`s National Security: Annual Review 2014

Routledge India

India's National Security: Annual Review 2016-17

“A challenging story, beautifully written, most pertinent and relevant to our time.” —Deepak Chopra Not every book will change your life, but any book can. Not every discussion will make a difference, but a conversation can change the world. In this timely retelling of an ancient Buddhist parable, peace activist Satish Kumar has created a small book with a powerful spiritual message about ending violence. It is a tale of a fearsome outcast named Angulimala ("Necklace of Fingers"), who is terrorizing towns and villages in order to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace. One day he comes face to face with the Buddha and is persuaded, through a series of compelling conversations, to renounce violence and take responsibility for his actions. The Buddha and the Terrorist addresses the urgent questions we face today: Should we talk to terrorists? Can we reason with religious fundamentalists? Is nonviolence practical? The story ends with a dramatic trial that speaks to the victims of terrorism—the families whose mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters Angulimala has murdered. It asks whether it is possible for them to forgive. Or whether it is even desirable. No one can read The Buddha and the Terrorist without thinking about the root causes of terrorism, about good and evil, about justice and forgiveness, about the kind of place we want the world to be, and, most important, about the most productive and practical way to get there.

The Buddha and the Terrorist

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Algonquin Books

To prove it, Satish Kumar has invited eleven of those activists he most admires, in areas ranging from environmental change to human rights, to share their own inspiring stories, revealing who or what made them want to change the world - and what kind of world they want to help create.  Their illuminating and often moving life stories will inspire all of us to get off the couch and do something ourselves to help shape a better world.

Small World Big Ideas (Conscious Living)

Ivy Press

Once upon a time in northern india, there lived a violent and fearsome out caste called angulimala ('necklace of fingers'). He terrorized towns and villages in order to try to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace. The buddha set out to meet angulimala, and with the power of love and compassion he persuaded him to renounce violence and take responsibility for his past actions. Thus angulimala was transformed. The buddha and the terrorist brings a message for our time about the importance of looking for the root causes of violence, and of finding peaceful means to end terror. This revised edition includes a new prologue, 'talking to terrorists', in which satish kumar discusses how we can best deal with the phenomenon of international terrorism. About the author satish kumar was born in india. He has studied buddhism, and was for nine years a jain monk. He is editor of resurgence magazine and director of programmes at schumacher college. He is the author of two other books: no destination: an autobiography and you are, therefore i am: a declaration of dependence.

Wisdom Tree

The Buddha and the Terrorist ; The Story of Angulimala

The Viveka Foundation, a Centre for Alternative Perspectives

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