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“Wake up: a life of the Buddha” by Jack Kerouac
“A biography of the founder of Buddhism and a study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. It recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life.”
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See also:
http://libros.fnac.es/a153792/Jack-Kerouac-Wake-up
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2022030.Wake_Up
http://www.curledup.com/wakeupjk.htm
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Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)
Wake up: a life of the Buddha / prepared by Jack Kerouac; introduction by Robert A .F. Thurman. —London: Penguin books, 2008.
146 pages ; 20cm — (Modern classics).
ISBN 978-0-141-18946-8
1. Buddhism – Doctrines. 2. Buddha. I. Title. II. Thurman, Robert AF. III. Series.
BQ 882 .K47 2008
R. 96130000