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Buddhism

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts) Thu Oct 23, 2014, 10:47 PM Oct 2014

Anyone read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse? [View all]

I recently got a copy of a new translation from 2007 with introduction and very interesting notes by Dr. Robert Thurman.

Siddhartha is supposed to be like Buddha, as I get out of it, but does not follow Buddha as he wants to find his own path to enlightenment.

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Anyone read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse? [View all] Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2014 OP

Yes. silverweb Oct 2014 #1

Oh hell yes... dhill926 Oct 2014 #2

I like that - "hell yes" SoLeftIAmRight Jan 2015 #5

years ago. barbtries Oct 2014 #3

Probably close to 50 years ago, so I can't say that I remember much about it, scarletwoman Oct 2014 #4

yes read it long ago in the 60s vlyons Jan 2015 #6

Hesse has one of those Poetic Licenses. MasonDreams Oct 2015 #7