Rabu, 01 November 2017

Buddha: Enlightened Warrior

In his youth Siddhartha Gautama was a brawny, six-foot warrior prince, trained in the art of war—and perhaps touched by tragedy. It is a curious fact of military history that the founders of three of the world’s four major religions were soldiers. The Torah tells of Moses, the founder of Judaism, whose tribal army plundered …

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