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Review title: Highly disappointing
Product review: Although the author has the requisite academic credentials, she is tone-deaf where Buddhism is concerned. This book reads like something written in the early 20th century, when studies of Buddhism were entirely overlayed with Western philosophical preconceptions. A much better life of the Buddha is Sherab Chodzin Kohn's "The Awakened One: A Life of the Buddha."Armstrong's main contribution is to situate Buddhism in the context of the yoga movement that was in full swing when the Buddha lived. But she is so unreliable in discussing the essentials of both Buddhism and yoga that only serious practitioners will be able to see through her Western academic filter.The biggest annoyance of this book is the author's insistence on using Pali spellings of Buddhist terms that are generally known in Sanskrit. This just makes the book harder to read. Unfortunate.
