title: A Summary of Buddhadharma
author: Michael S. Wolf
description: Michael S. Wolf was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1948. He attended Webb School (Bell Buckle, Tennessee), Stanford University, and Louisiana State University Law School. He has practiced law in Louisiana and other American jurisdictions since 1973. His earliest spiritual training consisted of Catholicism, eventually supplemented by the Christian Yoga of J.-M. Dechanet, the Joyous Cosmology of Alan Watts, and the Fourth Way of G. I. Gurdjieff. Since the early 1970s Wolf has been a student of buddhadharma, drawing his main influences from the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and from the Soto Zen tradition of Japanese and Chinese Buddhism. His main dharma teacher is Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery, located in Woodstock, New York. Wolf resides in Baton Rouge with his wife, Lessie Johnson. They have a grown daughter, and they are trying to age gracefully as Wolf pursues literary and legal projects and carries on a long-running campaign for civic and ideological reform.
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  Pitchstone Publishing
  
  
  Durham, North Carolina
  
  
  [www.pitchstonebooks.com](http://www.pitchstonebooks.com)
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Chris Matheson
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  Printed in the USA
  
  
  **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**
  
  
  Names: Matheson, Chris, author.
  
  
  Title: The Buddha’s story / Chris Matheson.
  
  
  Description: Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2020] | Summary:
  “A humorous take on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, imagined as an
  autobiography written by him, spanning from his birth to his eventual so-
  called extinction”—Provided by publisher.
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2019054124 (print) | LCCN 2019054125 (ebook) | ISBN
  9781634312004 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781634312011 (ebook)
  
  
  Subjects: LCSH: Gautama Buddha—Fiction. | Monks—India—Fiction.
  
  
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