310pp., xxi. Stated: "First American Edition 1999" with '1' in number line. Foreword by Jack Miles. Light gray boards with black backstrip and brilliant gilt lettering. 1 page had a 5/8" dog-ear and one page a 1 1/4" dog-ear (now flat), else essentially As New, looking unread. Tight spine (NO cracks); Sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); No rubbing wear; NO remainder mark. Clean text.

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Titel: The Monk and the Philosopher : A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Verlag: Schocken Books / Random House, New York
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0805241620
ISBN-13: 9780805241624
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1st Edition
Druck: 1st Printing
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

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Discuss consciousness, free will, the value of progress, the causes of war, and ways to approach living

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Jean-Francois Revel, a member of the Academie Francaise, was born in 1924. He studied and taught philosophy but abandoned university teaching to concentrate on writing. He was editor for many years of the influential political weekly L'Express. His books, including the best-seller Without Marx or Jesus and How Democracies Perish, have gained worldwide recognition.

Matthieu Ricard lives in the Shechen Monastery in Nepal. Born in France in 1946, he received his doctorate in molecular biology from the Institut Pasteur in Paris. In 1972 he decided to forsake his scientific career to better concentrate on his Buddhist studies, which he had begun years earlier. He has published Journey to Enlightenment, a book of photographs about his teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (one of the mos

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