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The Western world is becoming more and more interested in the wisdom of the East and many people are learning to appreciate the teachings of the Buddha, whose message is as applicable in today's world as it was when he lived two and a half thousand years ago. The author of this book says "I want the stories of the Buddha's ministerial life to tell of his teachings in the circumstances in which it was actually given - not as abstract philosophy to scholars but to suffering men and women. "Here Marie Byles draws for us a vivid picture of a man with a very lively sense of humor, with a sun-like compassion which few could resist. This is the Buddha his disciples knew. Everything about the narrative, told through the lips of the disciple Yasa, has a relevance to life.Although written as the experience of one of the Buddha's disciples, with a beautiful simplicity, the book is nonetheless a work of scholarship, and at the end of each chapter a list of sources is given. Sir Lalita Rajapakse, former Minister of Justice in Ceylon, has written the foreword. By making her own pilgrimage to the principal places of his ministry, Marie Byles has proved herself to be as true a disciple as the men and women who followed directly in the steps of Gautama the Buddha across the hot plains of India and up into the pure air of the lofty Himalayas.