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Wake Up

Wake UpA Life of the Buddha

Written by

Jack Kerouac

Narrated by

Danny Campbell

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Edition:
Unabridged (Penguin Audio)
Length:
5 hours, 13 minutes
File Size:
143 MB (5 files)
Published:
September 2008

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Summary

In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in books such as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac’s retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment.

Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.

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