Buddha or Bust -Perry Garfinkel

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Perry Garfinkel - free lance writer, for more than 30 years.

How the author land with this assignment are stuff made from dream - a proposal to National Geographic to trace the footstep of growth in Buddhism around the world, was accepted. A hefty budget expense not disclosed but must have been huge to last him the whole journey + all the logistic in each country he landed.), a round the world unlimited stop business class plane ticket.

300pages 2006.

An entertainting writer and light reading of a journey that takes the author to over 7 countries to discover the current state of Buddhism.. With so many sect and schools of Buddhism, it would have been difficult to cover all the schools. So, the journey is very much a snap shot , much like the financial information of a company can only be a snapshot of the company financial state at one point in time. It also focuses on engaged Buddhism ,defined by Christopher Queen - a lecturer of religion at Havard as application of the dharma or Buddhist teaching to resolution of social problem.