TY  - SOUND
AU  - Hesse,Hermann
AU  - Langton,James
ED  - Tantor Media.
ED  - Playaway Digital Audio.
ED  - Findaway World, LLC.
TI  - Siddhartha
T2  - Unabridged classics
SN  - 9781615458516
AV  - PT2617.E85 S513 2010d
U1  - 833/.912 22
PY  - 2010///], c2009
CY  - [Solon, Ohio]
PB  - Playaway Digital Audio, [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
KW  - Spiritual formation
KW  - Buddhists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Audiobooks
N1  - In English, translated from the German; Title from Playaway label; "Tantor Audio"--Container; Release date supplied by publisher; Previously released by Tantor Media, Inc., c2009; Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player; In container (21 x 13 x 3 cm.); One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback; Read by James Langton
N2  - Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferryman's apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth
ER  -