{"title":"Author - Guruge, Ananda W.P.","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"1579","title":"Buddha's Encounters with Mara","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early Buddhist texts introduce us to a being called Māra who appears at critical junctures of the Buddha's career in order to deflect him from his mission. Māra is the Buddhist counterpart of Satan and represents the inseparable union of Desire and Death. The paper examines the various records of the Buddha's encounters with Māra in his role as the Tempter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnanda W.P. Guruge is a retired Sri Lankan diplomat and a scholar in the fields of Indology and Buddhist Studies. He is the author of over thirty books, the most recent a complete translation of the Sinhalese chronicle (The Mahāvaṃsa) and a biography of King Asoka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1958 and 2002, a total of 334 individual physical Wheel Publication booklets were published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS). Those 334 booklets included 468 essays, tracts, and monographs; many were published as double or triple volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThese classic Wheel booklets are not being reprinted; many are no longer available as single issues. We have the last print run in stock—the last existing physical booklets! If this specific Wheel No. is out of stock, please note that it won’t be restocked.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSee also: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/collected-wheels\"\u003eCollected Wheel Publications series (BPE)—Pariyatti Edition\u003c\/a\u003e (Free PDF available per volume)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFree PDF copies of individual booklets are available from the BPS website; some are \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bps.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elisted\u003c\/a\u003e, while others can be found via the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bps.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle search feature\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guruge, Ananda W.P.","offers":[{"title":"$25","offer_id":42108773924958,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$50","offer_id":42108773957726,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$75","offer_id":42108773990494,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$100","offer_id":42108774023262,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$15","offer_id":42108774056030,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$10","offer_id":42108774088798,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$5","offer_id":42108774121566,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$0","offer_id":42108774154334,"sku":"BPS:403419","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/403419.jpg?v=1760547717"}],"url":"https:\/\/pariyatti.org\/collections\/guruge-ananda-w-p.oembed","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}