{"title":"Author - Hecker, Hellmuth","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.heckerDescr {line-height: 150%; font-size: 13px;}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"heckerDescr\"\u003e\nDr. Hellmuth Hecker is a well known German writer on Buddhism. His many works include a partial German translation of the Saíyutta Nikaya, essays on the main disciples of the Buddha (published in Great Disciples of the Buddha), works dealing with various aspects of the Buddha's teaching, as well as works on the history of Buddhism in Germany.\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1625","title":"Buddhist Women at the Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the original BPS Wheels in the \"Lives of the Disciples\" series. The entire series has now been collected in the book \u003ca href=\"\/products\/2371\"\u003eThe Great Disciples of the Buddha\u003c\/a\u003e. First published in the German magazine 'Wissen und Wandel' in the 1970s, these stories have been translated from the German by Sister Khema.\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! 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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":"Hecker, Hellmuth","offers":[{"title":"$0","offer_id":42108791586910,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$5","offer_id":42108791619678,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$10","offer_id":42108791652446,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$15","offer_id":42108791685214,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$25","offer_id":42108791717982,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$50","offer_id":42108791750750,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$75","offer_id":42108791783518,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$100","offer_id":42108791816286,"sku":"BPS:403115","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/403115_dffe1898-6125-40de-b325-f78533217fe8.jpg?v=1760547813"},{"product_id":"1732","title":"Maha Kassapa: Father of the Sangha","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife of the disciple best known for his meditative powers.\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the original BPS Wheels now collected in one book, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003eGreat Disciples of the Buddha. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1958 and 2002, a total of 334 individual physical Wheel Publication booklets were published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS). 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Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the material in these stories has never before been assembled in a single volume. Through these engaging tales, we meet all manner of human beings rich, poor, male, female, young, old whose unique stories are told with an eye to the details of ordinary human concerns. If read with careful attention, these stories can sharpen our understanding of the Buddhist path by allowing us to contemplate the living portraits of the people who fulfilled the early Buddhist ideals of human perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhile in recent years in the West oceans of ink have been expended on books dealing with the Buddha and his Teaching, the first two of the Jewels of Buddhism, the coverage given to the third Jewel, the Sangha, has been far from adequate. This book is an attempt to fill this gap in Western Buddhist literature with living portraits of twenty-four of the most distinguished disciples of the Buddha. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book evolved from a series of individual tracts which are known as the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003eLives of the Disciples\u003c\/span\u003e series from the Buddhist Publication Society's well known \"Wheel\" imprint. The first of these small biographies to appear, in 1966, was written by Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, the founder of the BPS. In the same year, by coincidence, the German Buddhist author Hellmuth Hecker began publishing short biographical portraits of the great disciples in the German Buddhist periodical \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003eWissen und Wandel\u003c\/span\u003e. Over the next twenty years, forty-one such short profiles appeared in German.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVen. 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This book offers the reader through the use of these similes an opportunity to widen and deepen one's understanding of the Teaching of the Buddha. Dr. Hellmuth Hecker is a well-known German writer on Buddhism. His many works include a partial German translation of the Saṃyutta Nikaya, essays on the main disciples of the Buddha (published in Great Disciples of the Buddha), works dealing with various aspects of the Buddha's teaching, as well as works on the history of Buddhism in Germany..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hecker, Hellmuth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101553659998,"sku":"BPS:404427","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/404427.jpg?v=1760548125"},{"product_id":"6494","title":"Great Disciples of the Buddha (Indian edition) - Softcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to take a look inside\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780861718641'); \u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisdompubs.org\/book\/great-disciples-buddha\/preface\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView online selections from this book at Wisdom Publication's website.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eTwenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. 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Nyanaponika translated or oversaw the translation of this series into English and published the series of BPS Wheels in the 1970s and 1980s. 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