And So… The Buddha Smiled: Poetry by Julian Bound

By Julian Bound

AND SO… THE BUDDHA SMILED by JULIAN BOUND

A poetry collection inspired by the Buddha's teachings.

With Buddha's guidance bringing peace to an estimated five hundred million devotees across the world, the poems found within this book can be seen as a path towards the comfort and solace a soul often seeks for within today's busy world.

• Karma
• Peace
• Love
• Meditation
• Compassion
• Impermanence
• Mindfulness
• Reincarnation
• Happiness

From the author of 'The Geisha and The Monk' and 'The Middle Way' -  National Geographic contributor and award winning documentary photographer Julian Bound.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in England, Julian is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. With photographic work featured on the BBC news, his photographs have been published in National Geographic, New Scientist and the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, with time spent studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and spiritual teachers of India's Himalaya region.

Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster for eighteen months whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations.

The author of novels 'The Geisha and the Monk', 'Subway of Light' and 'Life's Heart Eternal', when not on the road in Asia, Julian is based in the UK.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Julian Bound
• Release date: Feb 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393702115

Julian Bound

Born in the UK, Julian Bound is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. Featured on the BBC news, National Geographic and in the international press, his work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, spending time studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and with spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region. His photography work includes documenting the child soldiers of the Burmese Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab Spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and the Thailand political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok. With portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has photographed the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India. His other projects include the road working gypsies of India, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the rail track slums of Jakarta and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia. Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015, he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations. Julian has published  photography books of settings across the world, including portraiture work, and city guides, and has also published several poetry books, including ‘Haiku, a Journey Through the Deepest Emotions’, Julian is also the author of  the novels ‘The Geisha and the Monk’, ‘Subway of Light’ and ‘Life’s Heart Eternal’.

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Foreword

Born in 623BC in the city of Lumbini, southern Nepal on the border of India, it would be close to five hundred years until the words and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, were transcribed into the written word, having previously only been passed on orally by Buddhist monks following His death at the age of eighty years in the city of Kusinara, present day Kushinagar, northern India.

Composed into manuscript form in various Asian languages as Buddhism spread across the continents, early Buddhist texts were predominantly rendered in the Asian dialects of Pali and Sanskrit, which in turn would later be translated into Tibetan as well as Nepalese and Burmese adaptations of the Pali script in aid to promote the philosophies of Buddha-Dharma.

Meaning the principles of cosmic law and order, Dharma is readily applied to the mantle of the teachings of Buddha. Seen as instruction towards