Customer Reviews
Real live superheros - By: Sarakani, 21 Jan 2001 
People who can fly, walk on water, multiply themselves or have x-ray vision are usually associated with comic books. According to Buddhist teachings, these powers are accessible to those who can perfect their concentration. Apart from including biographies of some individuals credited with the above sorts of psychic abilities, it also has equally gripping accounts of the more ordinary aspects of these & many other disciples of the Buddha most of whom became enlightened. It is thus an account of the principal individuals after the Buddha who were supposed to have finished everything that needs accomplishing with no further burdens or debts to pay having gained superknowledge.
The book includes several self contained short biographies, mainly by the Germans Helmuth Hecker & the late Ven Nanyaponika. It is sadly short on details on the great female disciples. Perhaps more room can be created later.
A must for anyone inspired by Buddhism & the potentiality of the human mind for lasting freedom.
Great Book. Brings a lot of hard to find material together. - By: , 24 Aug 1999 This book saves everybody a lot of searching around. It covers the main Disciples of the Buddha plus a number of Disciples not particularly well knownin the Buddhist Lay Community, every Monastic I know who has read it, applauds it.
