The Legendary Life of Shakyamuni Buddha

A Psychotherapist’s Journey Through the Buddha’s Life Story

Walk through Siddhartha Gautama’s life while exploring what his journey reveals about suffering, attachment, fear, and awakening.

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Language

English

Length

169 pages

Series

Buddha Meets Psychology

ASIN

B0H6PZP52W

About This Book

This book follows the Buddha’s story from Lumbini and the Four Sights through renunciation, ascetic practice, awakening beneath the Bodhi tree, decades of teaching, and his final passing. The life story becomes a path for examining the reader’s own inner world.

Writing from the perspective of a psychological counselor who retraced key places in the Buddha’s journey, LiaoHuishan translates ancient events into questions of modern psychological life: why insight may fail to change us, how extremes keep us trapped, and what genuine awakening asks of a human being.

What You Will Explore

The Buddha’s birth, sheltered youth, Four Sights, and renunciation
His years of asceticism and discovery of the Middle Way
The confrontation with Māra and awakening beneath the Bodhi tree
The Four Noble Truths viewed as diagnosis, cause, possibility, and path
How the Buddha’s life illuminates modern suffering and self-created illusion

Who This Book Is For

Readers who prefer a human story to an abstract textbook
People interested in Buddhist history and psychology together
Anyone who understands many ideas intellectually but still feels caught in old patterns

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a biography of the Buddha?

It is a life narrative, but it also interprets each stage through questions of suffering, attachment, psychological change, and awakening.

Is prior Buddhist knowledge required?

No. The book is written for general readers and explains the journey in accessible language.

Which stages of the Buddha’s life are covered?

The story moves from his birth and protected youth through renunciation, asceticism, awakening, teaching, and final release.

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Meet the Buddha first as a human being who faced suffering—and found a path through it.

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