If I wanted to get my mom a book on buddhism for Christmas, what would be a good choice? I would prefer an ancient primary text but it has to be comprehensible for an uneducated menopausal possibly-milf believer of quack past life regression therapy.

>>7460827
uhhh....

>>7460827

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. Its slightly biased in favor of the authors particular sect/school but still does a pretty good job of concisely and clearly explaining the essentials of Buddhism while using a lot of quotes from the Pali Canon as evidence. Its also close to 100 pages with large type so its an easy read.
Also

>milf

post a pic

>>7460817
>Laws of Manu
Buddhism?

You're doing it wrong, dear anon.

>>7461193
You're correct, the Buddha opposed Vedic religion. He opened a strong camp against it and freed people from the exploitative teachings of Veda. He expounded equality as opposed to the Vedic teachings which discriminated between different classes.

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>>7460827

Literally Hinduism. Buddhists don't wear tilakas.

>>7460827
start with the Greeks

>>7463703
>pic related is the Manusmrti
Lol OP could have at least tried

>>7460827
I don't know about those "past life experiences" people have been having, but I did use buddhist meditation techniques to probe my earliest memories. It was like dusting off old neural pathways. Someone on /lit/ even recommended me the text I followed, it was called Mindfulness in Plain English.

>>7464053
>but I did use buddhist meditation techniques to probe my earliest memories.
What did you do?

>>7464087
Nothing special. I have been practicing vipassana meditation and instead of physical phenomenon, I directed it to my earliest memories where I probed for some time until I had completely uncovered all my earliest most primitive memories. Nothing of importance, really, but it was an interesting experience.

>>7464112
That's really interesting. Thanks.