Leighton Pugh is fast becoming a widely-admired figure in the UK’s audiobook world. wth a very wide range of subjects. He recorded the Pepys Diaries unabridged for Naxos AudioBooks (116 hours!), 5000-1The Leicester City Story, Scarpia by Piers Paul Reid ; and for Dharma Audiobooks, The Life of the Buddha and for Ukemi Audiobooks The Sorrows of Young Werther.
THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHABy Bhikkhu Ñānamoli
Read by Hayward B. Morse and Leighton Pugh with Nicolette McKenzie, Jinananda and John Foley
16 hours 5 minutes
To do no evil deeds, to give effect to good, To purify the heart; this is the Buddha’s teaching.
Walking beside the Buddha. This unique biography, told in a lively manner through six ‘voices’, presents the Buddha’s revolutionary solution for humanity that lends to the end of ill will, craving and delusion. It goes back to the earliest sources of the Buddha’s life and teachings, drawing as it does from the Pali Canon which was said to record the words that the Buddha spoke, the events that happened, and his specific teachings on which the world-wide religion was based. It is an absorbing, edifying and even entertaining collection of reportage, myths, wisdom, kindness, human insight – and decisiveness. Continue Reading →
