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Copyright © 2015 by Ethan Nichtern
Foreword copyright © 2015 by Sharon Salzberg
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First edition, 2015
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Seth Freedman for permission to print the image in chapter 2.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nichtern, Ethan, author.
The road home: a contemporary exploration of the Buddhist path / Ethan Nichtern; foreword by Sharon Salzberg.—First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-374-25193-2 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-374-71196-2 (e-book)
1. Meditation—Buddhism. 2. Buddhism. I. Title.
BQ5612.N53 2015
294.3'444—dc23
2014030912