1. Now in paperback. Ten bucks. Cheap!

2. “This collection proves that fear and trembling are human, but a sense of humor is divine.” -- O, The Oprah Magazine

3. Special bonus features: A Buddha-killing conversation with Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet; a guide for the scripturally perplexed… And much, much more! 

4. “Daring and delightful…Heretics and skeptics, as well as true-blue believers, will find Killing the Buddha refreshing, inspiring and downright invigorating.” -- Lauren Winner, Newsday

5. Pleasingly redesigned, newly accessible cover. Title now included!

6. “Killing the Buddha is perhaps the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road.” -- Publishers Weekly

7. Special offer for book clubs. If you give us your holy word of honor that you’ll lead a book group discussion about Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, we will send you a copy absolutely free. That’s right: Free! Or rather, out of our (the authors’) pockets, so please, only take advantage of this offer if you have a book group that will purchase more copies. We’re just as poor as you. Probably poorer. Just email KtB for more info [email link: contact@killingthebuddha.com] -- we’ll make it worth your while.

8. “Manseau and Sharlet see stories everywhere and nowhere, managing to maintain both healthy skepticism and rare hopefulness. An ambitious book in its scope and explicit desire not to find answers to the big questions, but to hone and shape the ways in which they are asked.” -- Forward

9. "A mix of hymn and history, poem and prophecy, story and sermon." -- Morning Edition

10. “Shot through with epiphanies and controversy.”-- Vanity Fair

11. “If there's one thing this pseudo-Christian nation needs, it's more deranged, slightly anarchic anecdotes of unique spiritual questing like Killing the Buddha.” -- San Francisco Gate

12. According to The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "This book is a mystical souffle, a sensual, cosmic marinade... It is book as quest and calling rather than text."

13. “Killing the Buddha is, without question, one of the most eccentric and fascinating books of the year…This much is reasonably certain: you're unlikely to have encountered anything before quite like it.”-- The Buffalo News

It really is a very good book.  Buy it now.

Still unconvinced? Wondering what you’ll get for your money?

Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible is an entirely original book that delivers the spiritual state of the nation in 13 dispatches that range from an apocalypse rancher in Texas to a prophet in pasties in Geneva, Illinois to a gangbanger’s tattoo parlor in East L.A. to a church caught in the ashes of Ground Zero. Interspersed with these chapters by KillingTheBuddha.com creators Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet are 13 specially-commissioned “revisions” of biblical scripture by our favorite Buddha killing writers, including Rick Moody, Francine Prose, Haven Kimmel, A.L. Kennedy, and many more.

The result is:

“A whip-smart… genuine stab at a saucy kind of spirituality that’s as bold as it is refreshing.” (New York Observer)

“A heartfelt meditation… an intriguing work that is unafraid of controversy.” (Denver Post)

“A book that literally defies ideology, denomination, and creed… Killing the Buddha tackles the big questions of our day without the moral smugness and arrogance that taints most discussions of spirituality.” (Baltimore City Paper)

“One of the best reads of the year.” (Southern Scribe)

“Marvelous.” (Booklist)

“Revelatory.” (Village Voice)

 “A weeping beauty of a book.” (The New Pantagruel)

“A brave book, indeed.” (Shambala Sun)

“Killing the Buddha gives us an America of mostly disorganized religion: a reassuring notion at a time when an evangelical coalition seems to control our government and Islamic fundamentalism, like some agitated behemoth writhing beneath us, threatens to topple everything. In a megacorporate, multinational, conspiracy-obsessed world, Killing the Buddha is a kind of antidote, rendering religion as a natural resource tapped by ordinary people in small, daily, idiosyncratic ways.” (Brooklyn Rail)

So what are you waiting for?

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