101 Stories of Buddha

The journey of Siddhartha Gautama and 101 stories exploring anger, attachment, mindfulness, and how ancient Buddhist wisdom applies to modern, distracted life.

101 Stories of Buddha is a collection by Indian author Parvind Kumar tracing Siddhartha Gautama's journey from a life of privilege to his awakening beneath the Bodhi tree, and the teachings that followed. Across ten thematic sections, it explores the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, compassion and loving-kindness, anger and forgiveness, attachment, mindfulness, ego, karma, and impermanence.

The stories include kings, scholars, monks and ordinary people — a grieving mother searching for a mustard seed, an insult refused, a sick monk needing compassion — and a final section that carries these teachings into distinctly modern territory: traffic, social media, comparison, and information overload.

It is less a book to admire than one meant to be practiced — an invitation to notice what a reader is holding on to, and where compassion might replace anger.