Der Buddhismus

Der Buddhismus (the German edition of Damien Keown's Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction) offers a compact overview of Buddhist history, doctrine, and practice for the general reader.

Keown, a scholar of Buddhist ethics, traces the tradition from the life of the historical Buddha through the development of its major schools — Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana — covering core concepts such as karma, rebirth, the Four Noble Truths, and meditation, along with Buddhism's spread across Asia and its more recent reception in the West.

Written as part of Oxford's Very Short Introductions series, the book favors precision and context over devotional or self-help framing.