{"product_id":"2940013084926","title":"Parsifal - A Drama Wagner w\/ Direct link technology (A Classic Drama)","description":"The criticism has sometimes been made that the basic religious idea of Parsifal is Buddhistic rather than Christian; that it is taken directly from the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who was perhaps as nearly a Buddhist as was possible for an Occidental mind to be; that the dominating idea in Parsifal is compassion as the essence of sanctity, and that Wagner has merely clothed this fundamental Buddhistic idea with the externals of Christian form and symbolism. This criticism is ingenious. It may also suggest that all great religions in their essence have much which is akin. But no one who reads carefully Wagner's own letters during the time that he was brooding over his Parsifal can doubt that he was trying in this drama to express in broadest and deepest way the essentials of Christian truth. Christianity has no need to go to Buddhism to find such a fundamental conception as that of an infinite compassion as a revelation of God.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079181123824,"sku":"2940013084926","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013084926_p0.jpg?v=1763576678","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013084926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}