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After Buddhism : rethinking the Dharma for a secular age / Stephen Batchelor.

by Batchelor, Stephen.

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Yale University Press, [2015]

Gautama Buddha -- Teachings.

Dharma (Buddhism)

Buddhism -- Doctrines.

9780300205183 (hc.)

030020518X (hc.)

xi, 381 pages : map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index.

Preface -- After Buddhism -- Mahānāma: The Convert -- A Fourfold Task -- Pasenadi: The King -- Letting Go of Truth -- Sunakkhatta: The Traitor -- Experience -- Jīvaka: The Doctor -- The Everday Sublime -- Ānanda: The Attendant -- A Culture of Awakening -- Afterword -- Selected Discourses from the Pali Canon -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Stephen Batchelor is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha's teachings. The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age. After four decades of study and practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada traditions, this is his attempt to set the record straight about who the Buddha was and what he was trying to teach. Combining critical readings of the earliest canonical texts with narrative accounts of five members of the Buddha's inner circle, Batchelor depicts the Buddha as a pragmatic ethicist rather than a dogmatic metaphysician. He envisions Buddhism as a constantly evolving culture of awakening whose long survival is due to its capacity to reinvent itself and interact creatively with each society it encounters. Stephen Batcheloris a British author, teacher, and scholar, writing books and articles on Buddhist topics and leading meditation retreats throughout the world. He is a noted proponent of agnostic or secular Buddhism"--Provided by publisher.

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