After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age by: Batchelor, Stephen
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2nd Pr., 2015, 381 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is an 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 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. Clean copy. Record # 34111
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