Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Batchelor, Stephen

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Nelson, Bill

Description

xi, 381 pages : map; 25 cm

Summary

• "This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today's globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddha's vision of human flourishing"--Amazon.com.
• "Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts? Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, 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 Buddhism, the culmination of four decades of study and practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada traditions, 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. This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today's globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddha's vision of human flourishing."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Dharma (Buddhism)
• Buddhism > Doctrines

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

After Buddhism -- Mahānāma : the convert -- A fourfold task -- Pasenadi : the King -- Letting go of truth -- Sunakkhatta : the traitor -- Experience -- Jīvaka : the doctor -- The everyday sublime -- Ānanda : the attendant -- A culture of awakening -- Selected discourses from the Pali canon.

Call Number

JFE 15-7134

ISBN

• 9780300205183
• 030020518X
• 9780300224344
• 0300224346

LCCN

2015935009

OCLC

• 906878132
• 906878132

Author

Batchelor, Stephen, author.

Title

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

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Nelson, Bill, cartographer.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7134