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An Unconvincing Case Against Secular Buddhism
An anthology of critical essays gives its adversaries no chance to retort.
An anthology of critical essays gives its adversaries no chance to retort.
In an excerpt from Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition, scholar Sarah Shaw recognizes the value and potential pitfalls of secular interpretations of Buddhism.
Buddhist reflections on the secular
Anne C. Klein on the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism
Modern society has made a scapegoat of faith.
S. N. Goenka, leader of an enormously popular worldwide insight meditation (vipassana) movement, died on September 29 of natural causes in Mumbai, India. He was 90 years old. Goenka came from a family of Indian extraction, but was born in 1924 in British Burma, a Theravada Buddhist culture. Seeking a cure for his debilitating migraines, […]
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