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Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist Stephen Batchelor ebook
Page: 421
Format: pdf
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
ISBN: 0385527063, 9780385527064

Batchelor\'s Buddhism Without Beliefs (1997) described a secular approach to the Eastern philosophy stripped of doctrines such as karma and rebirth; how a young British monk ordained in the. Brief book review of Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. In his book Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, Stephen Batchelor recounts an interesting story about Ling Rinpoche… Kyabje Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche. Can one be a Buddhist without believing in karma, the gods, and the cycle of death and rebirth? I have been reading an article in The Guardian, The new Buddhist atheism, by Mark Vernon, discussing the publication of a new book, Confession of a Buddhist atheist, by Buddhist practitioner and scholar Stephen Batchelor. May have to crank up the snow blower. Stephen Batchelor's "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist": Book Review. At eighteen, this drop-out joined the Dalai Lama. (my main resource for this information comes from my interpretation and paraphrasing of Appendix I: The Pali Canon in Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist). I'll grant that Buddhism as a "religion" is not very appealing and I am repulsed by the fluffy, new age aspects, but if you check out a few choice Gil Fronsdal podcasts or Stephen Batchelors book: "Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist" you may get a better understanding of why many As an amateur and fence sitter - I don't feel qualified to discuss this too deeply, but as a skeptic and atheist, I still find a lot to admire in the philosophy and practices arising from Buddhism. That is the question that Stephen Batchelor sets out to answer. Reading Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist is likely to have an irreversible impact on your image of the historical Buddha. In his new book, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. This post is Part Three in a series concerning Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist (here is a link to a list of Batchelor's publications at his website). I just finished Stephen Batchelor's "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist" and am impressed by his writing style. Excerpt from the book by Stephen Batchelor. To set it up, he was a hippie in the early 70′s, traveling through the Middle East, and found himself becoming a Buddhist monk for a time.