A Critique of Western Buddhism : Ruins of the Buddhist Real /

"What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary self-help industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallis, Glenn (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Series:	Online access: Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access.
Subjects:	Buddhism > Philosophy. Buddhist philosophy. Buddhism > Western countries. Continental philosophy. Bouddhisme > Philosophie. Philosophie bouddhique. Bouddhisme > Occident. Philosophie continentale. Buddhist life & practice. Buddhism. Religion > Buddhism > Zen. Religion > Buddhism > Rituals & Practice. Buddhism Buddhism > Philosophy Buddhist philosophy Continental philosophy Western countries Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Raise the curtain on the theater of Western Buddhism!
The snares of wisdom
Specters of the real
First names of the Buddhist real
Non-buddhism
Immanent practice
Buddhofiction
Meditation in ruin.