After Buddhism
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After Buddhism
The consummate guide to 'After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age' by Stephen Batchelor, this humorous easy to read book offers a fresh and accessible commentary on 'After Buddhism' without compromising the depth of Batchelor's experience, scholarship and ideas. Astute questions encourage readers to reflect on their lives.
Each time the teachings of the Buddha have entered a new culture outside their Indian birthplace, they have to undergo renewal and reinterpretation so as to gain traction in the new host society. Stephen Batchelor's work represents a landmark in Buddhism's sinking roots in the modern west, and his After Buddhism is his most systematic contribution to the process. What is being left behind by the 'after' in the title are conventional accounts of the teachings, not their true beating heart.
After Buddhism: a workbook is the consummate guide to this thought-provoking work. It provides a basis for periodic group and individual study of Batchelor's text. Winton Higgins's humorous, easy-to-read book offers a fresh and accessible commentary on After Buddhism without compromising the depth of Batchelor's experience, scholarship and ideas. Jim Champion's astute questions encourage readers to use Batchelor's reissue of the Buddha's teachings to reflect more deeply on the lives they're leading, the individuals they're becoming and the world we inhabit.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780473445171
Publisher: Tuwhiri Project Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2018
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Tuwhiri Project Ltd
Contributors:
- Contributions by Ramsey Margolis
- Contributions by Jim Champion
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 142
About the Author
A senior teacher for Sydney Insight Meditators and three of its constituent local sanghas, and for Secular Buddhism in Aotearoa New Zealand, Winton Higgins began practising the dharma in 1987, and has taught insight meditation since 1995, including leading residential retreats. Since 2005, his teaching has increasingly focused on non-formulaic forms of insight meditation, and secular Buddhism. Jim Champion specialised in theoretical physics to PhD level, and then trained as a secondary school teacher. In 2004, he returned to Hampshire to teach Physics. He is a member of the Middle Way Society and the international online community Re Collective. Ramsey Margolis, who conceived, shaped and nurtured this book, first experienced meditation in 1995 and has run meditation groups in Wellington, New Zealand, from 2000. In 2009, Ramsey set up Aotearoa Buddhist Education Trust and currently chairs the board. A year later, he launched secularbuddhism.org.nz and in 2011 set up Wellington's secular dharma practice community Simply Meditation (now One Mindful Breath) where he teaches meditation and secular Buddhism runs courses, and mentors individual practitioners
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