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oapen-20.500.12657-458502023-02-01T09:32:41Z A Critique of Western Buddhism Wallis, Glenn Religion Buddhism Rituals & Practice bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRE Buddhism::HREP Buddhist life & practice What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally against contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism. 2020-12-24T04:05:16Z 2020-12-24T04:05:16Z 2018 book 9781474283557 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45850 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781474283571.pdf 9781474283564.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474283557 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bloomsbury Academic Knowledge Unlatched open access
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What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally against contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism.
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