A critique of Western Buddhism : : ruins of the Buddhist real / / Glenn Wallis.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part One. Introduction: Raise the Curtain on the Theater of Western Buddhism! ; 1. The Snares of Wisdom ; 2. Specters of the Real ; 3. First Names of the Buddhist Real
- Part Two 4. Non-Buddhism ; 5. Immanent Practice
- Part Three 6. Buddhofiction ; 7. Meditation in Ruin
- Bibliography
- Index.