Add to ORKGIn this paper, I will examine two intellectual traditions which are preserved in literature. The traditions I will examine are encoded in the writings of Jean Baudrillard, a French metaphysicist, and the teachings of the Buddha preserved within the Ti-Pitaka, or Pali Canon.These are two of the intellectual traditions that have become popular in Australia in the 1990s and their respective emergence raises important questions for me about the relationship between religion and contemporary thinking
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This book presents a new answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part 1 distinguishes between syste...
“THE END OF PHILOSOPHY” IN THE WEST AND BUDDHISMHilary Putnam says: “Whether we want to be there or ...
In recent years insight (<em>vipassana</em>) practice in Australia has diversified in content and sp...
By and large, modem societies have understood themselves to be increasingly without religion. This i...
While the paper is at an academic level, it is written in a way to be accessible to the average read...
This thesis addresses a major trend (what might be termed a “post-Buddhism”) within contemporary Wes...
Is Buddhism a philosophy or a religion? My answer to this much-asked question is that Buddhism is bo...
The author reminds us the outlines of Buddhist doctrine. Then he examines how a Buddhist reader coul...
Secular Buddhism is coalescing today in response to two main factors. First, it rejects the incohere...
Gregory Reflecting on the contemporary presentations of Buddhism within the Western context, particu...
A text, written in 2005 and first published in 2008, exploring the prevalence of non-dualist philoso...
In one sense, it seems that we live in an age of widely proliferating and seemingly omnipresent "pos...
The paper argues that ancient metanarratives (Adhika???ha) are relevant in\ud meeting out the crisis...
This paper proffers an example of a new form of religious dialogue. It subverts, rather than assumes...
In his recent book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist, Evan Thompson argues that inter-tradition or cross-cult...
This book presents a new answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part 1 distinguishes between syste...
“THE END OF PHILOSOPHY” IN THE WEST AND BUDDHISMHilary Putnam says: “Whether we want to be there or ...
In recent years insight (<em>vipassana</em>) practice in Australia has diversified in content and sp...