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Title: Alone With Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor ISBN: 0-8021-5127-2 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Existentialist buddhism, or modernist zen trend?
Comment: I sense the author is just pushing his own view on buddhism (or... existentialism) through this book: this is not a study of the crossroads between buddhism and existentialism, but the author's own view on buddhism expressed in the terms of existential thinking.
St. Batchelor in this book holds a view about buddhism very much close to that of contemporary Vietnamese zen buddhism. They see the world as manyfold manifestations all sprung from one unique universal 'tank' ('alaya vijnana'); consequently they hold the view that all things and beings in this universe are linked together in complete solidarity. This is one view: but this is not really essential either to buddhism or to existentialism. It also seems to me somewhat oversimplified as a moral and as a cosmic hypothesis. Personal responsability and gratuitous compassion are closer to ancient, theravada buddhism.
Anyway, I much preferred--and would recommend--the same author's "Buddhism without belief" as a contemporary, 'modernist' approach to the ageless and visionary wisdom of buddhism!
Rating: 4
Summary: Complex and philosophical, not for everyone
Comment: If you are familiar with existentialism and buddhism, and you would like to read about their relationship, this book is great. But I would not recommend one to read this book for an introduction to either Buddhism or existentialism. For an introduction to Buddhism, I recommend Bachelor's other book, "Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contempory Guide to Awakening". To learn more about existentialism, I would recommend reading the philosophy of Albert Camus.
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Title: The Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty by Stephen Batchelor ISBN: 0938077228 Publisher: Parallax Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening by Stephen Batchelor ISBN: 1573226564 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Meditation for Life by Martine Batchelor, Stephen Batchelor ISBN: 0861713028 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime by Nagarjuna, Stephen Batchelor ISBN: 1573228761 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Living With the Devil: A Buddhist Meditation on Good and Evil by Stephen Batchelor ISBN: 1573222763 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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