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READ AT NO COST ON OPEN ACCESS: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/a-critique-of-western-buddhism-ruins-of-the-buddhist-real/ 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 shored up against in contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism. The author's critique of Western Buddhism is threefold. It is immanent, in emerging out of Buddhist thought but taking it beyond what it itself publicly concedes; negative, in employing the “democratizing” deconstructive methods of François Laruelle's non-philosophy; and re-descriptive, in applying Laruelle's concept of philofiction. Through applying resources of Continental philosophy to Western Buddhism, A Critique of Western Buddhism suggests a possible practice for our time, an "anthropotechnic", or religion transposed from its seductive, but misguiding, idealist haven.
Buddhist Studies Review
Review: A Critique of Western Buddhism2023 •
Reviewed by Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton University
2022 •
East Asian Journal of Philosophy
Dynamic Encounters between Buddhism and the WestContents -Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West Introduction Laura Langone & Alexandra Ilieva 1-6 -Early Encounters With Buddhism Some medieval European travelogue authors offer first insights into a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory Albrecht Classen 7-24 -Declaring Buddhism Dead in the 19th Century The Meiji oligarchy and protestant mission in Japan a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory Tomoe I. M. Steineck 25-45 -Between Awakening and Enlightenment The first modern Asian Buddhist and the first Buddhist Englishman Iain Sinclair 47-73 -Sublime Disappearances Feeling Buddhism in late-nineteenth-century Western music Julian Butterfield 75-93 -Absolute Nothingness and World History Universalizing Asian logic as a world-historical mission Niklas Söderman 95-113 -Befriending Things on a Field of Energies With Dōgen and Nietzsche Graham Parkes 115-137 -Wabi-Sabi and Kei How Sen no Rikyū’s Zen-inspired ideas of human placedness and interpersonal respect enable a human-present world-harmonizing (Wa) within object-oriented ontology Jason Morgan 139-157 -The Question Concerning Technology A Japanese reply Tiago Mesquita Carvalho 159-187 -Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonian Approaches to the Skeptical Way of Life Christopher Paone 189-209 -Two Paths A critique of Husserl's view of the Buddha Jason K. Day 211-232
Religion
Buddhism in the Modern World2012 •
Review of book edited by David L. McMahan, Routledge: London and New York, 2012, xiv + 329 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 78014 8, US$125.00 (cloth); ISBN 978 0 415 78015 5, US$39.95 (paperback).
Engaged Buddhism’s overall mission is to show that Buddhism can be “a force to soften the damage caused to the human spirit by the onward march of globalization. ” This paper examines propositions put forward by three of the most influential contemporary Engaged Buddhists – Thich Nhat Hanh, Sulak Sivaraksa and the Dalai Lama – for changing the course of contemporary globalization. With a geographical focus on South East Asia, it first explores the theoretical and practical propositions Engaged Buddhism offers for resolving and preventing armed and religious conflicts. It further lays out Engaged Buddhism's answer to the global economic crisis, stressing the importance of giving a voice to the voiceless in our system, and to reform the current educational systems and the content they propagate. It will be shown that the movement of Engaged Buddhism is a strong advocate for more sustainable lifestyles, seeing nature and humanity as one inseparable entity.
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In here, there are two studies which try to problematize the philosophical relation between Buddhism and Western culture, especially through figures from history of philosophy. With this problematization, which takes in a comparative and fusionist manner, it is aimed to see whether it is possible to create some new insights on rather well-known philosophical themes or not. The main enterprise is first to cover the issues at hand historically and contextually, and later to open up new and thoughtful discussions which might be overlooked within curent philosophical consensus. First study examines the famous non-self or no-self discussion in Hume and Buddhism. When Hume’s understanding of empiricism is handled, his ideas towards human self are usually narrated with the phrase of bundle theory of the self. This understanding of him, allegedly, has shown a similarity with the term of Anattā from Buddhist teaching which mentions that there is no permanence or unchanging substance in existence and beings. With this comparative reading, how much Hume’s opinions are related to Anattā is opened up to debate with problematizing the concepts like sameness, difference and similarity. Second study examines the notion of sleeplessness as it is understood and portrayed in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Buddhism. It tries to clarify the philosophical importance of this notion both in Nietzsche’s works, especially focusing on his Zarathustra, and in Buddhism through a comparison between these two. With centering Nietzsche’s relation with Buddhist thought, the study aims to explain how the notions like sleeplessness, sleeping, lucidity, meditation, deep sleep, awakening, enlightening, wakefulness etc. are considered, and in which contexts they are problematized.
The metaphysical implications of the Yogācāra-Vijnanavada 'consciousness-only' school of Buddhist psycho-metaphysics has become an issue of some debate amongst some Western philosophers with an interest in Buddhist philosophy. The 'canonical' view amongst many significant scholars is that, as the name suggests, this perspective asserts that the ultimate nature of the process of reality is nondual primordial consciousness/awareness. On this 'Idealist' view the external apparently material world is considered to be a mind-created illusion. However, some contemporary Western philosophers are offering seemingly more materialist, or non-committal as to the existence of an external material world, versions. This article examines such claims and exposes their deficiencies. A quantum-Mind-Only Yogācāra-Vijnanavada perspective is explored.
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This paper will consider how the secularising and psychologising of Buddhism has encouraged and enabled an almost seamless assimilation of mindfulness into a consumerist, neoliberal ideology and framework – leading to the emergence of a distinctly neoliberal mindfulness (Purser et al. 2016). In particular, I wish to consider the language of mindfulness, and how in the wrong mouths, this can disempower individuals as opposed to liberating and awakening them - as originally prescribed in the Buddhist Sutras (scriptures). In the conclusion, I wish to consider how Buddhism in America is becoming more politically and socially engaged, in order to appropriately address and respond to the warning of the eminent Buddhist monk, translator and activist Bhikkhu Bodhi: ‘… absent a sharp social critique, Buddhist practices could easily be used to justify and stabilise the status quo, becoming a reinforcement of consumer capitalism.’ (Bodhi quoted in Eaton 2013)
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