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buddhist, tibetan, own, many and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 218 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 12 2020.
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Buddhism implies a doctrine and for centuries the various sects of buddhism has paid lipservice to the skepticism iconoclasm and openmindedness of buddhism while reciting their lineage to prove their authority prostrating themselves to statues requiring obedience to spiritual masters insisting their way is the right way and promoting metaphysical ideas that buddha gotama would have regarded as irrelevant distractions
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Batchelor is a breath of fresh air who cannot and should not be ignored
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Ignore what you are taught
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I am torn between two viewpoints regarding this book
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It strips away the accretions from history tradition and culture that have accumulated around the story of the historical buddha and the buddhist religion
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The author focuses on the here and now not the afterlife or some hoary notion of karma
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But therein lies the problem
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Another reviewer complained that the memoir part of this book does not belong together with the historical buddha part of this book
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