Standing Buddha statue at the Tokyo National Museum
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Buddhist Metaphysics
While some strands of Buddhism have very thick metaphysics, there are some forms with an extremely pragmatic orientation and a general focus on practices. Buddhism rejects that there is an all-powerful, all-knowing creator God. Continue reading Buddhist Metaphyics, Epistmology and Ethics
Standing Buddha statue at the Tokyo National Museum
© Darrell Arnold Ph.D.– (Reprinted with Permission)
Buddhist philosophy originates with Siddhartha Gautama. The Buddha’s life itself weaves an interesting philosophic narrative. According to tradition, he was born the son of a king in the Magda empire of Ancient India or present-day Nepal. He was raised a prince but eventually turned away from the life of politics that his father had envisaged for him in order to pursue a life of spirituality. Continue reading The Basics of Buddhism
Robert Wright is one of my favorite authors, and I have previously read his books: Continue reading Review of Robert Wright’s, Why Buddhism is True
Buddhism: In The Footsteps of the Buddha
(This is a summary of and commentary on a chapter in a book I often used in university classes: Thirteen Th
