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General Update (Garfield, ‘me’ and the Black Box)

January 18, 2015, 5:14 am

There are some developments worth mentioning. Mr. Pepper has reactivated his blog The Faithful Buddhist and intends to write a new series of texts “to develop [his] philosophical position in a...

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“Money is not our God”: Selling Spirituality

March 26, 2014, 4:42 pm

A scholar of Foucault and another of Orientalism combine to expose how deeply the market ideology of the 1980s and 1990s has infiltrated secular and economic contexts. They argue in this clearly...

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CT/SP Review at JBE

March 12, 2014, 4:05 pm

My review on Cruel Theory/Sublime Practice: Towards a Revaluation of Buddhism has been published at the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 21: 261-271. It is about the same length as my earlier review last...

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‘Cruel Theory/Sublime Practice’ reviewed

September 8, 2013, 10:15 pm

Cruel Theory/ Sublime Practice: Toward a Revaluation of Buddhism. By Glenn Wallis, Tom Pepper, and Matthias Steingass. Roskilde, Denmark: EyeCorner Press, 2013, 211 pages, ISBN 978-87-92633-23-1...

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The Buddha as counter-evolutionary

June 1, 2013, 4:50 pm

In The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (Yale U.P., 2012), Donald S. Lopez, Jr. investigates the past century and a half of how the West invents a Buddha in its own image with typical...

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