TABLE OF CONTENTS

       

  PREFACE

  METHODOLOGY

  CHAPTER ONE:  AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES

1.1)  Biographical Information

1.2)  An Overview of Batchelor’s Philosophical Project

  CHAPTER TWO:  THE CRITIQUES

2.1)  Bhikkhu Punnadhammo

2.2)  Bhikkhu Bodhi

2.3)  Urgyen Sangharakshita

  CHAPTER THREE:  BATCHELOR’S PHILOSOPHICAL PROJECT

3.1)  Batchelor’s Stance on Belief

3.2)  The Doctrines of Karma, Rebirth, and Enlightenment

3.3)  Batchelor’s Agnosticism

  CHAPTER FOUR:  BATCHELOR’S CULTURAL TRANSLATION

4.1)  Influences on Batchelor’s Cultural Translation

4.2)  Making Buddhism Accessible to Westerners

4.4)  Verses From the Center

4.5)  Success?

  CHAPTER FIVE:  A RETURN TO THE CRITIQUES

5.1)  Overview of Main Arguments

5.2)  Are the Critiques Defensible?

5.2.1)  Beliefs

5.2.2)  Scientific Materialism.

5.2.3)  Ethics  

  CHAPTER SIX:  DOES BUDDHISM STOP BEING BUDDHISM?

6.1)  Challenging Buddhism as a Religion

6.2)  Is Buddhism Still Buddhism?

  CONCLUSION

  BIBLIOGRAPHY  

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