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A review by vikramx
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor
5.0
A young British nomad/monk Stephen Batchelor autobiograhical rendition articulates probably the “true spirit” of Buddhism is this book as he journeys as a young 18 year old departing England through Europe and to the far east ; eventually ends up tracking the path of the Buddha to his last days as decades pass by .
Buddhism through the eons (predates all abrahamic religions) has been absorbed by each culture and now reduced to a splinter groups ( Tibetan - Theravada / Mahayana ) each affirming their interpretation holds the path to salvation ; and yet they are all plagued by dogmatic , authoritarian , misogynic propaganda which is synonymous with abrahamic religions .
In retrospection with Karen Amstrong’s version “The Buddha” ( Richard Gere narration) I see how flawed and heavily biased towards hinduism when compared to the original transcripts of the Buddha ; which in summary was an exuberance of rationalism and non-theistic in nature .
Buddhism through the eons (predates all abrahamic religions) has been absorbed by each culture and now reduced to a splinter groups ( Tibetan - Theravada / Mahayana ) each affirming their interpretation holds the path to salvation ; and yet they are all plagued by dogmatic , authoritarian , misogynic propaganda which is synonymous with abrahamic religions .
In retrospection with Karen Amstrong’s version “The Buddha” ( Richard Gere narration) I see how flawed and heavily biased towards hinduism when compared to the original transcripts of the Buddha ; which in summary was an exuberance of rationalism and non-theistic in nature .