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Dale S. Wright, “What is Buddhist Enlightenment?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Dale S. Wright, “What is Buddhist Enlightenment?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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63 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
The words “Buddhism” and “enlightenment” are, at least in the West, tightly connected. “Everyone” knows that the goal–or at least one of the goals–of Buddhist practice is “enlightenment.” But what the heck is “enlightenment,” exactly? It’s a tough question, but Dale S. Wright takes it on in his aptly named book What is Buddhist Enlightenment? (Oxford University Press, 2016). Using a kind of Zen approach (my characterization, not his), Wright doesn’t slice and dice the concept in order to come up with some Platonic ideal of “enlightenment.” You won’t find any pithy definition of the idea in the pages of this book. Rather, you’ll discover a wide-ranging exploration of “Buddhist enlightenment”–what it has meant, what it now means, and what it might and even should mean in the future. Buddhists teach that everything is changing all the time, like it or not. So it is, Wright argues, with “Buddhist enlightenment.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Oct 4, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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